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My computer is 3.5 years old and is now VERY slow. What is the best way to fix it?
December 23, 2010
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Clean Registry and Optimize PC
Don’t buy another drive, do some maintenance on the ones you’ve got:
1) Delete any unused or unnecessary programs and files. These may be taking up space, memory and resources, thus slowing your computer. Also delete your cashe/ temp files, empty your recycle bin, clear your internet browsing history, etc.
2) Defrag your hard drive. Fragmentation severely degrades the speed, performance and reliability of your computer. Try Diskeeper 2008, you can download 30-day trial-ware at http://www.diskeeper.com
3) Registry cleaner: Your registry holds all the information regarding updates, installs, uninstalls etc. so this needs to be cleaned. This will optimize and remove redundant or unwanted items.
It sounds like your pc is just clogged up with redundant files and fragments. Delete your temp files daily, you can do this by hitting start>run>type: %temp% and right click to delete. Install a program to do your computer housekeeping, I use Ashampoo WinOptimizer, and it has a good registry and internet file cleaner, plus lots of other functions such as a file wiper which goes on your right click options, and it’s much better to use that than the recycle bin as it doesn’t get rid of deleted items properly, they will always be recoverable with the right software. I have the Ashampoo WinOptimizer2008 (Freeware) exe file, which I could mail to you if you like? Try that before you spend any money. Also, get Avast 4.8 Anti Virus (freeware) and configure it to do a boot time scan of your system just to make sure you don’t have any malicious code (root kit) in your root folders. There’s a new WinOptimizer 2009 available free with magazines like Computer Shopper and others.
at first try to change the CPU and Ram
and than try to change your motherboard cause sometimes the upgrade of cpu and ram not work without upgrade of motherboard
so try to change this 3 things.
hard dosnt fix that
i suggest upgrading your CPU and your Motherboard. A faster CPU will make operations go faster and a new motherboard for the new CPU
It isn’t the harddrive. It is the RAM or the CPU. I would need more info. If you want to, you can talk to me on aim daveoffy
My computer is almost 6 years old and running fine. But I keep it that way by weekly housecleaning and keeping the junk off the hard drive. Why do you have so much on a 200 G hard drive? Why can’t you take many gigs of stuff off there by:
A. Uninstalling and removing programs you no longer use
B. Backup your files and offload them to DVD’s or CD’s, assuming you have a burner for one or the other. Then delete the files remaining instead of adding another hard drive and expecting the RAM to handle more added stuff.
C. When was the last time you really cleaned up the computer? I run CCleaner weekly and clean out the cookies and temp files.
D. Do you have antispyware and have you updated it and cleaned your computer lately?
E. Get rid of something and download & install Auslogics Defragger, then defrag your hard disk. It surely needs it by now.
F. How much ram does your computer have and how much will the motherboard accept? Add RAM if at all possible. If you don’t know this, again, get rid of something so you can download & run Belarc Advisor, which will give you a complete scan of everything in and on your computer.
G. After you clean some things up, you need to run Microsoft’s Live OneCare Cleanup Scan, which will clean the registry of all the leftover junk you have in there.
Oh yes, all of these things are free, they just require some effort on your part to fix your computer
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.superantispyware.com/
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/center/cleanup.htm