delete pics and songs to speed it up?
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Shops want 50 dollars and up to clean your computer to make it faster,cant you delete pics and so forth yourse?
September 27, 2009
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If they charge you $50 to clean up your computer, you’re being ripped off – that’s 5 minutes of work.
If they’re charging you $50 to speed up your computer (assuming it was once faster), it’s a bargain. There are a few dozen things that can cause a computer to slow down – they have to diagnose the problem before they can fix it. (There’s no single "make my computer faster" solution, and "fixing" things that aren’t broken can actually cause more problems.) $50 for a day’s work is chicken feed, and fully diagnosing your problem and fixing it could take a few days, especially if you have all sorts of malware, your drive needs defragging, your registry needs defragging, etc. Just checking to see what’s wrong (not why it’s wrong and what to do to correct it) could take hours. "Slow" isn’t much to go on.
You could fill the hard drive to 95% of capacity and, if you filled it with just pics and songs, you wouldn’t notice a difference even in measured speed tests. There are bytes all over the disk – whether they’re part of a program or just fill bytes in unused sectors won’t affect performance one bit. (Fill the drive over 95% and you’re in trouble. Fill it to 100% and the computer is useless without another operating system to boot.)
here are some tips to speed up your computer:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10165_7-5554402-1.html
Your best bet would be to download spyware, malware and registry cleaners. There are a lot of free tools like this around the web. I personally use "CCleaner" for registry cleaning and "Spybot Search & Destroy" for spyware and malware removal. You can get both at download.com. Remeber to back up your registry (CCleaner gives you this option) and only run ONE AT A TIME. Also make sure you have your firewall and antivirus going all the time while using the internet. I use Zone Alarm and AVG free. Defragging might also help or you could always open task manager and turn off unwanted processes ONLY if you know what you’re doing.
Depending on how much memory u have and such it prob wont make a difference but, you could always do a disk cleanup and a disk defrag.. that would prob help alot..
Even when you delete things, they’re still fragments of them left on your hard drive. It takes up disk space & can cause your computer to run slow.
Unless you have a very, very small amount of hard drive space left, deleting your files will not make it faster. Usually, not having enough memory and having too many programs running will make your computer slower. If you take it to a shop, be sure to backup your stuff first just in case they mess it up.
Most computers actually run slow because of a hidden part of your system, which is constantly being used by Windows. This part of your PC is called the "registry" and is the central database for Windows, which stores everything from your latest emails to your desktop wallpaper. It’s one of the most important parts of Windows and can easily make your PC run slow.The more corrupt registry files your computer has, the more it struggles to read them.The files which makes it run slower and slower. To fix this, you simply need to use a registry cleaner http://make-computer-run-smoothly.com/ . These are small software tools which actually work by scanning through the registry and fixing any bad files that are in there. This then allows Windows to read as many files as it wants, when it wants to.