Deal With The Issues That Slow Down Your Computer

In this article, the steps given below are for Microsoft Windows users that can help them speed up their computer or determine why the computer is running slow.

Try Rebooting Your Computer

If it’s been long you haven’t rebooted your computer, make sure to reboot it before you follow any of the steps below.

Stop Background Programs

One of the common reasons we have been noticing behind the computer’s slow performance are the programs running in the background.

We recommend you to remove or disable any of the TSRs and startup programs that usually itself start each time the computer boots.

Delete Temp (Temporary) Files

The temporary files are stored on the hard drive that can cause your computer to slow down. Deleting all of these temp files can surely help you to improve the performance of your computer.

You can start using the Windows Disk Cleanup utility to in order to erase temporary files and other unnecessary files no longer needed on your computer.

Note: Unluckily, the Disk Cleanup we suggested above do not guarantee to delete every file in the temp directory. Therefore, we also want to suggest removing temporary files manually.

Scan For the Viruses

If your computer has been infected with one or many viruses, this will undoubtedly cause your computer to run slow. If your computer has no antivirus programs installed, we recommend you to run the Trend Micro's free House-call online utility in order to scan for viruses that are jamming your computer. Also, it removes corrupted files and frees the disk space.

You should install an antivirus program for active protection against viruses.

Scan For Malware

These days, spyware and other malware are one of the significant causes of many computer issues such as a slow computer.

Even if you have installed an antivirus scanner on your computer, we would like to recommend running a malware scan on the computer. You can start using the free version of Malware-bytes for scanning your computer for malware on a daily basis.

Always Update Your Drivers

If your computer is troubling to work, ensure that you have the latest drivers for your PC hardware; especially the newest video drivers because keeping out-of-date drivers in your computer can cause an assortment of problems such as slow performance.

Focus on Hardware Issues

If you still find your computer slow after practicing all of the recommendations given above, your computer may have a more severe hardware related problems as like failing component in the computer.

Examples of failing hardware may contain a bad hard or failing drive, RAM, motherboard, CPU, or another component.

We suggest you run hardware diagnostic tests through an Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) utility. This utility is going to provide many of the diagnostic tests that you will be able to determine and run if your computer has got a bad piece of hardware.

Replace Old Computer

If you have a computer that is more than five years old, your computer age could be the reason behind its slow performance.

As more advanced software programs are being released every day, they are designed to be more optimized for running more powerfully on newer computers.

Thus, the older computers may not be able to run these of new programs as well, which can be a cause that they are performing more slowly.

We recommend you to consider it that you need to purchase a new computer; else you can accept that your computer is not going to be as faster as newer computers are.

We hope this article will help you deal with the issues that are slowing down your computer system.

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