Well, this has been a great problem for every one of us who use their PC for many hours and complain to their buddies that their computer has slowed down and need to upgrade theirs.
There is no need to get into upgrade kinda stuff unless if you wished to go for a hardware hungry OS like Vista. If you are using Windows XP as your OS, then here are few tips to make it yield a optimum performance continuously.
Speed Start up:
After a few days of buying a PC, after you install some of the softwares which you use, your PC seems to take a lot more time to start than before. The reason for this is these newly installed softwares set themselves to start automatically on system start up and the loading of these programs consumes quite some time thereby increasing the start up time.
So forcing these kind of programs from running automatically during system start up is the only solution for this problem. How could be this done? Read on.....
Delete Temporary Files :
Temporary files are those which gets clustered in your system when you visit a webpage or you click on 'Open' on downloading something from the internet. As days pass by, these temporary files occupy hundreds of MB's of spaces or GB's at times which will degrade your system performance. So to keep your system for optimum performance and to protect your privacy you need to delete these temporary files.
How can this be done?
Well for this, you need to download a software named C Cleaner, formerly known as Crap Cleaner and whats more advantage is that it is FREE.
To download this software, Click here
What you have to do is to download, install and run this software. At the first page of the software click 'Run CCleaner' and there you go your system is free from crap.
Other features of this software are
Registry Cleaner - Delete unwanted registry keys of softwares from the system memory
Start up Manager - Disable unwanted programs from running on system start up. This seems to be a better option than the previously mentioned method.
Uninstall Manager - Uninstall programs that are no longer required or not installed properly. Add or Remove programs from control panel takes a hell of a time to load the installed softwares and this software has them preloaded and you need not to wait.
This software is compatible with Vista too and hence Vista users can also use this software to free up system space.
Other optimization techniques will be posted later. So keep checking.
There is no need to get into upgrade kinda stuff unless if you wished to go for a hardware hungry OS like Vista. If you are using Windows XP as your OS, then here are few tips to make it yield a optimum performance continuously.
Speed Start up:
After a few days of buying a PC, after you install some of the softwares which you use, your PC seems to take a lot more time to start than before. The reason for this is these newly installed softwares set themselves to start automatically on system start up and the loading of these programs consumes quite some time thereby increasing the start up time.
So forcing these kind of programs from running automatically during system start up is the only solution for this problem. How could be this done? Read on.....
- Click the START button of your taskbar and click on RUN. [ Shortcut: WINDOWS key + R button ]
- Type 'msconfig' [ without quotes ] and press enter
- In the newly opened window, search for the START UP tab and click it
- Under start up tab, you will see a lot of things with check boxes. The ticked or selected checkboxes contain those programs which are set to run on system start up. DESELECT those programs which you donot wish to run automatically and click APPLY and then OK
- Restart your system
Delete Temporary Files :
Temporary files are those which gets clustered in your system when you visit a webpage or you click on 'Open' on downloading something from the internet. As days pass by, these temporary files occupy hundreds of MB's of spaces or GB's at times which will degrade your system performance. So to keep your system for optimum performance and to protect your privacy you need to delete these temporary files.
How can this be done?
Well for this, you need to download a software named C Cleaner, formerly known as Crap Cleaner and whats more advantage is that it is FREE.
To download this software, Click here
What you have to do is to download, install and run this software. At the first page of the software click 'Run CCleaner' and there you go your system is free from crap.
Other features of this software are
Registry Cleaner - Delete unwanted registry keys of softwares from the system memory
Start up Manager - Disable unwanted programs from running on system start up. This seems to be a better option than the previously mentioned method.
Uninstall Manager - Uninstall programs that are no longer required or not installed properly. Add or Remove programs from control panel takes a hell of a time to load the installed softwares and this software has them preloaded and you need not to wait.
This software is compatible with Vista too and hence Vista users can also use this software to free up system space.
Other optimization techniques will be posted later. So keep checking.
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