Posts Tagged ‘computer performance’

postheadericon Why Does My Computer Freeze and How Do I Make it Run Fast Again?

Many people are asking why does my computer freeze on me. Waiting for a slow computer to finish every other task is definitely one of the most annoying things to do. Aside from the possibility of even losing data which you have not saved once your system crashes.

Not having enough memory is one of the most common assumptions of people. But this is usually not the reason for the slow speed and low performance of your computer. Try scanning the registry and then fix or clean up the things that are wrong in your registry.

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postheadericon Why is My Computer So Slow?

Your computer may have slowed down its execution speed below the expectation due to various reasons and complications. If your computer is running slower than usual and you are considering it to be inspected by a computer repair expert and spending money on getting your computer back to its normal level of performance, you should read about the common causes that make a computer slow.

While these issues may not be what’s causing your computer to run slowly, there is a chance that you can repair your computer without spending a single dime, instead a small investment of time and effort into looking at the following potential issues (please note that all of these issues concerns to PC/Desktop computers):

Has your Hard Drive reached its Maximum Capacity?

Hard drives with less than 500 Megabyte (MB) of free space on each partition (right-clicking the hard drive partition icon and navigating to the menu that displays the properties of your hard drive will give the free space estimation), can have a negative impact on the performance of your computer. Specially, less free space on the root partition where you have installed the operating system could lead to highly degraded performance.

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postheadericon The Bus Speed Guide : Introduction

The bus speed of modern Pentium and Pentium Pro systems is still a fairly neglected subject. If you want to know about the performance of a system, you always look first at the CPU speed. The higher the CPU speed, the faster the system – that’s how most computer users judge system performance. This is one reason why Cyrix had to invent the P-rating system, because without more information, why would a power user be interested in a 6×86 CPU running at only 133 or 150 MHz? This CPU/performance relationship is also responsible for the fact that Intel still is selling a fair number of Pentium 150′s, although they are barely faster than their cheaper brothers at 133 MHz. We read ’150′ and hence we think it has to be faster!

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postheadericon Keep Your Registry Clean To Maximize Computer Performance

Keep Your Registry Clean To Maximize Computer Performance

Keep Your Registry Clean To Maximize Computer Performance

In my last post, I gave a few tips to maximize computer performance. The major point I was trying to make is that even seemingly innocuous things like programs that automatically load when you start the computer can impact your computer performance. Clean Registry Means Fast Computer
If you’re sure that you’re not losing memory to programs that you don’t need, here are a few more tips that may speed up your computer.

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postheadericon Speed Up My Computer

What kinds of computer speed problems are you encountering?

1. The computer startup takes you a long time to enter the whole system. Sometimes you have to wait for more than 5 or 10 minutes when you try to use the computer urgently. It is really a bad experience for each PC user.

2. The speed of computer running is deathly slow. Whatever you are going to do such as playing games, running applications, surfing the Internet or even opening office files, your computer keeps freezing and takes long time to respond you. You have to restart PC time and time again.

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postheadericon Price check: How much to fix my laptop?

computercropMy PC is having some serious issues. It’s running way slow. It’s freezing up. And a couple of weeks ago I started getting “Your system has a virus!” pop-ups that just won’t go away. I’m not a techie, so where to take my decrepit machine for help? By decrepit, I mean a 2007 Gateway laptop. Tired of listening to my friends telling me to “just get a Mac already,” I decided to find out how much it would cost me for a professional diagnosis. I checked out Yelp for a list of computer repair shops, chose those with decent reviews and called for some quotes. Here’s what I got, and what I figured out in the end.

When I recited my computer-despair list, each shop offered basically the same thing: virus and spyware removal, anti-virus software installation (AVG unless otherwise specified), the vague “computer performance optimization,” and registry de-fragmentation (which I can’t explain to you but this guy can). I didn’t actually bring my machine to any of these places, so I can’t speak to quality-of-service—just to price. Here they are:

Compunet Advance Corporation, Sunset Park: 6216 Fifth Ave. between 62nd St. & 63rd St., 718-567-7660
Cost/Service $45 to remove viruses and spyware, and $65 to reformat, which basically erases everything, installs just the operating system so it’s like brand new. Which also means you lose everything that was on it.
How Long Same-day service, when you drop it off in morning. This one was a little less friendly than some of the others.

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postheadericon Clean Sweep Computer

A computer slows down due to various reasons, one of the factors that can slow down your computer are viruses that are in your system. These viruses can cause clogging to your system resulting to slowing down of your computer. Another thing that can slow down your computer are the errors in your registry. Whatever your case is it is best to clean sweep your system for a faster computer performance. A few minutes of cleaning your system will save you hours of slow productivity due to a slow performing computer.

The first thing you need to do is to perform a simple full system virus scan. Every antivirus has the ability to perform a system scan. A virus scan will tell you whether your computer is infected by a virus or not. These viruses are messing up with your computer that’s why you’re having a slowdown in your computer processes. Update you anti virus first with the latest database; this will make your anti viruses more updated from viruses’ threats. Run a full system scan and remove any infections detected by your anti virus and restart your computer.

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postheadericon Check Computer Performance on a Regular Basis

No one likes to deal with the maintenance of their computer; however it is important that you check computer performance on a regular basis. Your computer is a wise investment after all it provides you and your family access to the world with access to the internet. However nothing is more frustrating than trying to get something done online only to discover that your computer keeps freezing up and is running slower than molasses. This article is going to discuss the importance of checking your computer every month and how you can do it for free online.

Yes your computer does require a maintenance routine. Just like an automobile it requires attention to run smoothly. You may not realize it but there are a lot of things that your computer can catch while you are browsing online. Maybe you have heard the saying “do not open up emails if you do not know who sent them to you.” This is very true; however even if you did not open up any unknown emails; you still want to check your computers performance at least once a month.

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postheadericon Slow Computer Fix

It is very annoying to have a slow computer and many people have no idea on how to fix it. They do not only suffer from slow running computer but also computer freezing and poor optimization. There are some factors that affect the performance of your computer. You need to cope with all the negative issues that slow down your computer and find a slow computer fix.

Be patient enough and here you will discover some effective steps on how to make your computer run faster. Here are some simple tips you can perform to fix a slow computer.

#1 First start your computer and go through the list of installed programs you have on your computer. Having your computer used for a long time, there are programs that need to be deleted. You should remove programs that you no longer need or no longer use or out of date. Having done this, you will improve computer performance and it will run faster.

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postheadericon 2/25/05 Why did you last reformat your hard drive?

How To Increase Computer Speed & Performance by malikali86 – 7/24/05 1:41 AM In reply to: To Increase Performance by Nacromancer

Many computer users are worried about their computer’s performance. After spending lot of bucks, still they cannot have that charm of using PC as they had expected. Here I am going to explain some major tricks which are used by many computer users which help them to take efficient use of their CPU.

These tips could be of little importance for people who are already using processors with speed more than 2400 MHz but people using computer with less speed and little older mother boards and processors will enjoy these tips. They will realize significant increase in their computer’s performance.

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