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Improve Your Computer’s Performance

Time is money—and when you have a sluggish computer or spend time trying to hunt down missing files or e-mails, you’re wasting a whole lot of both. Just as you can improve your car’s performance by practicing regular maintenance, a few simple computer strategies can boost your productivity and save time.

Get Organized

It’s likely that more time is wasted in business trying to hunt down a file or e-mail than anything else. There are several reasons for this, and each has a simple fix. First is poor folder structure.

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If your PC seems slower than normal, you may need to repair Internet Explorer. After extended periods of use and normal wear and tear, if you repair Internet Explorer you should notice a vast improvement in the performance of your computer. Nearly anyone who uses a PC eventually notices that things are not as swift as they once were. What causes a once fast performing computer to get so sluggish?

Think of all of the things you do when you are online. You may download files, share networks, put more things on your hard drive. Some software files are huge! Then after time, when we no longer use these applications, we still leave them setting there, taking up space. Add to that the spyware problems that are widely spread across the Internet, and it is a wonder our computers even work at all! However, if you have Internet Explorer problems there are solutions.

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Hello My computer has been acting extra extra slow and sluggish, takes ages to open windows and applications, such ad-aware and spybot – which both state win32 trojan….I deleted on those two programs in both safe mode and normal but still slow and I am sure I haven’t got rid of it yet, please help!!! I appreciate it very much…here is my Hijack This log:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 2:11:24 AM, on 31/03/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Boot mode: Normal

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Did your machine slow down lately, especially when you’re using the MS Word?

It may be that you’ve got thousands of temp files just sitting there, clogging your machine. It may be time for some serious house cleaning.

Each time you open a Word document, MS Word creates a temporary file about that document. There are other Windows applications like FrameMaker for example that do the same.

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Don’t let a sluggish computer ruin your gaming experience. Learn how to keep your computer and games running smoothly by following these tips. This how to was written with Windows 98 in mind. The tips will work on other operating systems, however you may find that the locations of the utilities are in different locations.

Disk Defragmenter The defragmenter will organize your files so the computer can use the files you are accessing faster, since it won’t have to search as long. Run this program with as few programs running in the background as possible. I suggest defragging your drive(s) every couple of weeks, before you install a program, or after you uninstall a few programs.

Find it here: Start -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter

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How To Clean Up A Sluggish Computer

WHY: After several months to a couple years, depending on how much maintenance & how often you’ve been on the internet, most computers become sluggish & don’t operate as fast as they formerly did & some programs might not work at all, or may not work as well as they formerly did. The 3 primary reasons are viruses, spyware (adware) & too many unnecessary background services running which wastes ram & CPU resources. You might think you need a new computer, but chances are all you need to do is clean up the software in your computer, or reformat the hard drive & reinstall a fresh copy of the operating system (OS). While reformatting the hard drive & reinstalling the OS is usually the quickest way to get your computer healthy again & the most sure way of getting rid of bad stuff (like viruses & spyware), sometimes a fresh install just isn’t an option. If you have misplaced your software discs for the operating system or applications & you can’t borrow copies, then a fresh reinstall isn’t an option. Likewise if you have large amounts of personal data work files that you have no way of backing up to another media or don’t know where they are all stored, if you’ve highly customized your OS, if you have software applications that require a new serial number key for a fresh install but the company has gone out of business, if you can no longer obtain drivers for hardware such as your printer, etc., or if you simply want to learn what messed up your computer in the first place, then here is a tutorial on steps you might want to take to clean up your sluggish computer.

STEPS & DISCLAIMER: The following steps are in the rough order you might want to try, but you may choose to skip steps you don’t need, or that you don’t feel comfortable doing. Disclaimer: this is only a tutorial of the steps I often use, they come with no guarantees & you perform these procedures on your computer at your own risk. You can have a computer store charge you to do these steps, but the idea in this tutorial, is to save you money & teach you more about keeping your computer operating safely & cleanly. If you are concerned about losing any personal work data files, save copies to another media (like CD or DVD or another hard drive) for safekeeping. Installing the free or trial software mentioned below will have to be done from a user profile that has administration privileges. You might find it helpful to print out this tutorial to help you through the steps.

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Some ways to boost by OttifantSir – 9/5/07 12:42 PM In reply to: What should I do? Such a sluggish computer! by buzz1170

Either open My Computer on the desktop, or in the Start Menu. Right-click the system drive and select Properties. It will show how much free space you have. If this is low, you go slow.

Uninstalling unused programs is the best way to regain some space on your drive. Then find a registry cleaner. CCleaner is highly recommended. Run it and let it do its job. This can be found here on Download. Then find Auslogics Registry Defrag and Disk Defrag (search Auslogics Defrag) here.

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Does your screen freeze up, your laptop or computer sluggish, slow and your not sure how to fix it. I know the feeling. I have dealt with all the problems listed above. I seem to always get conflicted solutions for these types of problems.

So I made sure to do tons of research on slow computers. I will now spend the next few moths writing as many articles as I can in my spare time. I want to make sure that I get the word out to people. If your computer sluggish I want you to know that there are some very simple ways to speed it right back up.

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My computer is so slow… and I believe I have some kind of virus. I have used all kinds of virus scanning and malware utilities and it has turned up nothing. I tried to defrag my hard drive and it didnt help. Tried cleaning up my registry and still nothing. I am stumped. My computer is a 3.3ghz windows xp home… 384mb of ram… its only about a year old… it should not be doing this.

here is the hijackthis log. yes i know there is alot of stuff in it that doesnt need to be running… but i have closed almost all of these programs and still come up with a slow computer.

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There are a few possible causes that will make a computer loose its speed and often behave sluggishly. When it does so, it seems like the computer starts to operate in slow motion as it takes minutes to do an operation it would normally take only a few seconds complete.

Of course, a slow computer could be the result of computer hardware gone bad, but usually this is not the case as a bad part in the PC will almost always cause the computer to fail at startup.

Most often, a computer slows down when it is either infected with a virus or spyware, or when the operating system’s registry becomes corrupted. In this article, we will acknowledge that most computers are already running some kind of program that will protect it against viruses and spyware and we will turn our attention to a lesser known, but equally important computer adversary; registry corruption.

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