Speed Up Your Computer

If your computer is bogging down in software and who knows what, and you're tired of watching lines fill across your screen or rotating little icons, or whatever it takes to open applications you double-clicked on five minutes ago! ARGH!
That's it. Let's speed up the computer to get it to some sort of median usability again. Here's how.



Remove spyware, and help protect your computer from viruses

Spyware collects personal information without letting you know and without asking for permission. From the websites you visit to user names and passwords, spyware can put you and your confidential information at risk. In addition to privacy concerns, spyware can hamper your computer's performance. 
Download Microsoft Security Essentials for free to help guard your system in the future from viruses, spyware, adware, and other malicious software (also known as malware). Microsoft Security Essentials acts as a spyware removal tool and includes automatic updates to help keep your system protected from emerging threats.
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is another utility that checks computers running Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software, including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom, and helps remove any infection found.


 Free up disk space

The Disk Cleanup tool helps you to free up space on your hard disk to improve the performance of your computer. The tool identifies files that you can safely delete and then enables you to choose whether you want to delete some or all of the identified files.
Use Disk Cleanup to:
  • Remove temporary Internet files.
  • Delete downloaded program files, such as Microsoft ActiveX controls and Java applets.
  • Empty the Recycle Bin.
  • Remove Windows temporary files, such as error reports.
Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Disk Cleanup

Remove the bloat



It's inevitable that over time you're going to collect a nice long list of applications you installed and used once out of curiosity. It's time to clean up the mess.
Head to your Control Pqnel > Uninstall a program (Windows Vista or Windows 7) or Add and Remove a Program (Windows XP). Start editing from the top of the list. Windows makes it easy to see what you use and don't by adding a column indicating the last time you used the program. A good rule of thumb: delete everything you haven't used in a month. If you miss it, you can always reinstall it later.


Defragment your hard drive


The more you use your hard drive, the more disorganized it can get behind the scenes. You don't see defragmentation in typical operating system usage. However, over time, the more spins your hard drive has to make in order to find the information you're looking for, the longer you have to wait.
Defragmenting your drive will reorganize and clean up your data so it is easily accessible and, therefore, faster to access.
Windows comes with an application that will defragment your hard drive for you. It's appropriately called Disk Defragmenter and you can find it in your Utilities folder.


Install More RAM


You can't beat physics. Your hard drive contains moving pieces and is slower than RAM. When you open applications and need more RAM than what you've got on your system, your operating system will partition a chunk of your hard drive to use as RAM in order to keep your applications running.
So while you're operating system doesn't grind to a halt (that's good), it slows to a snail's pace (that's bad). Remedy the situation by upgrading your RAM. RAM is getting cheaper, and really, you can't have enough.

From a Wiki How To Article and Microsoft At Workhttp://www.microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed.aspx

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