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You can use a registry cleaner to clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some registry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".

Every time you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Registry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!

There are some comparison and review of TOP 5 registry cleaners.

http://make-my-pc-faster.com/

You can download and scan your computer for free.

NEVER try downloading anything that makes your computer faster!!! why ? because most of these never help or help by a TINY bit + those downloaded programs will probably have to be purchased to work to full capacity but if you download the free version it will barley do anything AND THEY WILL MIGHT CHARGE YOU MONEY TO UNINSTALL IT

so im not going to try be smart and tell you to buy a new computer but heres what you should do to make it faster:

1: Delete prgramms and files that you dont use

2: Dont keep alot of icons on the screen

3: Dont keep alot of programs running at the same time

also even though you don know it but programs might be running without you knowing the safest way for you to find out is by checking the bottom-right corner of the screen and seeing how many things are there chances are that if there alot of icons means programs are there and they start up without your permision and run in the background

if there are any questions than please ask me

Here's some things to do to speed it up. Do them in this order for best results.

• Turn off programs not needed at start up. click Start > Run, type "msconfig" without the quotes & click Enter, click Startup tab, uncheck any items that you don't need at startup, click Apply, click OK, restart your PC

• Uninstall unneeded programs. click Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs

• Run Disk Cleaner to remove unneeded files. Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup, select C:drive, in the next window check mark all boxes except Indexing

• Run CCleaner to remove junk files. It's free at http://www.ccleaner.com/

• Run Eusing Registry Cleaner to clean up unneeded registry entries. It's free at http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/regist...

• Run Defrag to compact the files that Windows & other programs put all over the place on your hard drive. click Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Defragment, select C:drive & click Defrag

• Restart your computer

This is assuming you run regular spyware scans to remove malware that can slow down your PC. If not, get the free Malwarebytes & SuperAntiSpyware programs. They are excellent.

SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com/

Malwarebytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/index.php

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May be you should try cleaning up your computer. Use ccleaner for this purpose. Also u need to defrag your hard disk regularly. You may read all the steps here:

http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed....

and may download softwares from these links:

http://www.brothersoft.com/ccleaner-60979.html

http://www.brothersoft.com/diskkeeper-204905.html

http://www.brothersoft.com/free---speed-up-pc-3x-f...

Since defragging the disk won't do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.

1.) To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software -- the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine -- and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.

2.) If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically improve system performance.

3.) Ensure that Windows XP is utilizing the NTFS file system. If you're not sure, here's how to check: First, double-click the My Computer icon, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Next, examine the File System type; if it says FAT32, then back-up any important data. Next, click Start, click Run, type CMD, and then click OK. At the prompt, type CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS and press the Enter key. This process may take a while; it's important that the computer be uninterrupted and virus-free. The file system used by the bootable drive will be either FAT32 or NTFS. I highly recommend NTFS for its superior security, reliability, and efficiency with larger disk drives.

4.) Disable file indexing. The indexing service extracts information from documents and other files on the hard drive and creates a "searchable keyword index." As you can imagine, this process can be quite taxing on any system.

The idea is that the user can search for a word, phrase, or property inside a document, should they have hundreds or thousands of documents and not know the file name of the document they want. Windows XP's built-in search functionality can still perform these kinds of searches without the Indexing service. It just takes longer. The OS has to open each file at the time of the request to help find what the user is looking for.

Most people never need this feature of search. Those who do are typically in a large corporate environment where thousands of documents are located on at least one server. But if you're a typical system builder, most of your clients are small and medium businesses. And if your clients have no need for this search feature, I recommend disabling it.

Here's how: First, double-click the My Computer icon. Next, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching." Next, apply changes to "C: subfolders and files," and click OK. If a warning or error message appears (such as "Access is denied"), click the Ignore All button.

5.) Update the PC's video and motherboard chipset drivers. Also, update and configure the BIOS. For more information on how to configure your BIOS properly, see this article on my site.

6.) Empty the Windows Prefetch folder every three months or so. Windows XP can "prefetch" portions of data and applications that are used frequently. This makes processes appear to load faster when called upon by the user. That's fine. But over time, the prefetch folder may become overloaded with references to files and applications no longer in use. When that happens, Windows XP is wasting time, and slowing system performance, by pre-loading them. Nothing critical is in this folder, and the entire contents are safe to delete.

7.) Once a month, run a disk cleanup. Here's how: Double-click the My Computer icon. Then right-click on the C: drive and select Properties. Click the Disk Cleanup button -- it's just to the right of the Capacity pie graph -- and delete all temporary files.

8.) In your Device Manager, double-click on the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers device, and ensure that DMA is enabled for each drive you have connected to the Primary and Secondary controller. Do this by double-clicking on Primary IDE Channel. Then click the Advanced Settings tab. Ensure the Transfer Mode is set to "DMA if available" for both Device 0 and Device 1. Then repeat this process with the Secondary IDE Channel.

9.) Upgrade the cabling. As hard-drive technology improves, the cabling requirements to achieve these performance boosts have become more stringent. Be sure to use 80-wire Ultra-133 cables on all of your IDE devices with the connectors properly assigned to the matching Master/Slave/Motherboard sockets. A single device must be at the end of the cable; connecting a single drive to the middle connector on a ribbon cable will cause signaling problems. With Ultra DMA hard drives, these signaling problems will prevent the drive from performing at its maximum potential. Also, because these cables inherently support "cable select," the location of each drive on the cable is important. For these reasons, the cable is designed so drive positioning is explicitly clear.

10.) Remove all spyware from the computer. Use free programs such as AdAware by

Go to cnet . com <-- sorry, I'm not sure if we can post links, but I assume you know what I mean, and click the "software" tab at the top and type in "virus software" "scanning software" in the search bar. Pick whatever has the highest ratings. Also, make sure that any files you don't want are deleted for maximum memory, and any program you don't use is uninstalled.

Hope this helps!

The cheapest way if possible is to find RAM for it. Maybe you can get it free. Also you can try a startup manager that you can download for free, you can disable programs that do not need to be running all the time.

Go to http://pc-optimizer-pro-download.com/

With pc optimizer pro you can safely clean, repair and optimize your computer.

It will help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades.

I think you should try windows 98 if you are using windows xp. You will have to face problems regarindg usb drivers but it will really boost up your computer.

try here for instructions to speed things up http://tinyurl.com/lfq2qf