Slow computer any ideas?
My computer is several years old. Not old enough to be this slow though. It lags real bad with videos and it didn't use to. I have tried reformatting it and defragging it neither helped, though the former did speed it up for a little. I was told dust could slow it down, but I am not sure if that is true. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
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First of all check if your computer is infected or not. If it is, use Malwarebyts' and a good up-to-date antivirus to get rid of them. Here is a good guide on virus and malware cleanup: http://internet.helium.com/how-to/12032-how-to-cle...
After you are sure your computer is clean, do the following:
1. Increase RAM if your computer has the capability
2. Uninstall software you never use via the Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs
3. Clean up junk files (e.g. temp files, browser cache)
4. Clean the registry
5. Sort through your startup items - there might be things like Windows Live messenger starting on every computer boot, which slows down the computer. You can always start that messenger manually
6. Defrag hard drives
You can do all this manually or using a combination of free tools like CCleaner, Revo uninstaller, Auslogics Disk Defrag etc. Also you could get an optimization suite like BoostSpeed, where you can do it all and more from one program. Links below.
Run virus and spyware scans. Make sure that you have updated the drivers for all of your software. It is possible for dust to affect the computer by gumming up fans and/or demagnetizing chips but that wouldn't cause your machine to run slower it would just make more noise or stop working entirely. If your computer is more than three years old you may want to consider an upgrade to RAM memory. If it is more than 5 years old it would probably be less expensive to save up for a new machine.
For Vista, you're able to have a minimum of three GB or 4 GB of RAM to run it truly properly. you're able to do a disk freshen up, and a disk defragmentation, you're able to additionally eliminate any classes or application you do no longer truly use. Have a extreme high quality day Ken
After a while you need more memory. Junk files slowly eat away at your RAM.
Go to START
ALL PROGRAMS
ACCESSORIES
SYSTEM TOOLS
SYSTEM INFO
There you will find the amount of RAM you really have left. I'm betting that's your culprit and can be resolved with additional RAM. Good luck
Try deleting all unnecessary progs and files. They do gather up. There are some progs on web which run a system check for you.
Add ram, delete all software’s you don't use and download Reginout to make your System faster.