How To Make My Computer Faster

If you have ever asked yourself how to make my computer faster you are not alone, many people have asked to same question.
Computers have become part of our daily lives, they have revolutionised the way we gather information, network with friends and colleagues even the way we shop. But unfortunately they are not perfect and are vulnerable to a host of problems such as viruses, spyware and adware all affecting your PC's performance and speed.

Follow These Simple Steps To Make Your Computer Faster

There are various steps you can take to increase the speed at which your computer operates, these include maintaining your hard drive by cleaning it at regular intervals, uninstall programs which you no longer use or need, in particular the ones which load when windows start.
Defragment your Hard drive and run disk cleanup, all of these are the most basic steps you can take to improve the speed at which applications load and the speed of boot and shutdown times.

The next step on how to make my computer faster is to weed out auto-starting programs which are not essential to your PC's operation, this can be done by:   

	clicking on the Start
	typing msconfig at the command prompt and press enter
	This will show the list of all the programs that are loaded when you Power On your PC
	Go through the list and check if there are any programs which you don’t need
	Disable the programs that you feel are not essential to you
	That's It! Restart your PC
	It is however important to keep the anti-virus and other important system components enabled.

If you feel apprehensive about doing this manually, see my PC Registry Recovery guide.

Now for the next step in this how to make my computer faster guide, run a anti-virus or anti-spyware program, if you don't have one you may be interested in The Best Registry Cleaner Review where i compare 4 of the best programs available.
Once you have opened the program, initiate a full system scan, any problem areas will be identified and corrected.
Any of the top programs will also scan your system registry, and if required will clean your registry deleting any broken links, or unwanted entries which will give your computer a significant boost in speed.

In addition to the steps mentioned above there are some hardware fixes you can try if you want to know how to make my computer faster, the easiest of which is to upgrade your RAM.
Older systems rarely have enough Ram installed, the bare minimum would be 2GB, if you have any less it's time for you to upgrade. If you add quality brand RAM, this alone will immediately boost the speed of your system.

If you follow all these steps and you find your system is still slow, it might be the right time to format your hard drive, and reinstall your operating system and applications (Use this only as a last resort).
Wiping years of trashed registry entries, temporary files and out dated versions of software programs can be very helpful in making your computer faster, just make sure that you backup all your data.

I hope this answers your question how to make my computer faster, if you need more information be sure to read my article How Do I Get Rid Of Adware.