Tips for Making Your Computer Faster - 1

To begin with, here are some of the basic tips to make your PC faster:

Virus Free

Check that your Computer is not infected with virus. Virus can cause crucial data loss resulting in wastage of man-hours. Virus is designed to cause malfunction by getting loaded in the memory and causing corruption of crucial files and data. A PC infected with virus will run slower and might show funny errors and behave erratically. Use some popular anti virus SW’s (free or paid) to scan your PC. The anti virus will need to be regularly updated to prevent, check for and remove new viruses. Some people develop viruses and some others develop vaccines to make money. It’s a market to make money. But, don’t let your PC suffer because of this. Scan your PC regularly when it’s free and keep yours anti virus updated. Whether you are online doing surfing or offline copying files from others, you must make habit of checking your PC regularly for viruses. You can try AVG Free Edition that is absolutely free for personal use (no trials). It can be downloaded from:

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/frt/0?prd=aff

Spyware Free

Spyware is a program that spies your PC and transmits your confidential information to the hacker. When a PC is infected with spyware, there are lot of popup and advertisements, which makes your system busy and slow. Spyware is installed by the means of downloaded files (mostly from porn and cracks sites) and online scripts without user being aware of it. Spyware tracks the sites visited by the user and keystrokes etc. and is thus very dangerous. Spyware gets installed due to poor security settings in the browser. So it’s really important to make sure
that your PC is not infected with any of the spyware. It also needs to be updated. One good and free anti spyware (no trials) from the many available is Ad-Aware 2007. It can be downloaded from -

http://www.filehippo.com/download/7bab09491093841340be3d12b2e5c1e7/download/

Defragging your Hard Disk

Over a period of time after the files are stored on hard disk, they become scattered and spread randomly due to adding, editing and deleting. This makes them located at different sectors on tracks instead of being spread contiguously in adjacent sectors. Thus when you load a program or file, the hard disk heads have to do a lot of hard work in going to different tracks to find and load the data in the memory. When you defrag these files, they get stored contiguously adjacent to each other. Hence if you are not defragging your hard disk once in few months then the PC is definitely going to become slow. To defragment hard disk, use Windows Disk Defragmenter tool located in Start (Click) –> Programs –> Accessories –> System Tools (in MS Windows XP). For other Microsoft Windows version, check the help file to locate Defragger. Use it when you can spare your PC for several hours as defragmentation process is slow and might take hours depending on your hard disk size, amount of data on it, the system speed and how much the files are scattered.