Make Your Computer Work Faster

Often, users of personal computers are asked about the increase in its speed to accelerate the launch of applications, games, improve overall performance. There are several ways to overclock your computer, which we'll discuss below.

1. Disable the automatic start of unnecessary programs

If you installed programs with the default settings, then most likely you have a lot of software running in the background and running automatically, without your participation, the start of which you do not need. These programs increase the load time, and consume a certain amount of RAM while working, and thus slow down your computer.

Unfortunately, finding such programs with automatic loading and disabling it can be a difficult task, but there is software that displays all the programs that are automatically launched. After that, all you need to do is mark those programs that automatically start, which you do not need.

2. Free up hard disk space

There is a Disk Cleanup tool that comes with the Windows operating system (Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3), which you can use to free up disk space on your hard drive, but if you do not classify yourself as a technically advanced person, you can take advantage of Third-party software, simplifying this process. Some of these programs can be downloaded and installed for free.

Remove unnecessary programs in Windows by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, selecting Programs and Features, and then selecting the program that you want to remove from the list, and then clicking Delete.

3. The minimum hardware configuration required for the normal operation of your operating system

For normal operation of different versions of the Windows operating system, different amounts of RAM are needed. For Windows XP SP3, 128 MB of RAM is required, for Windows Vista, the Home Basic edition requires at least 512 MB, and for Premium / Business / Ultimate editions you need at least 512 MB of RAM, to run games from 1 GB. Windows 7 consumes from 1GB. Increasing the amount of RAM has a positive effect on the speed of your computer, for this you need to know what type and amount of RAM is supported by the motherboard of your computer.

CCleaner

CCleaner is a free program capable of speeding up your computer, cleaning it from unnecessary files of various applications. So, it cleans, Internet browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari from temporary files, history files, cookies, download history, automatic forms filling history. Cleans the operating system from temporary files, a list of recent documents, log files, and the contents of the recycle bin. A useful function of the program is cleaning the registry from old and unused entries: file extensions, ActiveX controls, ClassID, ProgID, uninstallers, common DLLs, fonts, help files, application paths, icons, invalid shortcuts and much more. There is a backup function. In addition, the program works fine with the maintenance of third-party applications, removing temporary files and file lists (MRUs) from applications such as Media Player, eMule, Google Toolbar, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinZip and many others.

The program is very easy to use, just run the program, click the "Analysis" button, and get an overview of the cleaning objects, indicating the total size of the files to be deleted. The next step is to press the "Clear" button, and your computer is clean! Using the menu, you can specify the objects for analysis and subsequent cleaning.

To clean the registry, go to the tab for that. Run the registry analysis, CCleaner will show you the problems found, which it can fix. Also in the program there is a useful utility that allows you to remove any applications that you no longer need to use; There is a function to view and delete old operating system restore points.