Simple but important...What can I do to make my computer run fast?? (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ彡┻━┻

Well first off, lets start with why do you think your computer is running slow?

   Random user guy: "well its slow and stuff....I dont know?! "

      This is usually the situation I get when dealing with real users, they don't know if there computer is slow or not. Second there are many reasons why it could be slow. Here are some; virus, to many programs running at once, process or service that taking up to many processesing power or registry is not clean. If your computer is fairly new (1-2 yr oldish) and it was fast at one point, then here are some 'free' yes I said free ways of making it run faster, and do more processing on the things 'you ' want to do.

Method One: MSCONFIG

1. Go to start and type run and press Ok. (If your in xp then select run in the start menu)

2. In the run Text Box type 'msconfig' and then press enter.

3.Now if you want your computer to start up really fast, go to the startup tab, then there should be a button at the bottom that should say 'Disable all', now For top performance at start up you should click this. Else if you do need something to start up with the computer then select the ones you don't wants starting up by unchecking them.







4. Then press Apply and close, it will ask to restart the computer for the changes to take effect...you don't have too, you could just wait till you're done using it, that way you'll be suprised when it starts up faster.
 

Method Two: Adding Virtual RAM

1. Go to start then Right click on My Computer and select properties. In windows 7 and vista a Systems Windows should appear.

 2. There should be an advanced option near the Top Left of the window. Click on that and a System Properties windows should pop up. If its already not on the 'Advanced' tab then do so. And in that tab in the 'Performance' area click on the settings button.

 





 3. A window called Performance Options should appear. What you can do in this window to speed up your computer if you don't care about how the theme of windows looks is in hte Visual Effects tab, there should be an option 'Adjust for best performance' if thats not click, then click apply and Ok.





 4.What we want though is in the Advanced tab in the 'Performance Options ' Window. In that tab there should be a section called Virtual memory, with a button called changed. Click the button and another window should also appear called 'Virtual Memory'. There will be an option called "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives", *if that is checked, UNCHECK it*. There should be another option called 'Custom size:'
click the radio button on that and two text boxes; 'Initial size(MB):' and 'Maximum size(MB)' should become active. Now there should be a section called 'Total paging file size for all drives', look at the recommended setting, now whatever that number is put it in the 'Initial size(MB):' and 'Maximum size(MB)' and make sure that both numbers are the same. Then click Set. Apply if its active and Ok.