Easy Ways To Speed Up Your PC – Tip #4
Disable file indexing. What file indexing does is it makes a searchable keyword index from all your files and documents on your computer and lets you search for them without knowing the name of the file you need. This is very taxing on your computer. You can disable file indexing by going to start menu/my computer/right click on C: Local Disk/properties/uncheck allow Indexing Service to index this drive for fast file searching.
Easy Ways To Speed Up Your PC – Tip #3
Disable unwanted startup programs. To do this go to start menu/run/msconfig/startup. You will see a list of the applications thatrun at startup. However, before disabling a startup program, google its name. Some startup programs are important and if disabled will damage your computer badly.
Easy Ways To Speed Up Your PC – Tip #2
If you are surfing with Internet Explorer 7, turn off the Phishing Filter. The Phishing Filter, I find slows down your browsing a little bit, and it dosen’t really do anything. Phishing Filter is located in Internet Explorer under tools/phishing filter/turn off automatic website checking. Than, go to http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ie.html and download McAffe Site Advisor. It is free. What Site Advisor does is check its data base to see what the feedback is on different sites. If the Site Advisor’s icon is green, that means the site is ok. If it is yellow, that means procede with caution. If it is red, don’t visit that site. If it is black/gray, that means that the site has not been tested yet.
Easy Ways To Speed Up Your PC – Tip #1
Ok, I know a lot of people already do this, but defrag your pc. Defragging your pc reorganizes your files so that they are closer together and in a better order than they were originally, which leads to your pc being able to jump from one file to the other faster. Disk Defragmeter is located in start menu/all programs/accessories/system tools/Disk Defragmenter. Click on Disk Defragmenter, and when the window pops up click defragment. After it is done just exit out and start using your computer again. It should be a little bit faster now.
