A slow computer is annoying and will not only run out of our patience, but also affect our normal work and efficiency. More serious is that the slow computer indicates many serious problems. If you do not pay attention and optimize the computer, the problem will become more and more severe. If your computer become slow for virus infection, you will have data loss and even the damaged hard drive.
How to fix the slow computer?
To boost your computer, you need to know the factors which greatly affect the running speed of the computer.
The startup options
Even if sometimes you can take a cup of coffee when you boot your computer, it is not always acceptable for everyone to wait for the slow computer to start. It’s time consuming and will run out of our patience and affect the normal activities on the computer.
The startup options will take up the startup time, so it’s necessary to disable some of the unnecessary startup options. Some programs will enable them to boot automatically when you install them. SO you need to change the startup options to enable these program which you rarely use. The rarely used program will not only prolong the startup time, but also take up the system resource so that to slow down the computer.
Open the Task manager, click the Startup tab, choose the program which you want to disable to remove from the startup. You should only leave several options you need in the startup options.
Defrag the hard drive
Defrag your hard drive will help you to speed up your hard drive. But if you use an internal solid state drive, you do not need to defrag it.
Uninstall the rarely used programs and delete the unused files
If your computer has installed dozens of programs, it should be no wonder that your computer become slower and slower. You should uninstall the programs with large size or take much memory, or replace the program with alternative ones to save the memory space.
The unused files will eat your space. To avoid data loss and improve the system’s performance, you’d better do not put files on the desktop.
All the data store on different partitions of hard drive, they will always here until they are deleted and overwritten. Whether you can retrieve data from the hard drive or not depends on if the data have been erased or not. After the files deleted from the hard drive, the system will mark them as deleted so that you will never access to them in system. But the data still store on the hard drive so that they can be restored. While if you add new data to this location, they will replace the old data so that the deleted data can not be retrieved.
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