Many people have decent machines that startup fast when they initially buy it. Although after several months they may notice the performance of their computer slowing down and not know why. They may first think they need to do some type of PC upgrade because of the performance. These types of issues are often not because of the actual PC Parts but because of regular use. The PC isn’t getting old it just needs some routine maintenance to get it performing like you want it to. There are several things you can do to improve the startup speed of your computer as well as the general performance of it.
After you’ve owned a PC for a few months you’ve almost certainly installed several programs on the computer. The programs in most cases will automatically create various shortcuts on your desktop and start menu. Although these shortcuts are extremely useful they also cause your computer to take forever to start up. Loads of people also tend to clutter their desktop with other types of shortcuts or files. It’s a very common case that not many people realize. You should start by taking all of the shortcuts on the desktop and putting them in a folder named shortcuts. By doing this you’ll still have access to all of the programs that you need.
Next you will want to take any of the programs off of the start menu that you have already put into the shortcut folder. If there are a number of shortcuts on the start menu that aren’t in the shortcut folder then you can simply add them to the folder and delete the rest of the file off of the start menu. By cleaning up all of the extra shortcuts off of the start menu you will not only speed up the startup of the computer but the overall performance. This is because the ram doesn’t have to load all of the duplicate shortcuts and try to arrange them where you had them. Also when you try clicking on the start menu there will be a lot less for the PC to have to load up.
Lastly you will want to do a disk cleanup and defragmentation from time to time. You can actually set the computer up to do this automatically. You should plan to have it do it once every other month at the latest. It’s best to defragment every few weeks or after installing several programs. This is for the reason that the files get shifted around a lot and the computer will have to search to find them. It’s similar to having an office full of filing cabinets that are never organized. You’ll never find what you’re looking for. Although if you have them all organized you know right where to find them. The same is true for a computer. Defragmenting will increase the speed of your PC and it’s startup by leaps and bounds if you’ve never done it before. These few simple steps can help increase the performance of your computer and make it feel like a new machine.
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Thank you for sharing in slow PC
Besides, I think we can free up disk space as follows:
In fact, almost the temporary files are restored in the C:/Docucments and Settings/Users’ name, you can remove them as follows:
1. Open C: /Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Cookies, delete all the files, because it restores the left index files when visiting websites.
2. In the C: /Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/History, delete the files since they belong to history record.
3. In the C: /WINDOWS/Temp, remove all these temporary files.
4. In the C:/Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/Temp, remove such user’s temporary visiting files.
5. Open C:/Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files, delete all the page files.
6. In the C:/Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Recent folder, you can delete all these shortcuts of recent browsed files.
7. In the C: /WINDOWS/Software Distribution/download, get rid of all the temporary files when downloading.
8. In the C: /WINDOWS/Driver Cache/386, delete all the compressed files.