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Article Title: How to Fix a Slow Crashing Computer For Free
Author: alona Rudnitsky
Category: Spyware and Viruses, Operating Systems, Free Tools and Resources
Word Count: 635
Keywords: Tucson Computer Repair, Laptop Repair, PC Repair, Hard Drive Repair
Author's Email Address: [email protected]
Article Source: http://www.articlemarketer.com
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On of the main problems you may be experiencing with your computer is
old-age-slow-down. Without any maintenance, unfortunately, your computer will
continue to a slow down. Crashing or freezing is another very common complaint.
The short term solution is to just restart your computer; however, this will
become an extremely frustrating task if your computer takes forever to restart.
Good news is unlike humans the computer can be rejuvenated and restored fairly
easily.
A novice user can follow in the footsteps of a computer technician and
easily carry out preliminary computer repair tasks. Maybe there is no need to
call a tech or buy a new computer.
Step 1: Make use of the disk cleaner windows provides. By running this
utility, it will safely remove all unnecessary files. After a couple of years
the buildup of temporary files can be substantially weighing down your system.
The utility is located in; Start - All programs - Accessories - System tools -
Disk Clean Up.
Step 2: Remove all unused software, particularly the free software
you may have downloaded on a trial basis of for short term use. Uninstall is
located in Start- Control Panel - Programs- uninstall a program.
Step 3: Assuming your anti virus is up to date and not reporting any
viruses you need to scan your PC for any threats that may be lurking. There is
free software available on the internet that may do a satisfactory job. Go to
Microsoft and download the free windows defender program, run it on your
computer.
Step 4: Registry Clean up. One thing you will always see in every
technicians toolkit is registry cleaning software. What is the computer
registry? is a very common question.
Think of the registry as a huge database that holds the computers inventory
of every single file, folder, and program that resides on your computer. The
problem is when you add or remove programs and files, the registry gets
bloated, disorganized, and the result is a slow PC.
Manual repair and maintenance of the registry would be a highly complex
task, but with good software the task becomes easy. Run the software to clean
out old remnants of old software and bugs. An excellent registry cleaner can be
found at www.RegCure.com
Last Step: Defragment. Adding and deleting files from your hard drive is a
common task, unfortunately it is usually not done very efficiently. For
example, when you delete a bunch of little files and add a new large file, the
file may get broken up into multiple sections on the hard disk.
The computer will still read the newly added file as a single valid file,
but the drive will have to scan multiple parts of the disk to read it. Because
hard drive seek time is one of the most significant bottlenecks in a computers
performance, this can drag down your computer speed quite a bit.
If you have a ton of fragmented files on your hard drive you might hear
grinding, sputtering and other weird noises coming from your computer.
Microsoft provides you with a defragmenting tool, but if you have never
defrag before it will take several days to run. There is a great defragmenter
that takes a fraction of the time called Defraggler and can be downloaded for
free at FileHippo.
Tucson Computer Repair, Laptop Repair, PC Repair Specialists visit us at
http://nationalpcsolutions.com
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