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Cleaning up your computer
I get a
lot of questions and emails with people asking me how they can improve
their overall speed of their machine and make it run faster. This is a
guide on how you can do that.
Where to start.
First off, you may want to boot into safe mode (but not before you have
downloaded all anti-spyware/virus applications) as this allows only
necessary applications to run and prevents any unwanted programs from
running allowing the quick removal of them.
What to look for.
There are several things that can slow the overall performance of your
machine spyware being one of them, viruses, and too many applications
loading on reboot. The first one is spyware below there are two links
to the best anti-spyware applications. They are both free is it will
cost you nothing to download and use them, if your not aware of how to
use them the tutorial is there available for you. Scanning for viruses
you can use your current anti-virus software but if you dont have one.
You can go to http://www.bitdefender.com
and it will cleaned and/or remove viruses that maybe in your machine.
The last and not least is a tricky one and does involve a little
knowledge of your computer because you would need to know what your
machine can run or cant for more advanced users i would recommend
hijackthis and for novice/beginners, i would recommend msconfig.
MSConfig, or System Configuration Utility, is a boot configuration
utility bundled with all Microsoft Windows operating systems released
after 1995 except Windows 2000.
Clicking on the icon below will take you to the site that you need to
download the application and on the right hand side is the how
to tutorials.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial43.html
I also recommend using ccleaner after your done with all your scans. It
deletes up all your temporary files and miscealloenous files to give
you more space on your machine and safely removes registry
errors (WARNING: if you do not know what ccleaner removes, please read
the tutorial).
ADVANCED:
If your browser or computer is still having problems after running
Spybot or another Spyware/Hijacker remover. Use HijackThis, it is an
advanced tool, and requires advanced knowledge about Windows. If you
delete items that it shows, without knowing what they are, it can lead
to other problems such as your Internet no longer working or problems
with running Windows itself. I have included a tutorial that
can help if you really want to learn. There are forums there where you
can have computer experts take a look at your log file and can
recommend what you can and should remove.
After doing all this and your computer still runs slow then you maybe
just suffering from a lot deeper within the operating system or
hardware problems. One common mistake people always think is that if
something works today, then it should work tommorow as well. Never rule
out your hardware, they are not made to last a lifetime. Remember to
always update your windows security, as well as your anti-virus/spyware
defintion files.
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