There is an old saying "Do not hurry and you will be the first". This rule could be applied for mushroom gathering, but not for the work with a computer. Nowadays, when so many work is done with the help of computers and internet a fast and reliable PC is not an option, it's a must. Once i was translating a fiction movie (transcribing the text), and suddenly my PC rebooted for no reason at all. After the reboot all my work was gone (3 days work). I can not describe how i felt. The despair and disappointment overtook me. I had to do a 3 days work all over again.
That happened because there was a malware application attack on my computer and somehow MS Word did not make a copy of my work. It is very important to have antivirus and antispyware products installed and have the latest virus and spyware updates. There are some free programs on the net such as AVG and SuperAntiSpyware. These are good, reliable and free products that millions users exploit. Don't wait for the crash of Your PC, think about defence.
Besides spyware and viruses, there are objective and obvious reasons, why your PC may be so slow.
One of the reasons could be this - you are running out of hard drive space.
Firstly, check your hard drive and see how much free space is left. Maybe out of 300 gigabytes you have only 250 megabytes. There are three main "space eaters" that we usually forget about and i am not speaking about video and audio files. These are Recicle Bin, Temporary internet files or cache and System Restore. You will be surprised when you know how much capacity these functions deplete.
Right click on Recycle Bin and click on Properties. Under Global section you will see 2 options "Use one setting for all drive" and "Configure drives independently". Choose one of them and decrease the maximum size of Recycle Bin from 10 % to 2 %. If your hard drive's capacity is 150 GB, then 15 GB is left for garbage. You definitely do not need that much. One gigabyte is practically enough.
Next thing to do - clear your PC from Temporary internet files. Just click Tools and Internet Options. Look for Browsing Internet section and click on Settings. My settings page by default shows a 937 MB space left for temporary files. Reduce it to 50 MB. That is more than enough.
If you have a Firefox browser, then the order is slightly different. Click Tools, Options, then Advanced. Find the Network tab and go to the Offline Storage section. Reduce the limit up to 50 MB.
Thirdly, check System Restore settings. System restore is a nice tool which helps you when no antivirus or spyware removers help. It brings you back to the earlier PC settings. If computer is slow on speed and after antivirus or spyware removers scan the condition hasn't improved, try System Restore function. However, there is one little problem with System restore utility - it creates restore points or checkpoints that take much of your PC's memory. So right click on My Computer, then Properties. Select System restore and click on Settings. Then move the disk space usage slider. By default System Restore tool is given 10% or 12% of hard drive disk space. You don't need that much. Move the slider to 2% or 3%.
If that doesn't help, buy more RAM:)
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