The Best Tips for Speeding Up Your Windows PC

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The Best Tips for Speeding Up Your Windows PC

If your computer has started to slow down, there are many options for speeding it up.

Below, we show you some of the best tips for speeding up your PC, some from previous

HTG articles and some described here.

Turn off Startup Programs

hen you install a program in indows, it may add a small program that runs when

indows starts. !fter installing a lot of software, your boot up process could become

slow. If there are programs you don"t use much, they probably don"t need to start

every time indows does. #ou can disable startup programs manually or use the free

tool CCleaner. #ou can also use $oluto to speed up boot time.
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Clean Up Unnecessary Files on Your Computer

!s you use your computer, files collect in all %inds of places. indows and programs

running in indows create temporary files and log files. &iles you have deleted may

collect in the 'ecycle Bin, if you don"t empty it often. hen you browse the internet,

browsers create temporary files, sites put coo%ies on your computer, and the download

history and form history grows. CCleaner can help you clean up your computer. #ou can

set up CCleaner to automatically run on a scheduleand you can also create a shortcut

to run CCleaner (uic%ly and silently.

Schedule a Task to Perform Disk Cleanup

indows provides a built)in *is% Cleanup tool that removes old files and temporary files

to help you reclaim hard dis% space and possibly speed up your PC. It"s a good idea to

run the *is% Cleanup tool on a regular basis, such as wee%ly or monthly, depending on

your computer usage. #ou can use the Tas% $cheduler in indows to set up a tas% to

run the *is% Cleanup tool on a set schedule.
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Remove Malare! Spyare! and "dare

If you have malware, spyware, or adware on your computer, that can affect its

performance. The articles below describe some tools that help you get rid of malware,

spyware, and adware and also how to get rid of fa%e antivirus applications that areactually viruses in themselves.
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Turn off #indos Features

By default, indows enables a lot of features that you most li%ely don"t use and ta%e up

valuable resources on your computer. However, these features can be disabled. There

are many ways to disable indows features. e have previously written about the ;3best ways to disable built)in indows features you don"t want or need.

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The indows $earch Properties dialog bo< displays. $elect *isabled from the $tartup

type drop)down list. Clic% 9? to accept the change and close the dialog bo


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In the tree in the left pane of the 'egistry ditor, navigate to the

H?#C-''/T-$'Control Panel*es%top %ey. In the right pane, scroll down until

you find the +enu$how*elay data value. 'ight)clic% on the name and select +odify

from the popup menu.

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Delete Unnecessary %tems from the Send To Menu

$ome programs may add items to the $end To menu when you install them. If so, your

$end To menu may become slow to access. However, you can easily customi@e the

$end To menu in indows and remove items you don"t useor even disable the $end To

menu completely.

)imit the 'um$er of %tems in *ach Folder
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If you have lots of files in a single folder, it can slow down


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%nstall Programs into a +irtual Machine

Installing programs in a virtual machine to test them using a virtuali@ation program li%e

6irtualBo< or 6+ware or%station or Player %eeps your host machine trim and fast and

can prevent it from slowing down. hen you uninstall them, any remnants are left in

the virtual machine, not on your host machine 5although, you can also use 'evo

-ninstaller, as mentioned earlier in this article, to uninstall software completely7. !lso,

you can test how the program itself, when running, affects system resources.
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/ow, you can be faster and more efficient when wor%ing or goofing offE

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