A computer responds to all the human orders and resembles as another human in performance, except in its speed of reaction. When it comes to the maintenance of the computer, there are several points to consider having a best use of it.
Along with rapid increase in the technology, its maintenance has also become challenging, to synchronize its software updates along with hardware upgrade. The 5-point formula for a common man to follow to maintain your computer respond to your orders as fast as a human being is:
Maintain Synchronization between Hardware and Software
It is always suggested to cross check the software before installing onto your computer, so as to check if it really suits your hardware. Some people always keep on upgrading and installing the software, without checking its compatibility with hardware. This may lead to severe hardware issues and may crash your computer. This can be avoided by
- Double-checking the compatibility of software before installing/ upgrading.
- Make sure to install/ upgrade the software, only if it is useful and worth.
- Diagnosing the impact of installation on the hardware performance.
Always avoid unwanted content from your computer
Don’t just keep on dumping your computer with unwanted content. Mostly ignored part of computer is your download folder. Don’t forget to keep your downloads clean by removing unwanted stuff and moving needed content to respective locations. Some important checkpoints to avoid this are:
- Don’t make desktop as your default download location
- Turn off your internet if you are not using it
- Maintain user profiles and keep tab on the content in your computer
- Maintain file system to save files in respective location, so as to backup or recover the data in unexpected situations
- Regularly Back up important data
- Regularly clean up your systems, browsers and run fragmentation processes
Keep enough free space
Keep enough space in the disks for processing. Some important ways to maintain enough free space in the disks are:
- Clear Cache regularly in all browsers
- Empty your Recycle bin
- Clear unwanted data in clipboard
- Quit unused and avoid slow responding applications
- Scan your computer regularly
- Avoid using too many applications at once, as the processor needs to respond to all applications
Regular maintenance
Maintenance of the computer involves addressing both hardware and software issues. Most of the cases especially at homes the PC maintenance is given poor importance. But it is always recommended to consult expertise for regular maintenance. Even with little technical knowledge is also enough to perform such checks. Taking few steps can do such maintenance:
- Keeping computer in dust free place
- Avoiding computer to expose to heat
- Performing software upgrades and updates
- Scanning the computer for viruses and worms
- Updating device drivers for optimal performance
Avoid piracy and duplicates
Pirated software doesn’t just kill the application performance but also affects the performance of the system hardware. In the same way it is always suggested to use good quality and branded hardware instead of going for duplicates. Often the duplicates affect the other associated hardware like motherboard and may even cause short circuits. Some harms caused by pirated software and duplicate hardware are
- Software updates are not possible
- Version upgrades are not possible
- Difficult to avoid viruses, spyware etc and shows impact on other software as well
- Information and Data security
- Duplicate hardware are unwarranted
- They may cause short-circuits
- They come with poor quality
- Use of duplicates makes insurance and warranty invalid
These are the five simple ways, even a non technical guy could understand and implement. They look simple but help in maintaining your computer performance optimal. These are simple ways to make your processor perform with optimal speed.
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About Joseph Adediji
My Lenovo Laptop was too slow. I ringed to PCSupportRobo customer Support 1-800-246-7990 and my problem resolved within few sec.
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Great Useful tips for increasing the speed of the computer, keep on deleting the temporary files and delete it by using CCleaner
Hi Sindhuja,
I use ccleaner too, the tool is cool. thanks for commenting
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Salutary share Joseph.
Slow computers are the most irritating things in the world. Keeping enough free space and proper synchronization between hardware and software are useful tips . Liked the read .
You are right Purnima,
nothing irritates more than a sloc PC, I hate it!
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This is exactly what I need to know. My pc is really slowing down and I constantly reformat it to make it faster again and again. And it is really a waste of time doing this.
Hi Sarah,
PC can be annoying sometimes, use the tips shared in this post and am sure that your PC will run faster.
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I love this post. My computer has been running a bit slow this days. It’s really annoying especially when you have works that need to be finished immediately. Thanks for these tips.
I apparently didn’t know a lot of these things. Hopefully this would help speed up my computer. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for sharing this! My computer’s been really slow lately and I have no idea what’s going on. I’m not that much of a techie. It’s good to know with a couple of keywords I can land information like this.
Nice and good information about Computer Speedup
My computer is not working well. I have been planning to call a technician, but thanks to you, I have tried all of your suggestions and my computer is back in business. I mean it is back in its original speed! Wow!
Hi sandra,
Am glad that this post helped you get your Computer back. Make sure you keep these tips in mind for the future.
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Indeed some excellent piece of advice. It really annoys me a lot when my computer runs slow.. I need to delete a lot of unused and unwanted content from my PC..Thanks for the share.
My Dell laptop is working really slow and it has certainly become a headache for me. I will try incorporating some of the tips mentioned in the post, such as making free space in the memory to overcome the problem. Thanks for the helpful tips. Really needed!!
SSD is what saved me from crashing my PC. Your tips are useful, but replacing old HDD for SSD can make it times faster!
I so needed these tips to speed up my computer which has been acting weird recently. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the great tips. The all time favorite is to back up your data. I’ve seen countless people lose valuable data and then say,” I forgot to do a backup”. Usb thumb drives are inexpensive and nice to use to back up small quantities of data.
Thanks for these tips.My PC used to get lag on certain occasions, I used CC Cleaner and uninstalled unwanted software’s. It helped me to solve this problem.
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Same here.
I have been using SuperRam but this tip helped me a lot
Thanks for sharing
MJ
I think my absolute favorite tip here is “turn off your internet, when you’re not using it.” This is so very true, especially when it comes to having content just dump all over in your computer.
I use Auslogics Boostspeed…which does almost all of this for me. That, and switching to a SSD has increased my performance drastically.
Thanks for the great tips!
I would like to let you know one more point that avoid saving all files in desktop itself. Make the desktop clean & green!
Thanks for the addition Chris!
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My Lenovo Laptop was too slow. I ringed to PCSupportRobo customer Support 1-800-246-7990 and my problem resolved within few sec.I use Auslogics Boostspeed…which does almost all of this for me. That, and switching to a SSD has increased my performance drastically.
I use CCleaner and Tuneup Utilities to delete temporary files and speed up my computer. It really works!
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These 5 ways are effective. I tried it out and my pc run faster. These awesome. This post can help a lot. Keep posting
My desktop Pc is running very slow even i have run disk cleanup wizard. There is up to 8gb is free on c driver but don’t know why its crawling like turtle.
I hope by following these tips i ‘ll get some speed up.
Sure Devid, You will surely get some speed by applying these tips
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Thanks for sharing some of the best tips these are some of the best helpful ways to get your Computer boost nevertheless your are on any platform …
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Thanks for the tips but using registry cleaners and temporary files cleaner like hijack this are also very helpful in these case
This was actually a really interesting reading about the importance of keeping your computed at its best. I am glad I found this and got to read it because mine is actually suffering a bit of slowness.
I like this post as it helps me increasing my computer speed. Thanks Joseph Adediji.
Am glad I could help Malik
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Yes, but the most important to speed up the computer is upgrading the hardware such as the proccessor, RAM, Motherboard, VRAM, etc. Yes, If you have a good computer hardwares then you get high speed of the computer. That’s my opinion.
About 2 weeks ago I gave my laptop a complete overhaul, removing unwanted programmes, A full securitu scan with several pieces of software, disabled quite a few startup programmes too….it seems to run so much quicker now.
Its surprising how much accumilates on your computer in a short space of time…Always a good idea to keep on top of it.
Great post!
Hi Jon,
it is really good to have a complete overall once in a while, that is the best way to keep our laptop in optimum performance.
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hey Guys, I am also using CC cleaner to clean my dump files. It is great, just two clicks and everything unwanted gone from your PC. The tips given in this article are really useful for everyone, I am regularly running %temp% and cleaning temporary files.
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When installing software make sure not to install all the additional software that is set to install by default.
I am using clocking for speeding up computer. Anyways thanks for the tip.
Thanks for sharing some of the best tips to speed of computer really effective and appreciative
Nice tips. Always helpful when we don’t have that paid softwares at hand to do the job. I was using dustbuster and system mechanic in past but Nowadays I am using Eusing reg cleaner and inbuilt system file cleaner from the windows itself.
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Nice tips I must say.
I always like to keep my PC clean from unwanted programs and regularly use CCleaner to clear temporary files. Also I clean my PC’s internal components once in a while.
These are small things but result into great boost.
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My laptop was creeping along and I tried all of the Windows 7 options to speed it up. I installed a free program called Speeditup and it made things much faster.