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by Hello_Goodbye: How to make your computer faster?

My computer takes a long time to load. What are some ways to increase the speed of your computer?

Best answer:

Answer by xXx

reformat it

Answer by ladybug

You have too many applications running when you start up. Go to run, type msconfig. Then go to the startup tab and uncheck things you do not need at startup. Then restart computer.

Answer by charlescray

Defrag it, use a memory optimization tool and use Super Prefetch if you are using Microsoft Vista. Just look through some of the programs at download.com or tucows.com. Dont get the ones that cost money, they suck. You may also want to try out Ashampoo WinOptimizer, they have a 30 day free trial. It helps stop annoying programs when you start the pc and also cleans your temp files and registry. GREAT program, check it out.

Answer by robby o

hey uglygirl, lol

um, this is a common question, and i am willing to help you.

well computer starts up slowy because of many reasons:

you may have too many programs installed, and some of these programs also start up with ur pc,

solution: try to disable this or go to startmenu programs and go to startup folder, and erase all programs in there.

another thing is, the more fonts u have on ur pc, the longer it takes to start, every font is dealing with bytes, so it has to look through a million of them if u have 1 million fonts, and so on, try to take out some uneccessary fonts ur just keep the ones u have by default and dont add too many,

you can defragment your hardrive also, go to run and type cmd, then type in black screen defrag.

you can take out uneccessary photos and files,

you can try to get speed booser programs online, but many of these usually causes more problems on ur pc,

last resort u can wipe out ur system clean and reinstall the operating system, if u have the windows xp cd or vista or whatever.

try this last one, go to internet explorer, and go to internet options and delete temporary internet files, and then delete ur recyle bin, check bin first for what u want to recycle though

hope that helps.

Answer by Noxy

Do you have a Mac or a PC? I’m not familiar with Macs, but if you’ve got a PC there’s a fairly easy thing you can do.

Go to My Computer, then right-click on your hard drive (probably C: ) and go to Properties. There should be a little Disk Cleanup button you can hit. That’ll delete a lot of extra information on your computer that you don’t need — stuff like cookies, temporary files, etc. — and free up some space.

Answer by Shawn P

there several ways to speed the computer. First Go Run and type msconfig then uncheck program execpt windows and antivirus and third party Firewall programs. Second remove or uninstalled program that you do not used anymore. Third-Install RAM memory, make sure check manufacture website (Computer System) to make sure right RAM memory is installed. Many times wrong memory can cause problems to your Operating System. Fourth Used Disk Cleanup and Defragmentation and used this everyday to remove temporary files. Fifth Run Your Antivirus and Spyware Program and make sure it is up to date and remove virus or trojans horse or worms or spyware.

This should work if you follow correctly

Answer by spywaredr

A FASTER COMPUTER

from the “Run” command in the “start” menu, type “msconfig”.

XP or Vista:

press windows key + letter R

enter msconfig

press enter

Then click on the “Startup” tab [ XP ]

and you will see everything that gets loaded on boot.

All of those things are candidate to turn off.

turn off ONLY those items that you yourself have added

You may need to start something later if it happens to be a service that is needed for a program or app.

But check it out and you should be able to get your boot speed back up to par.

Run disk cleanup, and de-fragmenter.

These applications are built-in with windows and will help you remove any unwanted files etc.

XP:

Disk Cleanup:

start

all programs

accessories

system tools

Disk Clean:

click disk drive [c] to clean

place a check in each box that shows any numbers on the right

CAUTION ,RECYCLE BIN WILL BE ON THIS LIST.

IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO EMPTY IT,…DO NOT CHECK IT !

click delete

click ok in confirmation dialog box

Disk Defragmenter:

start

all programs

accessories

system tools

Disk Defragmenter:

click analyze

if it shows that you need to defrag,click defrag now

Vista:

Disk Clean:

start

control panel

performance-information & tools

click Disk Clean

click disk drive [c or o.s. (c)] to clean

place a check in each box that shows any numbers on the right

CAUTION ,RECYCLE BIN WILL BE ON THIS LIST.

IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO EMPTY IT,…DO NOT CHECK IT !

click delete

click ok in confirmation dialog box

Disk Defragmenter:

start

control panel

performance-information & tools

advanced tools

open Disk Defragmenter

click analyze

click defrag if you’re told you need to do so

faster icon load:

XP:

start

my computer

local disk drive [c]

tools

folder options

view

uncheck auto search for network folders/printers

Connections:

start

connect to

right click connection

select properties

click networking

check print/file sharing

click uninstall

[ don't do this if you use printers ]

Internet Options:

start

control panel

internet options

general

connections

check always dial default connections [ DIAL UP ONLY ! ]

SETTINGS:

check auto detect settings

DIAL UP SETTINGS:

properties

general

configure:

uncheck show terminal window

uncheck enable modem speakers [ to get rid of electronic squeal on boot up ]

general:

options:

check include windows domain

Redial: 5 times

attempts: 1 minute

idle time: never

Redial if dropped: check

General:

security:

check typical

networking:

properties:

check obtain ip address automatically

check use dns server address

[ you need to get these from your i.s.p. and add them into the 2 boxes here.

localnet is:

207-251-201-10

207-251-201-11

DIAL UP ONLY ]

Dial up settings:

Advanced:

connect 10 times

wait time 15 seconds

uncheck:

disconnect if idle

disconnect when not needed

Dial Up Options:

What’s a modem initialization string?

Before your modem software dials a phone number, it initializes (inits) the modem by sending it a series (string) of commands, typically Hayes commands. These commands configure the modem‘s options for things like error correction, data compression, flow control, and many other parameters. The modem manual should list the Hayes commands the modem recognizes, and what effect each command has.

The important thing about modem init strings is that having the right one often makes the difference between connecting and not. Init strings are fairly specific to each modem. The string that made your friend’s modem fly may not work at all for your modem.

Not all programs use simple init strings. Some use settings files, such as Windows 95 .inf files, Mac CCL modem scripts, etc.

Tip: You may also want to try one of these generic init strings:

* AT&F

* AT&F1

* AT&F&C1&D2

* AT&F1&C1&D2

modem strings:

http://www.west.net/~jay/modem/…

Tip 2: For K56flex modems, try one of these generic init strings:

* AT&F+MS=56

* AT&F+MS=56S202=32

* AT&F1+MS=56

* AT&F1+MS=56S202=32

Where do I put the modem init string?

start

control panel

phone & modem options

modems

properties

advanced

INITIALIZATION

enter initialization string in box provided

close and reboot

in addition,install RegSeeker and delete obselete entries from here

http://browseraddons.friendpages.com

Speed up your connection

Do you remember the days of dial-up? It used to take days to log onto

the Internet. I exaggerate, but it sure was slow.

Broadband has made the Internet much easier and more fun to use. You

don’t have to suffer the modem racket and the sign-on. And pages load

faster.

Still, broadband could be much faster. For example, Japan’s broadband

can be 30 times faster than ours!

If your high-speed Internet service seems pokey, try Google’s Web

Accelerator. This free program will juice things.

It routes requests through Google servers. Popular pages are already

stored there. And the servers do nothing but handle Web Accelerator

traffic.

Web Accelerator works with both Firefox and IE on Windows machines.

http://www.komando.com/downloads

Answer by Sp T

Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some regsitry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause “computer slow”.

Everytime you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you’ve installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it’s Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Regisry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!It even can speed up your computer by 300% or more!

There are some comparison and review of TOP 5 registry cleaners.

http://www.computer-speed.info/

You can download and scan your computer for free.

Answer by TTT

Try this computer speedup tool:

http://boost-pc-performance.info

It works very well.

Answer by Table

Check out http://www.pc-optimizer-pro.info

With pc optimizer pro you can safely clean, repair and optimize your computer.

It will help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades.

Good luck!

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