Friday, September 20, 2013

Tips For Boosting Your Personal Computer

By Christopher Lawhorn


Whenever your laptop starts to become slow what should you do? Should you try to find ways to make it faster, or should you assume that it's outdated and give thought to purchasing a fresh one? You don't have to be throwing your hard earned dollars away. By following these tips you can make your laptop run faster without having to splash your cash.

One mistake that many are guilty of is to keep all your information in one location, or rather, on one computer. There's absolutely no need for this. By making use of an external hard drive you can still have instant access to everything you need, but without having to put such a huge stress on your laptop. Using this method you'll also ensure that you have a backup for your own data.

Go through your programs regularly, and if you encounter some you don't use, get rid of them. Having programs on your personal computer you don't use will only occupy unnecessary space. Also, it's very important that once you decide to delete the software program, you get it done properly by uninstalling it and making certain that old cached and temporary files are deleted.

You ought to also check to see if you have more than one antivirus software running. In reality you only need one, and multiple programs that are performing the same task aren't just redundant, but also wasting up precious space and memory. Discover which one is working best for you and make certain to properly remove any other antivirus programs.

An updated computer is a fast computer. Both Macs and PCs will have protocol in place to provide a way to inform you that updates are available for your own system. These updates could be quite small or they might be vitally important, so as long as they relate to programs that you are currently using, you should make sure to keep them up to date.




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