5 Ways to Speed up Your Windows 7 PC

As time goes by, you may encounter these computer problems, such as forgot password Windows 7, blue screen, and slowly responsive computer that happened to everyone. How to boost its performance, and is it possible to fresh it like a new one? Here are the tips.

Tip 1 Get the latest and light antivirus software

Besides threatening user privacy, spyware also hampers computer's performance, thus you need an antivirus product. But it is not enough - the AV product should be updated timely and put little footprint on system.

The antivirus software is a very crucial program on computer; you should pay more attention to choose a better one. Though every antivirus manufacturer touts their product as the best, the reality is that some are better than others. Avast free antivirus and AVG antivirus free edition are recommended.

Tip 2 Remove Unneeded Files and Programs

In your daily PC use, Windows temporary files, Internet cache, cookies, invalid shortcuts, unused or less used programs accumulate and eat much space on your hard drives. Develop a habit to periodically check and clean them from your PC by CCleaner, or similar tools.

You also can use Windows 7 built-in Disk Cleanup curriculum to remove the junk files, which can be found in Disk Properties or Start > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup.

Tip 3 Remove Unwanted Startup Programs

Startup programs run automatically when your start the PC, as the more programs to be loaded, the more startup time will be required. So have a look at those startup programs, you might find many of those starts up without your notice and needs not no loading on the system boot up at all.

To disable unwanted programs from running on startup, click Start, type msconfig and hit Enter. In the System Configuration window, go to the Startup tab and uncheck the programs that you don’t want to run upon startup.

Tip 4 Scan & Repair Registry

Registry supplies necessary information and settings for Windows to run software and hardware smoothly. The registry entry changes during computer using process, such as installing software. If Windows Registry is full ¿f unused keys and errors, system will become sl¿w, freeze 0nd even crash.

Since a malfunction registry can cause serious hurt, to avoid this risk, using a registry cleaner to scan useless registry keys and repair registry errors.

Tip 5 Defrag Hard Disks

Y¿ur hard drive may be full ¿f fragmentation over time, which slows down Windows. Microsoft OS, including Windows 7 provides the built-in Defragmenter tool that can be got in Tools tab from hard disk properties. With it, you can remove empty patches, part package files together, and put the stored files in one contiguous piece, thus increasing th5 speed ¿f writing/reading files t¿ / fr¿m disk.

Besides these approaches to speed up windows 7, you should learn the ways to solve system problems as well, such as creating windows 7 password reset disk in advance to change lost login password, and creating system repair disk to troubleshoot system errors.