We’ve all been there. Waiting impatiently for a computer to start up or to open a new program can be excruciating. Computers are supposed to be faster than we are, right? Some of you out there – you know who you are – are screaming, “Yeah, right! My computer hates me.” When your computer is slow or slower than you expect, you’ll do anything to make it speed up.
Good news: there are things that you can do to improve the speed of your computer in certain situations. Depending on whether your computer is slow to start up, or perhaps is slow to save changes or open new programs, there are solutions. Most of the time, it is simply about configuring your computer in an optimal way.
Here are some main causes of slowness:
- Too many processes happening all at once
- Too little RAM (random access memory)
- Errors in your hardware or memory
- Viruses or malicious software or processes
Again, there are some things you can do to speed up your computer. Try these. At the very least, you’ll have a more optimal setup. And you can apply one or all of these solutions no matter how slow or fast your computer is running.
Please note: The following helpful hints apply to people using PCs. If you’re an Apple user, well, apparently you should never have ANY problems, right? 
(That’s the rumor, anyway).
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Yip – Increasing Ram (even Virtual Ram) is one of the basic things that will help a computer with resource problems.
Thanks for sharing the great post and tips.
Great one Tia! Will definitely try some of your tips because my PC works really slow right now. Thanks!
Ha-ha, Apple, right
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Except the great tips above I will also add freeing as much as possible space in the hard drive and also performing registry fixing from time to time. For example you can use the program CCleaner. Another tip is to clear the cache form the browser, this will make browsing much faster if you had a big cache piled up over time.
Regards.
Hi Nikolay – Thanks for the added tip! Awesome.
Hey Tia,
Love the Apple sarcasm, tooo funny!!
Hope all is well with you and yours
Hola, Kathy! We are great and I hope you and your family are well, too!