slow computer

[Demon_Skeith]

sooner or later our computer gets slow on us and we do everything we can from keeping ourselves from bashing it with a base ball bat. But I'm wondering how to keep my computer from getting slow and I am wondering if anyone knows of something that can prevent it. I can usually keep a eye on weather my computer will be slow via the windows task manger and keeping a eye on the CPU usage.


I have used a restart to fix the slowness but sometimes this don't work for very long and usually everything running in my processes are something that needs to be running.

 

[froggyboy604]

You can use the Windows Classic theme and disable all your visual effects. This is a good article by MS. It has almost everything you can do to improve your performance in Vista and 7 : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-vista/Optimize-Windows-Vista-for-better-performance

Another article http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-vista/Ways-to-improve-your-computers-performance

I find using Bleachbits helps: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/ since it deletes all the unneeded junk files from my PC

I find my PC performance increase when I run scandisk and defrag on the hard drive once a month or more.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

You can use the Windows Classic theme and disable all your visual effects. This is a good article by MS. It has almost everything you can do to improve your performance in Vista and 7 : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-vista/Optimize-Windows-Vista-for-better-performance

Another article http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-vista/Ways-to-improve-your-computers-performance

I find using Bleachbits helps: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/ since it deletes all the unneeded junk files from my PC

I find my PC performance increase when I run scandisk and defrag on the hard drive once a month or more.

I rather have nice looking visual effects, but right now I need better performance then looks so I did that and I noticed a nice boost in speed.

I just used bleachbits and it worked really well, the program spent ten minutes deleting my java cecha. :o