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Friday, February 24, 2012

Speed up your computer

I have a lot of people whine that their computer whines(pun intended)! Actually with some simple steps you can keep your computer running like bolt for a long time..

1)STOP!!
 Yeah stop!!
 Any computer which is stuffed with bloatwares gets slow.A fact which many people ignore..I have seen people having all sorts of toolbars.Heck who needs all of them? Also many programs which you might never use still clutter up the system and impact performance.I recommend uninstalling all the unnecessary programs which in turn will increase your performance..If you are not entirely familiar with this please do install an excellent freeware called revo uninstaller which will help removing them.
Click here for revo download

2)Antivirus
 Windows computers are unfortunately vulnerable to all sorts of threat.Trojan, virus,worms....etc...
 The key is guarding your computer with a good antivirus program.Windows come with a tiny utility called windows defender which is practically useless.If you are running a legit copy of windows you can download microsoft security essentials.This is really good for basic protection and the best part is that its free!
Then there are other antivirus products..
Different people have different opinions on antivirus but in the end its left to you as to what suits your budget and your requirements.
The best of the lot is Norton and Kaspersky which have a near complete detection scores in AV tests.
Download security essentials

3)Cut the crap.period.
  A new computer over a period of time when subjected to installations and uninstallations of several programs will have a lot of clutter left behind.They in-turn affect the performance of your system.The best way to clean up is to remove temporary files that windows stores and tweak your registry a bit.The most popular tool for this task is Ccleaner which takes care of all these problems.Its a tiny utility which effectively speeds up your system by removing all the clutter unused registry entries.
Download here

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