Spruce Up Your Computer Perforamce and Internet Connection

[Jaaa!&]

Computer Performace:1. Use a Registry Cleaner.

 

This will free up resources show you how to increase PC speed with a few clicks. This is one of the best answers to "how to speed up PC performance?". These easy point and click programs also defrag your hard drive and remove spyware. All that with the push of a button weekly will keep your computer running at it’s original PC speed specs. There are dozens of different registry cleaners software and registry cleaner tools available for use with the registry, However only about 5 have really proven themselves based on user support. One of the industry leaders is RegCure. It was last year's Most Popular PC Repair product. RegCure is the easiest and best. It’s easy to get scammed with inferior products so it’s best to choose a registry cleaner with an excellent record.For an in depth comparison of the best registry cleaner on the market, click this link.

 

2. Defrag your hard drive

 

Over time, the data on your hard drive gets scattered. De-fragmenting your hard drive puts your data back into sequential order, making it easier for Windows to access it. As a result, the performance of your computer will improve. An excellent registry cleaner will allow show you how to speed up your PC using defrag techniques. For Easy Steps to Defrag your PC Click Here!. Remember that the hard drive is the cornerstone of your system. If it is in trouble your system can collapse.

Tips to Speed Up Your Hard Drive Click Here! If you are interested in speed up your computer on the net. Click the image below. If not read on.

 

3. Scan for Adware/Spyware and Viruses

 

These nasty little worms can wreak havoc on your PC speed. Detecting and cleaning viruses is an excellent way to improve your system's performance and increase PC speed. Registry cleaners will help to remove these buggers also!To Learn more a about the best Spyware removal programs on the maket, Click this link

 

4. Adjust your computer’s Visual effects

 

Windows provides a number of resource hogging and interesting visual effects like animated windows and fading menus. These effects, however, can slow down your computer and kill your PC speed. By Altering your preferences and performance needs you can learn how to increase PC Speed in seconds. This is one of Microsoft's tips on how to increase PC speed and performance.Visit Adjust Visual Performance page for assistance.

 

A excellent registry cleaner can perform all but number 4. If you are serious about learning how to speed up PC performance. Get a registry cleaner and let it do most of the work. There are lot of registry cleaner choices on the market. Learn how to increase PC speed organically and don't get scammed into spending thousands for a new PC.

 

Bonus Tips

 

Use a Window's Optimization Tool

 

Using a Windows Optimization tool can give you a big boost in the the performance department. This takes the work out of your regular maintenance of organizing files, defragging your hard drive and other optimization task. For Windows Optimization Tools, Click Here!

 

Manage Your Startups

 

By managing your Windows startup programs and services you can free of vital CPU resources that can re-allocated your PC performance. This is a quick and easy tweak learn how to speed up PC CPU access time. Click Here to Learn how to speed up PC performance by managing your Startups.

 

Clean Windows Temp Files

 

Your Windows Temp files can swell to enormous sizes. This will eat up free space that could be allocated for applications you would like to use. Learn how to clean up your PC of useless files

 

Internet Speed:

 

Check your internet speed

 

You can check your internet connection by hover your mouse pointer over the internet connection icon in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. A pop up window will display your internet connection. You can also click the icon to launch the Properties window.

 

 

 

 

 

The graphic shows a connection that is using a wireless router so in addition to your internet speed, log on duration and status, you will also see the signal strength. You can get more accurate test by using online broad band test sites. If you are getting 80% of your ISP advertised speed, You are in good shape. There is usually a standard loss of 10-20% speed due to line quality. So if your are supposed be getting 1.5mbs and your internet speed runs around 1.25mbs, you have a good connection.

 

4 Steps to Speed A Slow Internet Connection.

 

STEP 1: REDUCE THE WEB CACHE

 

First step in speeding up your slow internet connection to tweak your internet options. To launch the internet options utility follow the the direction below:

1.Click Start

2. Click Control Panel

3. Double Click Internet Options

4. Click Settings under Browsing History

 

The task here is to make your web cache as small as possible. The less disk space your reserve for your temporary files is less data that your computer needs to search through. This action can easily award you a faster connection on the net.

 

5. Reduce the Disk Space to Use to the minimum recommended amount or as low as your desire.

 

STEP 2: CLEAR TEMP FILES

 

Deleting your web cache is a good way to speed up a slow internet connection. These files take up valuable resources that could be used to for a better net surfing experience. Remember that while you are online many files in the web cache are active. Cookies are loaded in your browsers and constantly update themselves. Also your computer will search through the temp files to match the latest version of a web page. So, by clearing the web cache you cut down on the work your PC needs to do thus speeding up your slow internet connection. Remember to shutdown the browser when deleting the cache. Because what files are open will not be deleted. Here how to delete your temporary internet files.

 

Manual steps to erase your temporary internet files.

 

1. Quit Internet Explorer, Firefox, or any other web browser

2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet Options.

3. On the General tab, click Delete Files under Temporary Internet Files.

4. In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the Delete all offline content check box , and then click OK.

5. Click OK.

 

If you prefer not to delete all the files you can selective search each category and delete. The temporary files are broken up into six categories. To view your internet files follow the steps below:

In Internet Explorer

 

1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. Choose Internet Options from the Tools menu.

3. Click the General, Under Temporary Internet Files, Click Settings.

4.Click View Files

5. Delete selected files

 

The goal here is to cut down on the files your computer needs to search through. Alternate methods can be used to clear the web cache and other unnecessary data. Check out Clean Up A Slow Computer for more tips.

 

 

STEP 3: SPEED UP WEB PAGES

 

One of the biggest culprit of slow internet connections. Is your web browser's settings. When you log on to a web page, your computer is assaulted with data it needs to organize and present in an orderly manner. This information takes time to load. So, the more information the longer it takes to load. However you tweak a number of settings to decrease the time it takes to load a web page. By reducing the amount of animation and scripts. You can see drastic increases in your internet surfing.

1.Click Start

2. Click Control Panel

3. Double Click Internet Options

4. Click Settings

5. Scroll down to Multimedia.

6. You can reduce the options in order to increase speed at which web pages are loaded.

 

 

By restricting your browser to display only text is the fastest option.

 

STEP 4: CONTROL YOUR ANTIVIRUS

 

A slow internet connection is often a software related problem and not the fault of your ISP. Buying more bandwidth is always going to help. Slow down is a normal result of having security software like an anitvirus on your computer. The software must constantly update it files and signatures. All this information is logged in your computer. The majority of the information is placed in your registry.

 

When your antivirus performs a scan. It produces a log. This log can be up to 100 megabytes of information each. The registry holds all this info. The addition of the info is not the major problem. Its that the information is placed in many places in your registry. This causes fragmentation of files. Your computer's operating system must search through the massive files in the registry constantly. If the registry is error-filled, fragmented, or bloated with unnecessary and duplicate files, you will have major slowdown. Organize and keep it maintained, the problem will most likely be solved. You can scan to see the condition of your registry and see what resources you can unlock resources.Click Here to SCAN your registry

 

Also you should try to see what processes are loaded when your computer starts. Often the antivirus will check your email, scan, and even update at the same time. This may be occurring everytime you start up your PC. These acts can last as long as 3 hours. They may be running silently in the background without your knowledge. Maintain them by following the directions below or by tweaking the settings in your antivirus:

 

1. Open your Start menu.

2. Click Run

3. In the command screen type msconfig.exe

4. In the system configuration utility,click either service or startup

tab5. Uncheck all programs that you dont want to load win the antivirus is starting

6. Click OK

 

TIPS FOR FIREFOX BROWSER

 

The browser is configured to load one web page or "request" a time. You can alter these settings to increase the amount of information that can flow into Firefox's pipeline.

 

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

 

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

 

2. Alter the entries as follows:

 

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

 

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

 

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

 

3. Finally, right-click the black space and select "New" and choose Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

 

 

Sources:

http://www.delete-computer-history.com/how-to-speed-up-pc.html

http://www.delete-co...connection.html

 

 

If this doesn't seem to help, you can PM me or start a topic under PC Support to get help from others whom are not just me.

Edited March 30, 2018 by Fearless Staff

[Jorz]

Never use registry cleaners or optimasation tools,i once used an optimasation tool and my proccesor died out,as for registry cleaners,they are useless,having empty entrys doesnt harm performance at all,if you want a clean registry format every year.

[Jaaa!&]

It depends really, if ones computer is over 3 or 4 years old, its just best to not worry about optimasation tools, puter might not be able to handle it.

 

As for registry cleaners, its very useful. Malware and Spyware like to hide in those places, now you don't need a cleaner per say, one can just use Malwarebytes to detect items hiding in the registry.

[ohurcool]

Perforamce

[Vanaraud]

Defragmentation + cleaning say 200-500 registry issues= noticable performance boost.

[ZeeKoh]

Properly defragging and cleaning your system registry CAN and WILL definitely make a very noticeable difference to system performance. The registry is a very large and complex place, and having empty registry keys will most certainly have an adverse effect on your system. Microsoft/Windows' tools suck, and so, the built in registry tool, which Windows uses to manage it's registry, sucks as well, and fails to maintain it properly. If your registry becomes cluttered up with too many uninstalled programs, orphaned startup tasks, corrupted drivers, spyware/adware entries, file paths for files that have been moved or deleted and many, many more things, you'll begin to notice a significant decrease in speed. If you fail to keep your registry clean, you WILL certainly notice your PC suddenly crashing, more and more, as your operating system becomes unstable.

 

It's not a matter of whether or not this will happen to your PC. It's a matter of how much time, or use, it will take before it does. If you don't often install things, or you leave them installed, not moving any files around, and things like that, then you likely don't need your registry cleaned all that often. But if you're like any other average computer user, you download things at least on a bi-daily to weekly basis. Installing updates or new games or removing programs/games for extra space on your drive, copying/pasting files to different places on your drive.. all that jazz. Those people definitely should clean out their registry once in a while. Neglecting an over-cluttered, un-defragged registry will certainly make your OS slow to a crawl, and eventually, stop working or break. Regardless of how good your computer is.

[Grim The Reaper]

Listen carefully , If you don't know that every time you defrag your pc there's space that's lost that you can never have back then you shouldn't defrag your pc and you are most likely defragmenting it too often. It is possible to defrag your pc until you have absolutely no space left to support system resources. If you aren't going to learn what you did to mess it up it's going to happen again and again and again and you are going to have to fix it again and again and again causing detrimental damage to your hard-drive. Computer repair isn't for everyone .

Edited March 28, 2011 by Grim The Reaper

[rolf]

Listen carefully , If you don't know that every time you defrag your pc there's space that's lost that you can never have back then you shouldn't defrag your pc and you are most likely defragmenting it too often. It is possible to defrag your pc until you have absolutely no space left to support system resources. If you aren't going to learn what you did to mess it up it's going to happen again and again and again and you are going to have to fix it again and again and again causing detrimental damage to your hard-drive. Computer repair isn't for everyone .

Semi-right.

 

The space that is lost, is something you regularly won't find back either. What basically happens is that if you remove a file, it is not really removed from the hard disk but the reference to it is removed. However, if your operation system thinks "hey, i need space", it may or may not overwrite it. If you depend on that, you're screwed anyway.

 

 

Moreover, defragmentation is actually VERY useful. The slowest thing in a current PC is the hard disk, every thing you want random access will take some nanoseconds, with hard disks you count in milliseconds, about 1000times slower than the rest of your PC. Defragmentation will only place the interesting parts closer together, such that it is not scattered over the whole disk anymore (note: for partitions, it will only place together it in the partitions itself). The random access time remains terrible, but it will increase the performance.

 

 

Last note; NEVER defragmentate solid state disks. They will remain fast, even without defragmentation, and defragmentation will only screw up the SSD. With enough time, literally.

[Vanaraud]

Well if your OS will loose some space on HDD then you have always oppurtunity to format HDD to gain it back. So I don´t see how defragmantation is bad.