Like any of the other devices a standard computer will experience wear and tear. The prolonged existence of a computer’s life will always depend on how the possessor takes care of his or her computer system. Computer clean-up is the simplest way of taking concern of the computer system. It is predictable that dust and dirt will build up inside that CPU tower so customary cleaning should be obligatory.

In today’s world, everyone wants to get things done in a quicker and more efficient manner than before. Time is always of the essence and unreasonable deadlines are common occurrence for a lot of people. With that, everyone would always want their tools and equipment to be reliable and work at the highest level possible, especially when it comes to computers. It can be said that these complicated machines are the most important and most powerful tool at your disposal. A computer can do thousands of calculations for you, you can create wonderful presentations as well as document anything with a computer. Today almost any profession relies on this machine. So when it comes to a slow pc, people often get frustrated right off the bat.

A computer can slow down for a variety of reasons. One is that your computer can be overheating which means you need to purchase better ventilation for your hard drive. It could also mean that there is something wrong with your hardware such as crossed wires which can produce extreme amounts of heat. It is better of avail a computer support services before facing any major problem.

Another common reason for a computer to become slower is due to lack or Random Access Memory or RAM. To fix this problem, you can simply upgrade your RAM to higher specifications. Other common computer problems that can slow down your computer involve automatically running programs and too much programs in your computer tray, which is the bar at the lower right hand corner of the screen. To remove some of these programs you can use windows customize or if you’re using another operating system, try to check the settings and stop automatic running programs that your computer doesn’t need.

Lastly, a very common occurrence of computers slowing down is because of the computer’s registry being full or unorganized. A registry is where your operating system saves information about certain details of your computer, hardware settings and other important files that keep your machine running. Overtime this can become a complete mess. At the same time, contracting spywares and malicious programs can also mess up your registry. In order to Speed up your computer, you can use software programs known as registry cleaners. These things are programmed to clean up your registry and remove any and all malicious software that is in your database or registry.

Let me give you a bit of history. Computers in the past were programmed in what were called low level computer languages, assembler and even machine language that made the programs much more efficient. But as the years went by calls for more functionality and languages that were easier to write programs.

Then came the higher-level language compilers like Cobol, Fortran and a sudden splurge in a many others. Although these were still reasonable efficient, the fight began for compiler companies to produce more efficient ones to combat the need for that increasingly extra functionality being asked for that were slowing the computers down.

Getting back to why the “windows operating system software” seems so slow. The first release of “Windows” seemed to be pretty fast and was so (compared today’s PC’s) working on pretty low powered computers. As Windows matured and users upgraded to new versions of the windows operating system software they found that their PC’s were running slower and slower. They also found that they needed to use more and more space on their hard disks for the new operating systems.

The slowness of the windows operating system software was partially offset by buying a more powerful PC and a bigger hard disk. Buying more disk space and memory became mandatory in some cases because the new operating system could not even be installed on the old PC. There even came a time when programs users had bought would no longer run under the newer versions of windows. Talk about double whammies. It would almost appear that OS suppliers and hardware suppliers where in cahoots with each other to keep the money rolling in.

Some operating systems are more efficient than others the most efficient being “Unix” the next is “Linux” probably followed by Mac and last being the windows operating system software.

You may find that if you have “hosting” and check what your host provider is running your hosting account on, you will invariably find that it is running the “Unix” or “Linux” operating system. You will find some that are using the windows operating system software. Personally if I find this is the case I will not go anywhere near that hosting company.

Unfortunately higher-powered PC’s also makes us slack. You start off with your windows operating systems software running at a fairly fast pace but as time goes on it runs slower and slower. This is the case with any operating system no matter how efficient it is. The windows operating system software is like your car it needs maintaining periodically. If you did not maintain your car it’s performance would gradually decrease and the number of breakdowns would occur more and more often. That is why you need to do some maintenance your self and have some done by specialists. With a car you check the oil, tire pressures and other small tasks but you send your car off to the service center for the more difficult things.

With your windows operating system software you clean up your hard drive, get rid of programs you don’t use and a variety of other things. Fortunately with your PC you can do most of the maintenance yourself. If you do this you will find even though your operating system gets slower and slower you can slow down the effects a lot with periodic maintenance.

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Wilf Staton the author says also help is at hand at his blog at Windows XP Slow Startup, with others you may need the help of a software tool to do it for you.