How to Make Your Computer Run Faster

Steps

1. Open up the start menu and click 'Control Panel'
2. Double click on 'Programs and Features'
3. Look at the list. Chances are there's a lot of things you'd forgotten on there.
4. Select a program you don't need any longer by clicking on it.
5. Click on the button at the top that says 'Uninstall'. (Note, sometimes it says 'Uninstall/Repair, click on that one if plain old 'uninstall' is unavailable).
6. Follow what the computer tells you. Depending on the program a different menu will come up, but common sense usually tells you what to do.
7. Delete every single file that you don't need.
8. Double check the list to make sure you haven't missed anything that takes up a lot of memory but you never actually use.
9. Open all the programs like Word Processor, Powerpoint, Paint etc, and check all the saved files there, deleting any you don't need by right clicking on the file name and pressing delete.
10. Right-click on the recycling bin icon on your desktop and press 'Empty Recycling Bin'. The pop-up that says 'Do you want to permanently delete these ___ files?' can often be a ridiculously large number.
11. Install a good anti-virus program. The best free one is AVG, but you can pay for the best spyware.
12. Restart your computer/laptop. Often to notice a change the computer needs to start up again.
13. after you do all of that go to ,,,, and click .choose the drive you want to defrag.usually its the C. drive. first it analyzes and then defrags.you should notice a huge differince in how fast programs run.
14. If you use a Windows operating system, Windows saves a file of the program you are using to make it start up faster. After years of using your computer this folder, Prefetch folder, gets filled with unused programs. This command prompt will delete this folder for you and get rid of idle processes. Simply open a notepad file, copy and paste this into line 1 without the quotes "del C:\Windows\Prefetch\*.* /Q" hit enter and on line 2 paste "Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks". Then go to save as, name it whatever you want, I chose a simple name as 'faster'. Make sure after the name it does not have faster.txt, you need to put faster.bat (The .bat extension will run it as a batch file. Once it's saved you can go ahead and run it! In a few moments the command prompt will dissappear and your programs should run more smoothly.
15. Repeat this every month or so, depending on how much you download files/create documents/powerpoints or whatever.