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Is your computer becoming slower and slower each day? Everyone who owns or uses a computer experiences this problem sooner or later. There are a few things you can try to get your computer running faster again.

Every day you use your computer it accumulates more and more “junk”. Most of this junk is temporary files that are only used once or twice, and then just sit on your computers hard drive. The majority of these temporary files are the result of surfing the internet.

The first thing we can do is delete all of your temporary internet files. This is a task that should be done every week or so, depending on how often you use the internet. On your internet explorer menu, choose Tools, then Internet Options.

Internet Explorer Options

Every computer that I have ever owned has gradually gotten slower over time, often to the point where it becomes barely usable. This has frustrated me for years, so I thought I’d share a solution to one of the major causes of this drop in performance – windows registry problems.

The windows registry is a database on your computer that contains information on how your software and hardware should work. Each time you install a program it puts entries in your registry that contain the options and settings which help your computer run the program. For example, take a program that starts up immediately when you turn on your computer, like an anti-virus program. When you install a program like this, it puts an entry in your registry that tells your computer to start this program every time you turn on your computer.

Often, when you uninstall a program, its registry entries are not all correctly removed. This means that over time, the longer you use your computer, and the more programs you install and uninstall, the size of your registry gets bigger and bigger. This can cause your computer to slow down. Because your registry is so big, it takes windows longer to find the required entries each time you start a program.

Another problem that occurs when registry entries aren’t correctly removed is when you uninstall programs that run on startup, but the entry in the registry telling your computer to start the program each time you turn on your computer is left behind. This means every time you start your computer, it tries to run a program that no longer exists. This can cause large delays and sluggishness when you first start your computer.

There are hundreds of other more complex errors that stem from your registry, these can cause anything from slow startups and program load times to major crashes. If your computer is running slow, or is giving mysterious error messages, try getting a registry scan and clean.