Top 10 Tricks How To Run Computer Faster

In Everyday Life, computer is used in every section such as marketing, education, research and home. Every user of computer will feel pain when it gets slow performance. It can be even worse when your entire task is pending due to your computer or laptop is not working properly. Your computer is slow now. Every time when you open a new application or play your favourite game or copy your data from one place to another place of device, you feel like an old person.

After a while, your computer of laptop may get congested up with junk data of file that can be a great reason of slow-moving of your system. However there’s no requirement of complete system re-install or thinking of purchasing a new computer, you can boost the performance of your system without spending any money.  

Top 10 simple tricks you should follow to run your system fast.

1. Delete the unwanted software installed on your machine

Follow the below navigation

Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a program.

Make a list of useful applications and uninstall all other application from your system by right clicking on the particular software and then click on uninstall. 

2. Remove junk file from your system

Window’s Disk Clean-up utility is very helpful to boost your system’s performance as it removes all unwanted temporary files and system files.

Click on Start button. Search by typing ‘disk clean-up’. Click Disk Clean-up utility and now you will have to select the disk to be cleaned up of junk data. Select C: drive as junk files in this drive make the system slow. Now select the type of files required to be deleted and click OK to delete them.

3. Disk De-fragmentation

After a while, on creating new files and deleting them frequently, the space on disk gets fragmented. It also leads to slow performance of the system. De-fragmentation is a tool that rearranges all fragmented space on the disk by reuniting fragmented data. After disk de-fragmentation, computer can run more efficiently.

Click Win + R, Type defrag.exe to run the disk de-fragmentation utility.

4. Turn off windows visual effects

Windows’ graphical effects give great look to the desktop but a lot of memory space is utilised and resulting slow performance of the system. If you disable this effect, it could result in fast performance.

Right-click on an empty area of desktop. A popup menu appears. Select Personalise from the list. Turn off most of the flashy effects and select Classic mode of window to speed up the system.

5. Change Indexing Option

Windows indexes your hard disk automatically for faster seek of data. But background indexing in your system would make computer performance very slow. You may opt to disable this feature to boost up the speed.

Click on My Computer icon on the desktop. In Windows Explorer, select C: drive and right click on it, go to properties of C: drive. Click on the General tab and un-check the box “Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties” and click OK. Ensure the changing to subfolders and files is selected and click OK.

6. Trim your Start-up applications

When system boots, necessary information is moved from the slower hard disk drive to faster memory i.e. RAM. If you have selected many applications to start on window start up, it may surely slow down your system after a while. So select only needful application here as low amount of information would be required to transfer on startup resulting better performance. To stop these unwanted programs to be started up while window starts up, click on Start, select all programs, select Startup. Choose all unwanted applications you want not to open while window starts up and delete them.

7. Installation of SSD

Computer start-up becomes slower as information is moving from a slower device i.e. hard drive to faster memory i.e. RAM. Trimming your start up applications solves this problem but do you know how to make hard disk faster. Installing a solid state device is the solution of this problem as an SSD is much faster than a conventional hard drive. But a SSD is more expensive and it has low capacity.

 

8. Check your Hard Disk Drive Space

To run your Computer easily at a faster speed, leave your C: partition empty with at least 20% space. Go to my computer, select C: drive and delete all unwanted file on this drive. Disk clean up utility also make this action by deleting junk files on the C: drive. If you have dumped any back up of your data on C: drive or my documents, move it or delete it.

9. In control panel, opt for higher performance to prevent hardware throttling. Go to the Performance power plan's advance setting and check the minimum and maximum of processor state. Ensure these are 100%. If you are mixed up, do the needful to correct them.

10.  Click Win + R, type “Prefetch”, “%Temp%” and “recent”, click on Ok button. Select all the files and delete them.