There are various different ways that you can speed up your computer. For example, sometimes registry files can be to blame for your slow computer speeds. Other times, it may mean your computer has a virus or other infection deep in the system core. Whatever may be the case, there are several ways you can speed up your computer with just a few minutes of work.

One of the best things you can do is run a simple virus scan. Most virus scans will tell you if you have a trojan or other virus messing with your computer. Run the entire scan, remove any infections and then restart your computer to continue your journey of increasing your computers speed. The next step in speeding up that computer is to run a malware, adware, spyware scan. AdAware is a great program for this, and can save you plenty of time from having to switch to a different program for each different type of possible infection. These different types of infections can be a real pain to your computer, and affect core system files including the registry. They also may be stealing passwords and other information typed into your computers keyboard. Removing them will increase your computers speed, remove any annoying ads, as well as allow you to change your internet explorer home page if you were unable to. Make sure to restart your computer once you have finished this step.

Now that you have done a full system sweep for possible infections and wares on your hard drive, you need to remove them from the registry. Sure, the anti-virus will remove most of them, however, some infections can hide deep inside the registry where your anti-virus may not scan. In order to remove them you will need a registry cleaner that can get that deep. Once you have your registry cleaner scan the registry, find the problems, and fix them, you should restart your computer. This step will really increase your computers speed, even if previous steps did not.

Another great way to increase your computers speed is to check what is in the startup folder. Many people install large numbers of games, and other programs on their computers and then never uninstall them when they never use them. However, by doing this you are starting thousands of extras files and several extra processes during bootup. Not only will this slow down your computer, but it fills up your hard drive with things that you will never use! Check your windows task manager for processes and see if there are some that you never use. If you do not use them, uninstall the programs using the add/remove feature in control panel. While all of these steps will help increase the speed of your computer, you need to speed up computer using a registry editor that has been proven to remove each and every small file that could be polluting your registry. Doing so will help your computer's health improve amazingly fast!