Windows runs great on a brand new PC, but over time, it gets
slower and slower until it reaches the point where you might have to
wait for a few minutes for it to load in the first place. Part of this delay is down to the accumulation of unwanted files and a
defragmented hard disk, and Windows' Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter
utilities are there to help you with those problems.If you’ve tried those and still have to twiddle your thumbs while
Windows loads, here are two more things you can try to speed things up.
1. Hard Drive
Part of the problem with slow PC start-up times is the hard drive. Hard
drive technology is inherently slow, but you can remedy this by
replacing it with a solid-state drive, or SSD.
Since they have no moving parts and store data on chips much like a USB
flash drive, SSDs are extremely fast and can give a new lease of life
to an old PC that’s running slowly. It doesn’t make much sense to fit
one to a PC that’s more than a few years old, though, since the
processor and other components are also likely to be contributing to the
general snail’s pace of the machine.
The only catch is that SSDs are much more expensive than hard drives of
a similar size, but prices are coming down all the time.
2. Unwanted Applications
A new PC should run super smoothly fresh from the box, but some
manufacturers have the unfortunate tendency to preinstall so many
unwanted applications that using Windows can still feel like wading
through treacle. The solution is a free application called PC Decrapifier.
Download and install PC Decrapifier from www.pcdecrapifier.com - there’s nothing to catch you out during the installation. Run it and click the big blue Analyze
button to see what it finds on your PC. You can then choose from a list
of recommended programs to remove, but look through the list carefully
to check that there’s nothing there you actually want to keep.
From BT News on Email Login Page, 21 March 2015
