Speed up my computer

Are you fed up of your slow computer problem? Have tried every possible solution? And still a concern arises again and over again how to speed up my computer? For me this is not unusual to hear such concern and over again. Whenever I come across any such situation I abruptly ask to check your hardware compatibility and if the hardware part is sufficient enough to run the operating system and other application software that are running on the hardware. It is because there is no alternative for any hardware fault and we merely have an option to replace the existing and affected hardware.

Apart from this, one of the major concerns if your PC continuously slows is- memory. Memory needs to be sufficient enough to load the application while they run. Though both kinds of memory is necessary essential for each and every computer machine irrespective of any operating system you are running upon it. For windows 7 the random access memory now required is 1GB at least, for vista it used to be 512MB. There is an irony though the minimum required memory for windows vista is 512 yet on 512 of random access memory you may experience many performance related issues. For an instance windows XP can run on 256MB RAM, but when we use just 256MB of RAM the PC goes slow and performance issue arises very often.

On the other hand the secondary or hard drive memory space is also required especially on the drive where your OS is installed. It is said at least 15% of total drive capacity should be free where your OS is installed. Even windows defrag utility works if there is at least 15% space is left blank. Remember certainly windows might have been tested on less memory space drive and it might have been passed but when we use windows with hundreds of programs it can create performance issue. This is why we very often hear the concern how to speed up my computer.

Another aspect of memory issue is virtual memory. Virtual memory also plays an important role to load huge applications that go beyond your random access memory’s capacity. In this situation virtual memory plays the role and loads such huge applications into the memory so that they can be processed. Internally virtual memory uses your hard drive’s space and works as if main memory.

Another important reason behind slow computer can be CPU or processor’s usage. You may easily check your CPU usage from windows task manager which shows all the processes and CPU usage by a particular application. If any particular process is taking greater participation in CPU usage this can be a cause of your PC especially when you are running an application. Thus make sure your CPU usage is fair enough and distributed equally among all the processes that are currently running in the machine.