15 Ways To Make Computer And Laptop Faster

Making Computer And Laptop Faster

Whenever your devices is not responding or hangs without any reason or your PC takes a lot of time to start and all such things which make your experience with your PC or laptop bad. I can understand its really too much irritating but some of devices perform too much slowly according to their hardware configuration its that all depends upon us. How we take care of our devices and make Laptop run faster.
With the passage of time desktop and laptop gets slower in speed. OS files get corrupted due to unwanted applications.
How to make your computer faster is one of the most frequently searched subject over the internet by computer users struggling hard with their slower machines. These is because Computers/Laptops start to slow down as they get older and clogged up with files, unused software and other digital debris. Even laptops with the fastest processors can also start to run slow over time. I would, therefore, like to take this opportunity to assure everyone that slowing down of your machine over time doesn’t necessarily mean you need to replace your PC with a new one or hire a computer geek to speed up your machine.

Thankfully, you can  make computer faster a lot easier than you think with few easy maintenance steps or inexpensive upgrades. I have listed here 10 proven simple tips on how to make your computer fast. You may find some of these tips have already been suggested many times before by computer experts while answering  – Making Computer and Laptop Faster.

1) Uninstall unused programs

New PCs come with a whole load of programs you will never use, and you probably don’t even know they exist.

Some programs even run background processes when you load your computer, even though you are not using them.

To remove all these pointless programs, open the Control Panel’s Programs and Features page, and have a trawl through the list of installed software. Uninstall those that you do not need, while being careful to leave programs your computer’s hardware needs (typically their publisher will be listed as the PC maker’s name or as Microsoft).

1st Step

2nd Step

2) Automatically delete temporary files

Temporary files amass on your computer through everyday tasks and can remain on your hard disk, slowing the computer down. Getting rid of these files, including your internet history and cookies, should give you a larger amount of hard disk space, speeding up your PC.

To do this, open “My Computer”, and select your local drive (usually C:\). Select the “Windows” folder and then open the folder titled “Temp”.

Use your mouse to right-click on the folder, and in the “View” options, choose “Details”. Once this is done, select all the files that are older than the current date and press the delete key. Then go to the Recycle Bin on your desktop and empty it.

Or Press Ctrl+R then type %temp% and then delete all files and folders

3) Install a solid state drive

Hard drives are the biggest cause of slow speeds and especially slow startup speeds on your PC.

While they are not cheap, installing a solid state drive, which have extremely fast read times, can speed up your startup considerably.

Solid State Drive

4) Use External Hard Disk

Even if you make sure to regularly clean out all your temporarily files, if your hard drive becomes 85 per cent full, it’s going to affect your computer’s speed.

If you regularly film videos or use your PC for recording television, then you will want as big a hard drive as you can get, upwards of 1TB in size.

External Hard disk

5) Prevent unnecessary start ups

This method will primarily affect how long it takes for your laptop or PC to startup, but often many of the programs which are launched on startup continue to run and use up your computer’s memory.

To do this, click “Start” and “Run”. In “Run”, type “msconfig” and then press enter. You should then see the “Startup” tab, with all the programs ticked the ones which will load upon your computer starting up. There is a good chance the list will contain a number of programs you might not have realised were running on your computer during startup, or even at all.

You can either manually deselect those which you do not want to load, or click “Disable All” and then select those you want to run, such as particularly important programs like anti-virus software.

Another trick can be removing all the unnecessary fonts Windows loads. Windows 7 loads more than 200 fonts on startup which can slow down the speed at which it boots up. Go to the Start Menu’s search box, search for the Fonts folder and check off all the fonts you don’t need, and click the “Hide” button in the toolbar.

For Window 7

For Windows 8 & 10

6) Get more RAM

RAM, which stands for Random Access Memory, is the temporary storage memory used by your computer and is in use when tasks are being executed by different programs. Therefore, the more programs you use, the more RAM you need, and the slower your computer will be if you don’t have enough.

A clear indicator of not having enough RAM is if your computer slows down every time you try and process large files, or it freezes will carrying out several different actions at once.

You can either add more RAM with an extra memory stick or two, or buy getting completely new memory if all the slots are taken. There is theoretically no upper limit on the amount of RAM that you can have with a 64-bit operating system, but in practical terms 4GB is more than enough for most people.

You can also find out how many RAM your computer is using in the Task Manager’s Performance tab (hit Ctrl-Shift-Esc to bring this up).

RAM

7) Run a disk defragment

Sounds complicated, but this is basically a way of reconfiguring how your hard drive stores information for maximum efficiency.

Go to “My Computer”, right-click on the hard drive and select “Properties”. Under the “Tools” tab there should be an option to “Defragment Now”.

8) Run disk clean up

Windows also includes a built-in disk de-cluttering tool called “Disk Cleanup”.

It searches through the system for unnecessary large files such as temporary Internet files, program installers, and so on.

Open Disk Cleanup by clicking “Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup”.

Disk Clean Up

9) Give your computer a static IP

Another trick for speeding up your computer loading time is to give your computer a static IP address that never changes.

When you startup your computer, it spends a decent amount of time asking the network for an IP address. Not only does having a static IP address make the network easier to manage (particularly if you have several devices using the same network), but it also cuts time off your startup.

To do this, visit the “Network and Sharing Center”, and select “Change adapter settings”. Right click on your local adapter and select “Properties”. You then need to highlight what should be titled “Internet Protocoal Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and click the properties button.

In “Use the following IP address” enter in the correct IP, Subnet mask, and Default gateway which correspond with your network setup.

Make sure to check “Validate settings upon exit” so Windows can find any problems with the addresses you entered.

To find out what your IP, subnet mask and default gateway are, go to “Start” and then “Run”, and type in “cmd”. At the command prompt, type “IPCONFIG/All” and it should come up

10) Hoover out the dust

Again, this sounds a tad radical, but dust is your computer’s enemy. It can impede airflow, which is vital to keeping your computer’s temperature down, and if your computer is overheating, it is likely it will slow down its performance to cope.

If you have a desktop or a laptop, you can take off the computer’s exterior and use a hoover on a low power setting to try and remove some of the dust. Make sure your computer has been switched off for at least 30 minutes and that all cables are disconnected before starting your clean.

Use your hoover with a small attachment, and try either the reverse setting to blow air into the vents and push the dust out, or use its standard suction to try and extract some of the dust.

11) Change the power plan of your desktop computer.

Go to the Control Panel and select Power Options. You will find a list of power plans, usually Balanced, Power Saver, and High Performance. These settings control how your computer uses power--either by lowering performance to optimize battery life, maximizing performance with major power consumption, or a balance between the two. Selecting High Performance may increase the speed and overall performance of your computer.[5]
This is only helpful if you have a desktop PC--using the High Performance setting on a laptop will drain your battery power.

12) Keep big files off the desktop.

Saving all your files and programs on the desktop may be handy, but it can really slow down your computer. The various files and programs saved on the desktop are represented by images, and these images, including the background image on the desktop, do take up memory. So it follows that more images on your desktop mean more images stored in memory, which in turn mean less memory available for other applications. If you have a lot of files, you can put them in separate folders. Create shortcuts on your Desktop for the folders or files you frequently use. By doing this, you will free up operating memory, reduce the time and frequency the hard drive is used and improve the response of your computer to programs you open and things you do. Thus keeping your desktop clean is one of the simple tips on how to make laptop faster.

Clean Desktop

13) Remove pesky viruses.

Slow computers are often the result of unwanted programs that make them sluggish. Speaking of unwanted programs, malware, spyware or viruses running in the background and taking up system resources, can seriously slow down your system. They may record everything you do, or send out spam. Get rid of these, and you will be surprised to see how faster your system is running.

Install a good security software and keep it up-to-date to combat these viruses. ‘AVG’ and ‘Avast’ are two good free options. I would also suggest installing free version of ‘Malware-bytes Anti Malware’ for manual scanning and removal of spam.

14) Error-checking.

Another inbuilt window tool for checking and fixing bad sectors with error in drives. This feature scan and fixed all error from depth which occurs within hard drive space. So by checking and fixing them your overall drives performance will become much better. It fixes all the unwanted errors which lead to loss memory and free all the storage space from unwanted errors.

Error Checking

15) Restart your PC routinely.

Finally, one of the best and easy tips in the list of how to make your laptop faster is to restart your machine at least once daily. This would clean up all the unnecessary background processes and the junk which are in RAM that eat up lot of energy and slows down your PC.

Conclusion

By going through these proven tips on Making Computer/Laptop Faster, you must have by this time realized that making your Laptop or Computer run faster is not difficult and, in most cases, not expensive. Deleting unnecessary programs and files and running a few simple utilities are even easier and faster ways to get rid of computer sluggishness. It is a proven fact that by implementing the 15 simple techniques suggested above on what makes a computer fast, you can restore your PC to its full speed a lot easier than you think at a fraction of the cost of buying a new one.

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