How Do I Optimize a Slow Laptop and Make it Run Faster?

Why is my laptop slow? - You must be puzzled by this question frequently. If you never take any maintenance tasks to optimize your laptop, you can perform these easy ways to deal with "my laptop is slow" issue from now on.





#1 Make sure your laptop is free from virus, spyware and trojan. A virus or spyware can make your laptop run slow or even damage the whole system. Run a security scan to find out if there are infection files hidden in the system. The slow laptop would be fixed by eliminating the virus.

#2 Remove obsolete programs to release more hard drive space. Laptop slow problem sometimes would be caused by the less hard drive space. To optimize your slow laptop, you can try to delete those unneeded programs, files from the hard disk especially the system disk.

#3 Empty the Recycle Bin to retrieve more system resource. Your laptop slow symptom maybe arises due to the deleted files in the Recycle Bin. If you forget to empty the Recycle Bin, those files in fact still exist on the hard drive and keep eating up your laptop system resource so that the laptop will run slow.

#4 Scan and fix Windows registry. Do you know how important registry is in Windows system? Corrupted, invalid or malicious registry will slow down your laptop and make it run unstable. You would receive many error messages such as dll errors, Internet Explorer errors or blue screen of death in the using of laptop. Thus, it is necessary for you to fix your slow laptop by cleaning registry errors.




Why is your laptop running so slow?

#1 Virus, trojan, adware, spyware attack and crash your laptop system. The CPU usage will be 90%-100%. You should be able to find at least one or two processes causing the CPU to go 100%.

#2 Suspicious plug-ins on Internet Explorer slow down your surfing Internet speed. That is why your Internet Explorer browser keeps freezing when you visit some web-page.

#3 Too many pictures, programs, audio/video media files have been stuffed into the windows system disk. This absolutely will slow your laptop performance down. You can not play games, watch movies, or even open folders smoothly.

#4 Registry errors. What would happen if your laptop get registry errors?

* The laptop system needs a long time to respond your every order.

* You always get blue screen of death on the laptop.

* The slow laptop keeps freezing and crashing.

* Runtime errors, Internet Explorer errors and some outlandish system errors frequently appear on your laptop.




How to fix your slow laptop quickly?

#1 Some virus would disguise as one of the processes running in the system to attack, control and steal datas. If you do not have any protection software now, please buy one. Symantec programs, McAfee, Kaspersky any one of them would be okay.

#2 In my opinion, Firefox is quite better than Internet Explorer. Any suspicious plug-ins from website trying to implant to your laptop is disallowed with Firefox. Of course, it does not matter if you insist on using IE browser and you need to disable the suspicious plug-ins in order to improve the speed of surfing Internet and also fix some Internet errors.

#3 Just remove or transfer the files out of the laptop system disk. You had better put nothing but only system files in it. Don't, remember don't install so many files programs in it. That is the first principle of fixing slow laptop.

#4 Get a free registry scan for your laptop. With the effective registry cleaners, you would be able to find how many registry errors there are on the PC easily. Lots of PC users do not believe that registry repair tools could really help them speed their computers or laptops up. Even some of them regard PC repair tools as ridiculous programs.

Well, that is not the truth. You should know how important registry is in a computer. Any registry errors would probably affect your laptop performance. Frankly speaking, more than 68% of slow laptop, computer problems are related to registry errors that include invalid registry entries, missing registry, empty registry keys and malicious registry. Therefore, cleaning registry errors is an effective method that should not be ignored to have your slow laptop fixed.