Every now and
then, I get calls from people in the office, at home and in the other places to
help them fix one computer problem or the other. Often a time, the problem is a
slow computer. That is natural, however, you could make it fast again by doing
some simple things. Today, I’m going to share my quick computer tech support
101 tips.
Clean up the computer
The first thing
I like doing is to look for files and programs that are not important and then
delete or uninstall them. Some great
places to look for files to be deleted is the recycle bin, downloaded files
that are no longer of use, and temporary Internet files. After you have deleted
these files and programs, you should defragment the hard drive as well.
Check the security tools
Check to see
what security tools are installed. Without a good security tool, the computer
is a host to all sort of malicious software that are not only eating resources
and making the computer too slow but also are sending data somewhere else. Get a
trusted antivirus and a good antispyware; run them and then remove any threats
present on the computer.
Computer Specs
This is the part
you cannot offer an immediate solution too. That is to say if the
grade in terms of specs of the computer is too low. A super-duper laptop or
desktop computer is one that will not choke when playing games or when running computer
simulations. Such a computer must have a high-end graphics card, a high-end
processor, large capacity hard drive to accommodate large files and strong
motherboard to boot. Not everyone needs or has this type of computer though. If
the specs are pretty poor, the first thing I recommend doing is adding RAM.
This will make the biggest difference to the average user.
Limit the number of start up applications
The other thing
you can do is limit the number of start up programs. Start-up programs are not
only annoying when you turn on your computer but they also use up resources.
The tips above
are pretty simple. The tips above can solve a good percentage of your computer
problems.
