As your computer ages is seems to slow down. This could be because hardware is getting old, but most likely it’s caused by the operating system slowing down. Viruses and spyware, if not taken care of can be the cause of the problem, but most likely it’s registry errors that accumulate over time causing the problem.
How I used to deal with my computer slowing does is that at least once a year I would back everything up and completely reload the operating system. I knew that after reloading everything and installing my applications again my computer ran considerably faster again. It was such a difference that I kept doing this.
Although this method works it’s not something that everyone can do and in many cases it’s not needed. Something to consider first before a laborious few hours reloading and reinstalling the entire system is to use a registry scanner.
The windows registry sometimes becomes bloated and can be full of errors. As this happens the computer can slow down and actually freeze up. In reloading the operating system I was essentially getting a clean registry each time. But a registry scan using a registry cleaner tool is a much simpler process.
A registry scanner is going to identify a few problems on the computer. It will find old installation files that are no longer needed that might have been a result of a program not uninstalling properly. It will find duplicate entries which at times may conflict with each other. A registry cleaner can fix dll errors and ActiveX errors and the error messages. It can even get out any embedded registry keys from things like viruses and spyware.
If you have never run a registry scan before, it doesn’t hurt to try one and see if you do have problems. If you happen to have problems on your machine which most people do, you can get them fixed and experience the improvements of a cleaner registry.
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