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My computer had been under performing for a while and I was thinking of getting a new one. I went through all the computer sites like Dell and PC World they all had some great offers on. What did strike me though was that the spec on new computers was not so diffrent from that of my current machine and an upgrade would be expensive. Once I had realized this I decided to pursue a different course of action and find a way to get my current computer running faster.

I began my research on how to make the computer run faster online. I searched for "fix my slow computer" on MSN and it brougt up a lot of results, most of these results where software programes which might be useful but first I wanted to find an unbiased guide to what could be done. I eventually located this a few pages down the search results.

The guide began with a few simple steps such as removing unused items from the desktop and getting rid of programs such as I tunes which run as soon as you load the computer up. This made the computer load quicker but did not change the overall speed.

he guide began with a few simple steps such as removing unused items from the desktop and getting rid of programs such as I tunes which run as soon as you load the computer up. This did make the computer load faster but didn’t really change the overall running speed of it. After that the guide stated I needed to defrag my hard drive. This took a fair while to do but dint involve me doing much bar seeting it running. After I had defraged the hard drive I did notice an improvement in performance but I still felt that I could get more out of the computer so I went on to the next step, The next step was to repair any windows registry errors on the computer. These errors cause the computer to run slowly. Fixing them involved getting a free scan and then once the errors have been identified paying a small amount of money to get them fixed. Fixing the errors did make a big difference although I still think a new computer would have been better.

I assume that the problem of a slow computer is what that many people suffer from so I wrote this account of how I fixed mine to help. So lets begin with looking at what was wrong with it. Well in the time I had owned my computer its performance had fallen of gradually but significantly. The computer now took a lot longer to boot up than it had done previously and program's were much slower to respond than before and frequently crashed with the message “program has stopped responding”.

I had of course thought about replacing the computer but this seemed to me like an expensive option epically as I was not trying to do anything which the computer had not been capable of in the past. So I began to search the Internet for a solution and I came across www.fix-this-computer.com a web site offering advice on getting the most out of your computer. I took a good look around the site and tried the virus checker and the spy ware checker. These scans didnt find anyhting but then i cam across the section of the web site about windows registry errors. I read the text in this section and the symptoms sounded just like mine so I decided I probably had registry errros. I visited the the link offering a free scan and was directed to a software site where I downloaded software that scanned my computer for registry errors. The program found an amazing 307 errors on my computer. I elected to purchase the software to fix these problems and upon purchasing a license was given a password to upgrade the software from the trial version. Once I had the software it was easy and the software was scanning my computer in minutes. It took about ten minutes to fix all the errors and since they were repaired the computer has ran like a treat.