How Programs You Are Not Using Are To Blame For Your Computer Running Slow

by Kevin Owens on May 26, 2010

If you have had your computer for a while now chances are that it has slowed down and this must really frustrate you. But exactly why did it slow down? It all starts with the computers operating system. The operating systems is build to be as quickly and as efficiently as possible, but unfortunately after a long period of time that really doesn’t happen to be the case. What happens is that junk starts to build up on the computer and this will cause it to slow down. The obvious answer to this dilemma is to simply remove the junk and then the computer will start to run faster again, and you are right if that is what you were thinking. The only problem with this is that most people simply just don’t know where the junk builds up and they also don’t know how to remove it.

Where are the areas that junk builds up? There simply are too many to discuss in this article and there also is to many areas that you can tune to make your computer faster so what were going to do is focus on just one area so you have somewhere to start. Start with removing programs that you don’t need anymore. Why? Most people will download a program and then when they realize that they don’t need it anymore they will just leave it on their computer and move on. Why is this bad? First off, that program is taking up space on your hard drive but more importantly it is most likely running in the background of your computer and using up resources that you can be using.

Just to be on the safe side, if you are not sure of what a program is or what it does, don’t remove it – your computer might actually be using it. Only remove a program if you know what it is and what it does. Here is the procedure:

For those of you using Windows XP start off by clicking the Start button, clicking on the Control Panel icon and clicking on the Add or Remove Programs. Now just wait a little while since the list has to be created (basically the mor eprograms on your computer the longer it will take to populate). All that’s left to do now is to just remove the programs that you don’t need. To do this, just click on the program that you don’t need and selecting Change/Remove and following through with the rest of the removal process.

If you have Windows Vista, start by clicking the Start button, going to Control Panel and make sure that at the top of the window that you have “Classic View” selected. Now just double click on the Programs and Features button (it may take a few seconds for your programs to come up on the list) and just check off the programs that you don’t need and select Uninstall to remove them. Remember to only remove programs if you what they are and if you know for sure that you and your computer doesn’t need them.

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