Is Your Computer Slow Lately?

Here are a few questions for you:
*Is Your System not as fast as it used to be?
*Does your PC keep crashing?
*System not as stable as you would like?
*Receiving error messages and don’t know why?

Most of the above can be easily fixed without having to pay a technician. It may be time for a Computer Clean Up. The following instructions below will give you step by step instructions on how to ensure your PC continues to operate at its fullest potential. These instructions are relevant for machines running Windows XP and using Internet Explorer.

1. To begin, open up Internet Explorer, that’s the blue lower case letter “e”, generally shown in the lower left corner of your screen. Next click on the word Tools up at the top of your screen. Once open, click Internet Options. In the middle of that box you’ll see a section called Temporary Internet Files. Click the Delete Files button. Click the box Delete offline content too, then OK. Once that is done, click the Delete Cookies button within the Temporary Internet Files section. Click OK there too.

2. Next click the Settings button. Check for newer versions of stored pages should be clicked to Automatically if it isn’t already. Change the Amount of Disk Space to use to 8MB. Click OK twice.

3. Next go to the Start button in the very lower left corner of your screen. Click My Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Check Disk Clean up. Use offline content or anything else it asks. It will take a few moments while it is checking how much space it can clean up. When you get the new pop-up window, make sure there are checks in every box. Click OK

4. After running Disk Clean up, go to Ad-Aware, update and run the program. After running Ad-Aware, reboot your computer.

5. If your computer is still slow, your registry may have errors. You can scan your colmputer for free at the Registry Fix website.

You should perform the above maintenance about once a week. Then on an as-needed basis, run Disk Defrag, which you can find in Start, My Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defrag.

By following the above simple steps your computer should continue to run at optimum performance!