Windows 7 Slow Down
Posted in Software on May 21st, 2010 by Ralph Walker – Be the first to commentAre you having troubles with Windows 7 slow performance? Did you find that you first installed it was running much faster, but now after a while it has become slow? In this article I’m going to be talking about why Windows 7 sometimes slows down, and what you can do to make it faster.
Windows 7 is designed right out the box to be a highly optimised operating system. One of the main design goals was to make it faster and more efficient than Windows Vista, as well as more secure. But there are some problems which have plagued all Windows operating systems since the beginning, and Windows 7 suffers from these as much as any of the earlier versions.
If your computer was running quickly and then suddenly became slow, there is one risk that you need to check out. It’s entirely possible that you have become infected by viruses or other malware. If this is the case, you need to clear them up immediately, because this software can cause serious damage to your computer system, data, and can also be used to steal confidential information from you, including passwords and banking details. There is software which can be used to delete this, and there are many free antivirus software suites that you can download over the Internet and use. It’s always best to download the antivirus before your computer has become infected, as a compromised computer is more difficult to clean. So even if you don’t have a virus infection right now, make sure that you have antivirus software running as soon as you finish reading this article.
If you notice your computer has become slow gradually over a period of time, the most likely culprit is clutter on your hard drive. When a hard drive is new and relatively empty, it will run much faster. Over time, most users download files such as videos and music, game content, webpages, and also create their own files and documents. All of this adds up to fill the hard drive, making Windows 7 slow down. Some of these files represent information or media that you want to keep; in this case, it’s not clutter. But you will find on just about any computer they can be huge amount of clutter. Delete the clutter now, and then defrag your hard disk. Just doing this can create a huge boost in speed.
In this article I’ve only had space to cover a couple of factors which can make Windows 7 slow. There are quite a few different things that can cause this problem, and usually more than one of them will be affecting your computer, so you should check out by Windows 7 optimisation site. This tells you several different things that you can do to get your computer working fast again.
To get your computer running at top speed, visit the Windows 7 Slow site and apply the simple solutions that are there.