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If you have a slow computer and you don't really know exactly how to make it faster here is a little bit of insight for you. See your computer is slow mainly because of the operating system. Your computers operating system tries its best to be efficient, but that usually doesn't end up working. What happens is that your computer will start to slow down in time due to an increase in junk in many different areas of the computer.

If you have a slow computer and you don't really know exactly how to make it faster here is a little bit of insight for you. See your computer is slow mainly because of the operating system. Your computers operating system tries its best to be efficient, but that usually doesn't end up working. What happens is that your computer will start to slow down in time due to an increase in junk in many different areas of the computer.

This "junk" is what causes it to slow down and is the main reason as to why you have a slow computer. The less junk that you have on your computer, the faster it will run. It's that simple. This is why it is critical that you perform regular maintenance tasks on your computer to keep it in tip top shape.

So where do you start? One of the best places to start is with your hard drive. Your hard drive stores all of your files and if it fails, then you loose all of your files. This is why keeping your hard drive in a healthy state is critical. To do this we are going to use a programs that comes build into Windows.

Now click on the Start button, click on My Computer (if your using Vista just double click on the Computer icon to open the computer window), right click on your main drive (C:) and select the Properties option. In the Properties window, click the Tools tab and then click on the Check Now button. Now the Check Disk window should appear and you should select "Automatically Fix File System Errors" and also check off the box for "Scan For And Attempt To Recover For Bad Sectors". Click the "start" icon and if it says that you need to perform a restart just restart your computer. By the time you come back from your restart it will launch the program.

By running this program on your slow computer what you are doing is letting your computer check the hard drive for any problems or any potential problems that might occur. Then what the program does is it tries to fix these problems so that they will not develop into larger problems. These types of problems tend to occur as a result from when your computer freezes or when you do something like turn off your computer suddenly.