No one is happy when a computer fails to work properly in any way. The problem that annoys my customers more than any other is when their computers slow down. Computer slowdowns happen all the time. So do errors and crashes. Are you having any of these problems? Let’s find out what’s wrong.

Standing between us and a superbly operating computer is spyware and viruses. These two troublemakers are similar to one another. Viruses take a different track in the way they attack a PC. Viruses are out to get your computer only. Spywares mission is to get information about you; it just happens to cause your computer to act up as it goes about its evil work.

You Must be Virus Free

If you happen to have a virus scanner installed on your computer, run it. Don’t worry if you had it set up to an automatic scan, this virus scan will be our starting point. If you think your virus scanner may not be the best or if you dont have one at all, Google something to the effect of “free virus scan,” you will be overwhelmed with offers. Of course, if viruses are found, you will have to pay to activate the virus cleaning function of the scanner.

If the virus scan finds nothing or you have a virus removal tool remove viruses, do a spyware scan. Once again, if you don’t have one, do a Google search for “best antispyware free scan.” You will find a good free antispyware scan on the page that comes up.

Making Sure We Clear All Problems

It is nice to be able to get a free spyware scan, but don’t confuse this with a free spyware cleaner. Free spyware cleaners can cause more problems than they correct. A good free scanner requires a payment to activate its cleaning function. So, if your free scan uncovers spyware or adware, you need to essentially buy the spyware cleaner. This, in my opinion is dirt cheap compared to the financial horrors spyware could cause a person.

Now that we know we are free of spyware and viruses, lets look for registry corruption. If you a have a registry cleaner use it. If you dont, do an online search for one. Dont search for a free registry cleaner, you dont want one of those. Search for a free registry scan. A good registry cleaner will give your registry a free scan so you will know if you have registry corruption, but it wont repair the corruption without you purchasing the product. Since registry corruption causes more computer slowdowns than anything else I know of, this purchase is a necessary one.

Registry Corruption Simply Must Go!

Registry corruption can get in the way of an operating system so much it can make the OS incapable of loading into the hard drive at startup. This means it is just about impossible to keep a computer running at full tilt without having a registry cleaner installed on a computer these days. While this may not have been the case a few years ago, it is today because Windows XP and Vista are so much more easily corrupted.

Now, with no viruses, no spyware and no registry corruption, do you have your computer’s speed back? I’ll bet you do! If not, at least your computer will run better and you will have taken care of some matters that definitely needed to be taken care of!

If you are still experiencing problems, open up your task manager and see exactly what is using your resources. I have seen cases where a virus scanner itself was a huge resource hog. I always advise my customers to close such programs until they are needed. If you dont find a problem in the task manager, unfortunately, there are internal problems with the computer and it needs to be troubleshot in hands on fashion.

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