3 SIMPLE WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR COMPUTER’S PERFORMANCE

Perhaps the most exciting part of buying a new PC is the first time you turn it on and experience its amazing speed. After thinking that you will be super-fast from then on because of brand-spankin’ new computer, you notice that after a few months of usage – maybe even a few years – the productivity and computer have both slowed to a crawl.

This is then your signal that it’s time to take action and restore some speed, some productivity. Here are three quick, easy, and cheap ways to improve your computer’s performance.

Add memory

One of the quickest ways to increase your computer’s performance is by adding more memory, also known as RAM. Believe it or not, adding memory is extremely cheap, and requires little tech-savvy on your part. In fact, most memory can be swapped out in under 10 minutes at home.There’s a lot of jargon and confusing terminology when it comes to purchasing memory, but don’t let it intimidate you.

Erase files

Our computers are like a digital junk drawer, full of clutter and unessential items we think we need to keep. If you’re the type who never uses some external storage, like flash drives or cloud, then your computer is most likely full of those pictures of you as a child, or all the soft copies of all the articles you wrote. Imagine how much all of these bog down your computer’s memory! It’s like trying to run a marathon right after emerging the winner in an eat-all-you-can contest – you’ll never go far without feeling sick. Determine which files you can transfer onto external memory drives and have mercy on your computer.

Disable Search Indexing

In order to speed up the search process, the Search indexing service scans through the files and folders on the Windows system and records information about them in an index file. But it also consumes some resources from the system, so if you are performing searches once in a blue moon then it would be better to keep this feature disabled.