Speed Up Your Slow PC

You must be felling that your computer is SLOOOOOOOW. Don't worry that's how almost every techy in the world feels like. But if you really want to speed up your machine with some small tweaks, it'll help you a lot in some situations.

Let's get stared:

1. Clean Up Your Disks

Doesn't matter whether it's your phone, PC, Laptop, or MP3 player , this step applies to all your electronics. Cleaning up your disks is very necessary, even though you fell that all the data on your computer is important, you'll have to let some of it go. To do this you can uninstall unwanted software that slow down your Windows StartUp, or defragment your disk using great utilites like Smart Defrag to get a little help. Read this article to know more how you can keep your data and still have lot of space on your system. One of the ways to do it is by creating a free DropBox, SkyDrive or Google Drive account to save your data online. Use this link to give me and yourself additional 500 MB space on your 2GB free account.

2. Install A Lighter OS

Install a lighter OS on your computer to get faster boot up speeds and lesser frustration. You can use some of the lightest linux distros to install onto your computer. You can even just make a live USB for your light distro if you dont want to go through the tough work of installing a whole new OS and it may still give comparatively faster application start ups and system boot ups. You can even install something like Chrome OS called Chromium OS if it is supported onto your system. Chromium OS is basically OS with just Chrome in it. You can use it if you just browse internet most of the time and as now a days you can do almost any thing online that you can do on your PC, Chromium Os can be used as an alternative.

3. Increase Internet Speeds

Just like every one else even you must be felling that your internet speeds can be improved and the answer is both yes and no. You can get a little more speed by the tricks I showed you earlier and you can even change your DNS settings using  to get an extra kick on you speed but at the end of the day your applications and your ISP (Internet Service Provider) decides how mush speed you get. You can try some tricks to crank up your DropBox upload and download speeds which really give you amazing syncing speed, but even this works only because DropBox was limiting your speed so don't search for trick to boost up Chrome or something like that, it WONT WORK!

4. Overclock Your System

This is something that I wont recommend to you if you are a newbie because overclocking your Processor, RAM, or GPU will void its warranty. The other problem with overclocking is that if you don't know the limits you can endup overheating your processor , blah, blah to such an extend that it will never work again. So be careful with that. Overclockers.com has some great tutorials but the best thing to do is gather information about your computer like Motherboard name, Processor name/generation, etc and then find if anyone with same spces have put on a tutorial by googling it.

5. Use Windows ReadyBoost

ReadyBoost is a great functionality already in your added in Windows OS' watch the video and read the explanation on Windows Site. There are some other Softwares like eBoost which can help you do the same but I don't see a need to install an extra software for ReadyBoost. But watch this video of eBoost it explains how  eBoost (ReadyBoost) works.

6. Get Yourself A SSD

Using an SSD will give you the best performance boost than any other tweaks mentioned above, but again all the above ones were for free. SSD replace come in various sizes and the size of SSD you'll need depends on your usage. If you are a PRO designer or something and you use very huge and memory consuming applications like PhotoShop and 3D's Max you'll need a SSD with slightly more space, but again it depends on how much you are able to giveup. If you don't want to spend too much on SSD and ready to wait a little more for an application to open up, you can save a whole lot of money. Have a look at this guide on How To Buy SSD on PCMag.com to understand your needs better.