Waiting for the PC to respond can be the most frustrating thing there is. These are a few tips I found useful which could make your PC behave like it used to in those good old days.

1: Defragment
Make sure you either manually defragment or set the machine up to automatically defragment. When machines get too fragmented, they suffer serious performance degradation. Usually, the built-in Windows defrag tool works fine. If you are looking for something a little better, try Defraggler. It can work on a whole disk or just a part of one.

2: Clean up the disk
If that disk of yous contains both your OS and your data files, your machine is going to come to a screeching halt. One of the first things I check on a machine that's running slowly is how much of the hard disk has been used. If there isn't roughly 10% of the hard disk free, it's time to clean house. One of the tools I like is CCleaner. It quickly clears out all temp files for you. If that doesn't clear up enough space, it's time to start removing unused applications.

3: Clean up the registry
I've seen plenty of machines get bogged down simply because of errors in the registry. Of course, the registry isn't something just any old user (or administrator) should attack. Instead, you want to use an application whose purpose is to clean up the registry. One of my favorite tools for that task is, again, CCleaner. When you run CCleaner, make sure you back up your registry (it will prompt you to do this).

4: Remove spyware/malware
This one always shocks me. If you are using a Windows operating system you BETTER have anti-malware on board or your machine is sure to get bogged down in the muck and mire of spyware. I tend to lean toward Malwarebytes for this. But don't just use the free version. It's good, but it doesn't include any sort of scheduler.

5: Check the disk for errors
With a machine that's aging or whose hard drive has seen excessive use, sectors on that drive can wind up bad. To remedy this, you'll need to issue a command and reboot your machine. The command I generally use is chkdsk X: /f /r (Where X is the drive letter you want to check). The f switch tells the command to automatically fix errors and the r switch locates bad sectors and recovers readable data.

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