How to Improve A Computer's Speed Free

This guide will show you a few easy steps you can take to improving the speed of your computer for free.

Instructions

1. One of the first things you should do is to check and make sure that your hard drive is not full. I suggest having at least 10-15 percent of the disk free at all times. If your drive is full, consider defragging your drive, or just simply look through and find movies, pictures, and music that you no longer listen to or watch. These types of files take up an enormous amount of space.

2. Another thing you should regularly do is to delete your web browsing history. This will remove any cookies or saved web pages that have been downloaded to your computer and have slowed it down. To do this, click on the tools button in your browser and click on internet options. Under browsing history, click delete and make sure that you delete all offline content as well. Saved pages and cookies really slow down your computer.

3. Make sure that you have both spyware and virus checking programs downloaded and installed on your computer. Make sure that you scan your computer for spyware at least once a week. Always update your definitions before each scan as well. This way, you can be sure that you are always searching for the most up to date spyware and viruses.