By Anne Torres

The performance of your computer can make or unmake your day. Get a new computer and experience an unperturbed use, but as soon as your computer gets a few years under its belt, it is bound to reduce speed. This marked deceleration comes with age and with the accumulation of unwanted programs. When it happens, you have to make sure that all the right steps are taken.

It's easy to find the right fix. Sluggish computer or a badly performing computer can be readily addressed by taking in the suggestions of most techie people and technical support representatives out there.

Listed here are some of the tips that can offer you the fix slow computer should undergo a defragging. You can use the defragmentation tool that is on your computer. Why bring into play defragging as a way to fix slow computer? Just remember that the hard drive of the computer has hundreds of sectors and these are then broken into clusters and more allocations.

And when the computer used the files and accessed, these files are frequently not returned to their respective sectors and allocations. With that, the hard drive gets 'fragmented'. You can make use of this tool by clicking on the Start bar and by selecting Programs. Check Accessories, System Tools and finally select the Defragmentation Tool. Using this tool may not bring about change in seconds since it takes quite a few hours to properly defrag the computer's hard drive. But the time you spent waiting will be all worth it since the resulting increase will be a speedier computer.

To fix slow computers you need also to use the registry programs in order to fix programs. Registry is the term that is used to refer to the database that contains all the settings and the options for the 32 bit versions of many Microsoft Windows operating systems. Whatever changes you made on the file associations, system policies or the Control Panel systems, these will then be reflected on the computer's registry.

When a registry error occur then the files or the data will no longer be accessible. If two or more registry errors happen, then a registry fix is suggested. This kind of fix will get the data back and can be made accessible. And this can also allow the computer to respond in a faster manner as well.

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