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How To Speed Up A Slow PC Running Windows 7, 8, 10, Or 11

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For a good Personal Computer (PC) experience, your system needs to work at higher clock speed, this enables you to interact with more applications, more quickly.

No doubt, a slow computer is often caused by too many programs running simultaneously.

This affects processing power and reduces the PC’s performance and user’s experience.

Some programs will continue running in the background even after you have closed them while others start automatically when you boot up your computer.

If the system CPU is slow, your computer will not be able to keep up with modern applications or games and of course, the experience on its functions and operations won’t be a welcome one as slow PC always frustrates your efforts.

Often times, you want to carry out some tasks on the PC while trying to catch up with other stuff offline but slow PC won’t allow you until you compromise or have to miss out on some activities.

Kindly note that the speed at which your laptop runs programs or completes tasks is determined in great measure by your computer processor speed.

A PC’s Processor speed is measured in gigahertz (GHz), and it’s hardware storage components consistent of RAM and Hard Disk.

The higher this measurement of the GHz, the faster the processor. You can add up to your RAM and the storage too.

Below are a list of things to do to spice up your PC’s speed for better experience;

  • Reduce Animations
  • Change your power settings
  • Disable programs that run on startup
  • Lighten Your Web Browser
  • Shut off Windows tips and tricks
  • Free Up Disk Space
  • Increase your PC RAM
  • Uninstall Programs You Don’t Use
  • Stop OneDrive from syncing (Windows 10)
  • Disable shadows and visual effects
  • Turn on automated Windows maintenance
  • Shut down and restart Windows
  • Delete unnecessary files, Delete unnecessary files
  • Restart regularly
  • Reinstall the operating system


Usman Haruna is a Freelance Journalist and a passionate Techpreneur.... He holds a B.Sc degree in Mass Communication.... He speaks Nupe, English, Hausa, Yoruba..... Human Interests, Tech & General Reports.... He tweets @usman__haruna

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