Most people believe you need to reinstall Windows  operating system regularly to keep it running at top performance, but to what extend is this belief true?

To many users Windows slows down over time and many don't know how to prevent the problem. Your PC wont slow down if you just take care of your it a little more. A few simple procedures  you won't have to spend hours backing up data, installing from disc, and re-installing your essential applications.

So what's the problem?

The inevitable is going to happen some day and your Windows PC will slow down over time, but there can be many things that can be done to delay the process as much as possible. What really is affecting your PC is the fact that there are too many things that are clogging up the memory and waste CPU cycles. Having unnecessary low level programs/applications or running more than one antivirus at a time really slows down Windows.The last thing that would really slow down your PC is running out of space in the hard drive.

The main problem is not the PC its the PC user that is filling up the computer with many junk files. In other words, its the person who uses the PC who has not taken care of the Windows PC as best as possible.

What to do?

The first thing is to stop installing junk programs/applications to your PC. This is like you eating candy all day and feeling sick after it. This is the same effect junk applications have on a PC it makes it get sick and if it is sick it wont be able to perform as efficiently as before.  Junk applications come with DLL files that only clog up space on the hard drive. They add always-resident Windows services when they don't need to, bloat up your registry, and add useless icons to your system tray that waste even more memory and CPU cycles. A few junk application may be ok, but the more you add up on a PC the greater the effect and the more a PC will slow down.

 

What to look out for.

• install official system drivers- from the manufacturer website. Drivers have a huge impact on performance, and you want to have stable, updated drivers.
• Apps that function as an Explorer plug-in- they directly hook into the shell and any problem will make your entire PC slow or crash repeatedly.
• Registry cleaners- wont really speed up your PC in most cases. They, however, set themselves to run at startup in the system tray, wasting your memory and CPU cycles.
• Antivirus applications- you should never use more than one real-time antivirus application at a time. Most recommend Microsoft Security Essentials as a free, fast, antivirus tool.
• Look out for anything that says it will "Speed Up Your PC" or "Optimize Your RAM"  this will most likely slow your PC

Last step.

Try and keep your computer clean feeding it only healthy, useful applications. Clean up your computers temporary files, your download folder, and defrag your computer every now and then. Simple things like this can go a long way into the health of your PC.