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How to Repair Windows OS on Old PC and Making it Faster

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Do you wait longer and longer in front of your computer because it is getting slower and slower?.

If your Windows Registry contains a lot of outdated entries, you’ll end up with a very slow XP

Windows Registry is an important file on your windows operating system and it contains a lot of information about your PC. E.g. where are software installed, which DLL files are shared among the installed sofware, short cuts in you Windows start menu and on your desktop.

Everything you do while using Windows ends up in the Windows Registry. That could be the location of the latest files used (documents, spread sheets, images, videos etc.). You will also find data about the applications installed and uninstalled.

Many things can cause a PC to become slow, and they can hit any PC.

It just means that your computer needs professional help!

A professional solution normally follows these steps:

  • Scanning your PC and detecting the errors that causes your PC to be slow.
  • Fixing the errors
  • Finally you PC has become faster, it may even boot faster and it no longer contains registry errors.

Additional factors that can cause your Windows PC to be slower

A cluttered Windows Registry is not the only thing that can make your PC slow

Sometimes anti-virus programs causes your PC to be slow due to bad configuration

If your anti virus is set up to check for viruses i

Additionally anti virus programs are often set to analyza local harddrives as well as network drives.

A local hard drive is much faster than a network drive, thus scanning a network drive eats up a lot of CPU.

Normally you will not compromise you security if you disable network scans within your antivirus application.

- Louise P. Junez