How To Fix Slow Computers

How To Fix Slow Computers

My boyfriend is a really computer nerd, when it comes to computers. Whenever I have a problem, I have to go to him and he will fix it within a few minutes. I always wondered where his knowledge comes from.

One day I was cleaning the bedroom when I noticed a few books there, a few of them about computers. The first book I’m going to review is “How To Fix Slow Computers” as it seems to be the most useful (for me) as my computer has become pretty slow in the past 2 years and can take 8-10 minutes until it’s started and I can start working with it.

First i thought it would be very hard to understand the things in this book as I am a computer dummy and don’t really understand the technical jargon terms. I was surprised when I started to read this book that there were only very few technical jargon terms used in it and if there was some of this technical terms, it was explained very well so even a computer dummy like I am could understand it.

Whenever my boyfriend is out of house for working, I’ll sneak up in the bedroom and read a little bit in the books and apply the new learned knowledge on my computer and see how it slowly regain it’s speed as it had a few years ago when we first bought the computer.

Some of the things I learned from this book is how to …

• … rearrangement your hard drive (the think in your computer which saves all the data and files) which makes starting your programs and computer significantly faster
• … split up your hard drive into several sections to prevent rearrangement of your data cause by creating and deleting files which results in a much slower slowdown in the long run
• … clean up dead settings cause by programs you once had on your computer but deleted and the programs didn’t correctly cleaned up upon deletion
• … speed up your internet connection by changing hidden system values

Some of the tips give significant speed increases, other gives less. But it sums up. But don’t expect to much wonders. You can’t make the computer faster than it really is. The tips only helps to restore the speed lost over time by installing many programs and deleting them or normal usage.

So if you’re same computer dummy like I am, you maybe want to check out this book and optimize your computer yourself instead of spending 100’s of dollars for so-called “computer specialists” (that’s if you don’t have a boyfriend who is a computer crack/nerd).

In the next few days I’ll review his other books and post it here.