There are several things listed here below that you can do yourself even if you don't consider yourself to be all of that literate of a computer user. For the most part they are free things that you can do yet if you took your computer to a shop they would most likely charge you $100 or more to perform these routine things. You really can do these things yourself and much much more to make your computer run faster.

Since you have been using your computer for quite some time now there is almost an absolute guarantee that simply running the defragmentation program in your computer will make a tremendous increase in the speed of your computer. The defrag program is found in your accessories group within your control panel. It is software installed there by Microsoft before you even bought your computer therefore it is completely safe to run.

You should also take steps to minimize the effect of bad sectors on your computer. Running this program from your computer control panel again will only take you a few minutes and it is also already residing on your computer. All you have to do is tell it to inspect your hard drive and when it finishes once again you will see an incremental increase in the speed of your computer.

Also consider investing in some software to protect your computer from invasion of spyware. Spyware is software that unethical marketers manage to sneak on to your computer that spies on you and reports back to the merchant. Along with exposing your personal information the very process of reporting back to the merchant slows down your computer. You can take advantage of one of the many free anti-spyware programs available on the Internet or increase your protection a notch or two by investing $30 or $40 in a corporate level program that is surer to protect you against invasion.

The next thing you want to do is strip the excess fat from your computer. Over the time that you have owned your computer you have probably installed some programs that you no longer use. Tell your computer to uninstall them and this will free up additional room on your hard drive so that it can work more efficiently and effectively. If there are no programs that you bought that you want to remove then look for programs that the manufacturer of your computer installed. Most likely you have never used them and never will. They are only there to make money for large corporations. If it looks like a program that you will never use then again just tell your computer to uninstall the program.

Now you need to consider spending some money. Not a whole lot of money. Think in the range of $50-$100 to increase the memory in your computer. It is lots cheaper than buying a new computer, right? In all likelihood your computer could use more memory than what is currently installed. You will find that whatever you spend in order to add additional memory to your computer will speed it up tremendously. And if you do just a little bit of research on your favorite search engines you will discover how truly simple it will be for you to install your own additional stick of memory.

These have been just a few of the things that you can do to make your computer run faster. These are easy things for you to do. You do not have to be a computer savvy person in order to accomplish them. And once your computer starts running faster you will be looking for additional things to do to make it run even faster still. Naturally there are lots of additional tweaks the average person can do for their computer and we can help you with that information below.