As you continue to use your laptop for your day to day activities , it start to get slow due to lots of files and unused softwares stored in your HDD.
However, that doesn't mean you need to replace your laptop with a new one, you can easily fix it and make it run faster with the tips I'll list down.
1. CHECK HARD DRIVE FREE SPACE.
Your files are being stored in your hard drive, when it begins to get filled up it tend to slow down your laptop.
To check the remaining space in your hard drive , click on my computer and right click on the local drive, scroll down to properties and select it.
If the remaining space is below 15% then you need to free up space by removing unwanted files to make it run faster.
2. DO A DISK CLEAN UP
When working on your laptop, many temporary files are saved in your HDD, doing a disk clean up helps you to remove temporary files such as downloaded Program Files, temporary Internet Files, Recycle Bin, Setup Log Files etc.
To do a disk clean up click on start>All Programs > Accessories/Administrative tools > Disk Cleanup.
Select the box of the folders you want to delete and click clean up system files.
3.DE-FRAGMENT THE HARD DRIVE
Files are fragmented into different locations in your HDD making your computer to slow down, that's why defragmenting your laptop assemble your files together, makes it easier to fine and load faster.
To run the program on your laptop , click on my computer and right click on the local drive, select properties, go to tools and select defragment now.
It's advice you do this every 3-4 weeks.
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4. STOP UNNECESSARY START UP PROGRAMMES
Laptop takes time to boot when there are lots of programs running in background, the annoying part is that you don't need these programs but they do find their way to start up when you switch on your computer thereby slowing it down.
To stop these programs from starting up, click on the window button R, a box will appear then type in "msconfig" without the quotes and click enter.
Click on start up and unchecked the box of all the programs you want to stop from starting up except your anti virus and click apply. It will ask you to restart, click on it and wait for your laptop to restart.
5. INCREASE YOUR COMPUTER MEMORY
Computer programs uses the memory to start up, some uses a large portion of your memory e.g games, photoshop, Ms word etc, and when there is no enough memory it start using your HDD, thereby slowing down your computer.
To avoid this from happening, you need to increase the RAM of your laptop to speed up it performance.
6. DOWNLOAD ANTIVIRUS
Unwanted programs like malware, Spyware and virus running in the background slows down the computer making it to perform below expectation.
Installing an anti virus and keeping it up today will help eliminate these treat and make your computer run faster.
CONCLUSION
By doing the above listed tips, your laptop will run faster, you don't need an engineer to help you do this or getting a new laptop, it's easy.
