It is irritating when your PC becomes slow.  Fortunately there are ways and means to speed up your PC.

There may be too many programs on your PC. Increasing the RAM will speed up your computer. There may be errors or bad and missing entries in the registry. Use a registry cleaner to speed up your computer. You will find many registry cleaners on the internet. Download a good one and use it.

Many people have installed programs that they don't need. Remove these programs from the computer and experience increase in speed. You can speed up your PC by increasing the free hard drive space. 90% of the time the reason for a slow computer is a corrupted registry. Each time you load or unload certain software,  add or remove hardware or alter your computer's settings the registry  becomes fragmented with harmful, invalid and corrupted files. You should download a quality registry cleaner. Then scan your computer with it. All the invalid entries will be found and deleted.

Viruses are a major cause of slow computers. Purchase or download a good antivirus software. This will remove the viruses from your computer and increase the speed. Spyware can also slow down your computer. They collect your personal information.  Use a good antispyware program to remove spyware. Some programs run in the background whether you have selected them or not. Close the programs to speed up your computer. You can remove unneeded programs and empty your recycle bin to free up RAM. This will definitely increase the speed of your computer. A useful method to speed up your computer is to defragment it. With time several files in your computer become fragmented.  It takes time for a computer to read a fragmented file. Thus the slowing down of your PC. Browsing the Internet causes some data to be retained by the computer. Deleting this particular data will speed up your computer. Defragmenting a computer can take a few minutes or a few hours. But it is definitely a recommended method to speed up your PC.

You don't have to seek professional help every time your computer slows down.  In fact frequently the solutions are so easy that it can be executed by a beginner. It is a myth that it is a complex or complicated process. PC can be slow if there are too many files starting up whenever you reboot. Delete the files that you don't need to load during startup.

Occasions when your PC is slow is while you are playing computer games. The reason is the amount of settings and files which need to be processes every time a game is played. Also the PC's have a huge number of corrupt or damaged settings which prevent the game from being able to load quickly. Use a quality registry cleaner to set any of the damaged or corrupted settings that are inside your computer.

Among other reasons for slow speed of PC is hardware malfunction or old drivers.

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