Increase PC Performance

Many computer users are worried about their computer's performance. After spending lot of bucks, still they cannot have that charm of using PC as they had expected. Here I am going to explain some major tricks which are used by many computer users which help them to take efficient use of their CPU.

Why Your Computer Performance has Dropped: When Windows XP computers were first shipped, many retailers only installed the minimum amount of memory required to run a Windows XP computer – 128 MB. Consumers took their new computers home only to find that after they loaded all of their games and applications their computer’s performance dropped drastically and was even slower than their old computer.

Shortly thereafter, the default amount of in new computers was increased to a more robust 256 MB. This was plenty of memory for computer performance with Windows XP and a few applications running. However consumers have become increasing concerned about their security and have installed ever more demanding anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall programs. With all of this running at once computer performance has taken a hit again and many people now rely on Windows virtual memory to run their computer.

METHOD 1:

1 Go to start > My Computer
2. Right Click and in the drop down menu choose Properties
3. Click Advanced Tab and in the Performance click Settings
4. New Window will pop up. In the Visual Effects tab choose Adjust for best performance and click Apply

METHOD 2:
1 Go to start > My Computer
2. Right Click and in the drop down menu choose Properties
3. Click Advanced Tab and in the Performance click Settings
4. New Window will pop up. In the Advanced tab you can see virtual memory
5. Click Change and change the setting for the custom size.
6. Set the page file 1.5 times the size of RAM. Example if you have 756MB RAM the size of the page file would be 1152MB

METHOD 3:

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