Windows 7 Slow?

By Ralph Walker

Are you having troubles with Windows 7 slow performance? Did you find that you first installed it was running much faster, but now after a while it has become slow? In this article I'm going to be talking about why Windows 7 sometimes slows down, and what you can do to make it faster.

Windows 7 was designed as an improvement over Windows Vista, and one of the most important goals was that it should work quicker and be less demanding on your system resources. But there are some problems which have affected every Windows operating systems since the beginning, and these problems are still affecting Windows 7.

If your computer has suddenly become slow, it's possible that Windows 7 is not to blame. You could possibly have been infected with malware. This is dangerous, damaging software that is designed to cause harm to. There are several different kinds of malware which are widespread, including viruses, Trojan horses, and spyware. They tend to slow your computer down, but they can do much more damage besides, so you need to get rid of them. To do this, there is antivirus software which you should use to scan the computer and get rid of any malicious software you find. Doing this can help to eliminate Windows 7 slow performance, and also to keep your data secure and safe.

If you notice your computer has become slow gradually over a period of time, the most likely culprit is clutter on your hard drive. When a hard drive is new and relatively empty, it will run much faster. Over time, most users download files such as videos and music, game content, webpages, and also create their own files and documents. All of this adds up to fill the hard drive, making Windows 7 slow down. Some of these files represent information or media that you want to keep; in this case, it's not clutter. But you will find on just about any computer they can be huge amount of clutter. Delete the clutter now, and then defrag your hard disk. Just doing this can create a huge boost in speed.

In this article I've only had space to cover a couple of factors which can make Windows 7 slow. There are quite a few different things that can cause this problem, and usually more than one of them will be affecting your computer, so you should check out by Windows 7 optimisation site. This tells you several different things that you can do to get your computer working fast again.

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