If you’re going back to school, you may have a unique opportunity to make sure your PC performs like magic. This is especially important for students who are either buying a brand new computer, or taking a laptop to school where the opportunity for technical support is limited and expensive. Speed up your computer, or make sure it stays speedy from the start with SpeedUpMyPC 2011.

Don’t Underestimate The Value of Technical Support

When you’re away at school, you may not have access to technical support for your computer. Therefore, the best way to ensure that your computer remains reliable and trouble-free is to keep it clean. SpeedUpMyPC 2011 has a whole suite of tools you can use to keep your computer clean and efficient, and best of all, you can complete most operations in just a few minutes.

SpeedUpMyPC 2011 has been downloaded more than a million times by users who want to ensure that their computers are available, clean and trouble-free. SpeedUpMyPC 2011 does more than just clean your computer’s registry file. It also optimizes your Internet connection to ensure that you can take advantage of all that your Internet connection has to offer.

SpeedUpMyPC 2011 can shorten the amount of time your computer requires to boot and shut down by streamlining and optimizing the OS. Keep the parts of the system you use and need, and get rid of the waste that bogs your computer down and robs it of real computing performance.

SpeedUpMyPC 2011 will clean and maintain your registry. Many uninstallers aren’t written properly or don’t remove all code associated with a particular program. This leaves useless program code trapped in the registry. Your computer has to read through all of this abandoned material, and can sometimes get stuck waiting for this zombie code to time out. SpeedUpMyPC 2011 gets rid of the junk you don’t need and improves your computer performance from the time you boot up your computer until the time you shut it down.

SpeedUpMyPC 2011 has won more than 100 5-star awards for its ability to optimize your PC. Don’t wait until your brand new computer has been crippled by a lot of useless code, and don’t let your computer performance slow to a crawl when you have limited access to technical support. Keep your PC working fast by installing SpeedUpMyPC 2011. SpeedUpMyPC 2011 might possibly be the best two minutes you’ve ever spent on technical support!

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The bad news is that there are many things that can slow down your computer, but the flip side is that there are many ways to speed up computer performance. If you don’t know much about computers, you might be wondering what steps you can take to speed up your computer performance.

No Silver Bullets

Unless you know exactly what’s slowing down your computer, you aren’t likely to find the one magic thing you can do to resolve your performance issues. Instead, you’re likely to find a handful of things you can do. By themselves, these individual steps may not make much of a performance difference for your computer, but combine them and your computer may start singing again.

Regular maintenance on your computer is as important as regular maintenance on your car. If you keep your computer well maintained you put yourself ahead of the game in two ways. First, you avoid accumulating problems that can slowly rob computer performance. Second, you can more easily detect performance problems when they first occur, giving you a better opportunity to resolve them.

Regular maintenance consists of getting rid of extraneous files; cleaning up your disk and defragmenting it: maintaining your file system; and monitoring your startup application list carefully. By not allowing your system to load unnecessary applications, utilities and toolbars, you can conserve your available memory for the applications you really want or need to run.

You can get a performance boost by increasing the amount of memory you have installed in your computer. By making available a larger amount of RAM, the applications you normally use will have more memory available to them. You’ll get a noticeable performance boost by adding memory.

Finally, you can improve your performance using a good registry cleaner. SpeedUpMyPC 2011 is more than a registry cleaner. It offers a full set of tools to help you optimize the performance of your computer. Using the tools in SpeedUpMyPC 2011, you can track the performance of your computer and eliminate the programs, utilities and configurations that slow your computer down and rob it of its ability to perform.

SpeedUpMyPC 2011 is easy to use and requires no special skills. The interface is straightforward, the scanning is both thorough and fast, and installation is a breeze. In just a few minutes, you can install SpeedUpMyPC 2011, scan your computer and fix issues that prevent your computer from performing at its peak.

Download your copy today and get your computer back up and running at full speed.

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Nothing is more frustrating than a slow computer, partially because the list of culprits is almost endless. Here are a few tips to help you speed up your computer and get better performance.

Simple Maintenance Can Make The Difference

Do the basics first. Chances are good that you have the tools on hand to do the simple maintenance your computer requires and in at least a few of these cases, the tools you need are built into the operating system.

The first step to speeding up your computer is to ensure that you have no spyware, adware, malware, viruses or Trojans running on your computer. A good antivirus removal tool will find the worst problems, but sometimes, adware and other malware fly under the radar. You’ll want to make sure you use up-to-date malware and virus scanners to detect the latest infections. If you don’t have anti-virus software installed on your computer, or you haven’t updated your A/V definitions in awhile, make sure your removal tools are in good shape before you start.

Once you’re sure your computer is free of viruses, malware, adware, spyware and Trojans, look at routine disk maintenance procedures like removing old files and defragmenting your hard drive. This two-step combination can free up space on your hard disk, making it easier for your applications to run. It also helps you make the most of your defragmentation tool.

You can throw out files manually by simply dragging them to the Recycle Bin and then actually emptying the bin. You’d be surprised by how many people never take the step of emptying the bin. Unfortunately, that’s the only step that will get you any additional space on your hard disk! You can also use the Disk Cleanup tool to eliminate temporary files and other file types that tend to hang around. Don’t forget to tell your Internet browser to get rid of temporary files. Clear your cache periodically and limit the size of the cache, too.

After you’ve thrown away these files and performed these clean up measures, defragment your hard disk. You can defrag anytime, but if you defragment before you get rid of your old and unneeded files, you’ll just end up running your defragger again. Instead, throw away (or move/store/archive) your old files first, then follow up with a good defragmenting. Defragging a badly fragmented disk can take several hours, so this is a good task to set up and run overnight.

After you’ve moved, dusted, re-arranged, cleaned and cleaned some more, run a reliable registry cleaner like Registry Booster to keep your registry in tip-top shape.

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A computer has to do a lot of work when it starts up. In addition to performing basic hardware checks, it also needs to load and start the operating system, then load programs and utilities that the user has selected as startup items. This last task is one area in which users can gain the advantage and speed up computer performance a bit.

Not All Applications Should Be Startup Items

Most users don’t understand that standard installation routines for programs may include actions that actually slow their computers down. If one application “volunteers” to configure itself as a startup item, the performance loss may hardly be noticeable. If five applications do the same thing, the computer’s performance may slow. If ten applications are configured to start up automatically, the computer may not have enough memory to function, depending upon what the applications are designed to do.

Aside from the applications you download and install knowingly, some applications may do things you don’t fully appreciate until you see them in action. Some “freeware packages” are good examples. Don’t get me wrong; free is good. I like free as much as the next person, but “free” often comes with a hidden cost. Some freeware programs are well behaved and do exactly what they say they do. Others try to load up your computer with spyware and other malware; toolbars and other applications that run all the time and slow your computer down. Removing or disabling these “riders” will improve your computer performance.

To find out what’s running on your computer at startup, close all of your applications and restart your computer. Without opening any applications, open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del. The Task Manager will provide a list of all running processes and give you the option to end a task by clicking on the task within the list and pressing End Task.

Don’t arbitrarily end a task because you don’t recognize the file name. Instead, write down the questionable file names and do a little research to find out what the file is. If it turns out to be an important system process, leave it alone. If it’s an application, reconfigure the computer to eliminate this extra baggage from the startup routine.

If you do a lot of software removal, spend a few extra minutes and run a registry cleaner like RegCure. Keeping your registry free of unnecessary lines of code will speed up your computer and improve its overall performance.

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If you’ve noticed that your computer is freezing, crashing or just plain slowing down, there are several things you can do to make sure your computer stays in good working order.

Preventing Problems Is Easier Than Fixing Them

First and foremost, you need virus protection for your computer. Most computers – upwards of 90% of new computers today – work on the Windows platform. Keeping a good anti-virus program on your computer is a must. Don’t assume that your computer is protected because your computer was shipped with an anti-virus program.

Anti-virus program need to be updated regularly. Computers used in offices and in workplaces are updated daily. That’s a great lesson for you to take away. Configure your anti-virus program to download updates regularly. Also configure your AV software to run each time you start the computer. Most AV programs are subscription-based, so you’ll pay a periodic fee for updates. They’re worth it. Don’t try to save money by letting your AV program go. You’ll soon end up with a non-working computer.

Along with AV programs, you’ll want to run at least one anti-spyware program. (And no, AV and anti-spyware programs aren’t the same thing, though you may find utilities that do both.) Keep your anti-spyware program(s) up to date, just like your AV software. Make sure these run when you turn the computer on, and look for an anti-spyware package that can detect spyware on-the-fly.

Periodically – as in at least once each quarter – run Scandisk. It comes as part of the operating system and will seek out problems with your hard disk and file structure. There’s no need to run this daily or even weekly, but you should run this utility at least four times each year, and more if you do a lot of downloading or file creation and deletion. Scandisk is in your Accessories/System Tools folder. You’ll need to exit every program before running it.

Defragment your hard disk at least once per quarter. You could combine this maintenance with Scandisk. If you decide to do that, run Scandisk first and then defragment your disk afterward. “Defragging” takes a long time. (This is a good overnight task, or one that can run while you’re out of the house for the day.) Disk Defragmenter is also included with your operating system, and is found in the Accessories/System Tools folder.

If you don’t turn off your computer very often, at least reboot it once in awhile. Rebooting will clear out any temporary gremlins that have taken up residence in your computer and will kill temporary, “zombie” and “orphan” files and processes that may be slowing your computer down. Think of it as the functional equivalent of letting your computer take a shower!