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		<title>Can You Refurbish A Slow Computer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One question I get a lot is from people who are trying to decide whether to keep a computer or upgrade. Many people decide to upgrade because they have a slow computer. In many cases, replacement isn&#8217;t necessary. There are things you can do to improve your slow computer that don&#8217;t involve an all-out replacement. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_799" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 193px"><a href="http://speedupcomputer.com/"><img src="http://speedupcomputer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/speed-up-computer-old.jpg" alt="Can You Refurbish A Slow Computer?" title="speed-up-computer-old" width="183" height="275" class="size-full wp-image-799" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Can You Refurbish A Slow Computer?</p></div>One question I get a lot is from people who are trying to decide whether to keep a computer or upgrade. Many people decide to upgrade because they have a <a href="http://speedupcomputer.com">slow computer</a>. In many cases, replacement isn&#8217;t necessary. There are things you can do to improve your slow computer that don&#8217;t involve an all-out replacement.</p>
<h3>Sometimes You Need To Get Beyond Maintenance</h3>
<p>Even computers that are relatively well-maintained can slow down.  If you&#8217;ve gone beyond the normal maintenance – removing disk errors, removing old files, cleaning off your desktop – there are still things you can do to breathe life into your old computer. </p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve got some money to spend, you can get a lot of return on an investment in some additional memory. More than anything else, additional memory will help speed up your computer.  You may also get a performance boost from swapping out your CPU. This is a little more complicated because your new CPU has to be compatible with the motherboard you have. If you don&#8217;t know a lot about computers, ask someone who does for advice on this before you spend a lot of cash on a CPU upgrade. </p>
<p>If you&#8217;re happy with the hardware you have or you don&#8217;t have the cash for a significant CPU upgrade, you can make a smaller investment and still get a big return.  SpeedUpMyPC 2011 is a very highly regarded program that&#8217;s designed to keep your computer registry optimized. </p>
<p>SpeedUpMyPC 2011 is easy to download and install, and easy to use.  It will help keep your computer registry free of abandoned code that slows your computer down and robs it of performance.  You&#8217;ll be surprised by how well your computer performs after installing and running SpeedUpMyPC 2011. </p>
<p>SpeedUpMyPC 2011 can make a difference in your computer&#8217;s performance in just two minutes, and more than one million computer users have downloaded the product. It&#8217;s safe, simple and reliable, and can put some extra pep in your old computer&#8217;s step. </p>
<p>Computers do tend to accumulate a lot of leftover code, generally from applications that haven&#8217;t uninstalled properly, and applications that have been updated, and have left a lot of unnecessary information behind in the registry.  You can put up with slow computer performance as long as you like, and eventually, your computer will grind to a halt.  You can also use a recognized registry cleaner like SpeedUpMyPC 2011 and make the most of your computer, no matter how long you&#8217;ve had it in service.</p>
<p><i>Photo Credit: <a target=new href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/soupmeister/5236373626/" rel="nofollow">Soupmeister</a>, via Flickr</i></p>
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		<title>Consider Using A Registry Cleaner on a Slow Computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, for the last several weeks, I&#8217;ve given tips that should help you add some speed to a slow computer. You can never go wrong with routine maintenance, and being very good about doing the little things can help ensure consistent performance from your computers for years. Even when you perform routine maintenance scrupulously, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_755" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 285px"><a href="http://speedupcomputer.com/"><img src="http://speedupcomputer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/registry-cleaner-speed-up-computer.jpg" alt="Consider Using A Registry Cleaner on a Slow Computer" title="registry-cleaner-speed-up-computer" width="275" height="275" class="size-full wp-image-755" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Consider Using A Registry Cleaner on a Slow Computer</p></div>Ok, for the last several weeks, I&#8217;ve given tips that should help you add some speed to a <a href="http://speedupcomputer.com">slow computer</a>. You can never go wrong with routine maintenance, and being very good about doing the little things can help ensure consistent performance from your computers for years.  Even when you perform routine maintenance scrupulously, and take excellent care of your operating system, you can still run into slowdowns.</p>
<h3>Registry Cleaner Can Help</h3>
<p>When you perform routine maintenance, defragment your disk, keep your file system in order, fix file system errors, update your system and your hardware drivers, and you still have problems with a slow computer, it&#8217;s time to consider a registry cleaner.</p>
<p>Registry cleaners help keep your computer&#8217;s registry database free from unnecessary and unhelpful program code.  Every time you install a program on your computer, or make a change in the configuration you make changes to the registry file.  The registry accumulates these changes over a long period of time. A well-used registry can easily grow to more than a million lines of information. </p>
<p>The registry means a lot to the operating system. The OS checks the configuration information in the registry religiously to ensure that your applications operate the way you expect them to, maintain the settings that you&#8217;ve selected and open and close properly, among other things. </p>
<p>Registry files in a computer are just like other files in that they can get damaged.  Because the registry also accumulates information, it grows in size, too.  Applications are supposed to maintain the registry. They&#8217;re also supposed to remove entries they made that are no longer needed.  Uninstallers are also supposed to help with the cleanup. In theory, this will keep the registry from growing too large or becoming filled with unimportant or unnecessary information.</p>
<p>That doesn’t always happen, though. What does happen is that the registry grows in size and accumulates information. Over time, the registry gets very large. The computer has to analyze all of that information, even if it is no longer needed.  Uninstallers don&#8217;t always remove all of their program&#8217;s additions to the registry.  Applications and their updates don&#8217;t always mop up the old or unneeded entries. As a result, the registry becomes large and hard to work with. It slows the computer down.</p>
<p>A registry cleaner is a program that removes all of the unnecessary information from the registry and allows the computer to operate more efficiently. I recommend RegCure as a registry cleaner. It&#8217;s easy to install, easy to use and it makes registry maintenance a snap. RegCure creates backups of the registry file so you can revert to an older registry version if you don&#8217;t like the changes RegCure has made.<br />
You can try out RegCure and see for yourself what a difference it can make in your slow computer.</p>
<p><i>Photo Credit: <a target=new href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/booleansplit/2979169728/" rel="nofollow">Robert S. Donovan</a>, via Flickr</i></p>
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		<title>RegCure Makes Registry Cleaning Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t made a secret of the fact that I like RegCure. The program is one utility that no computer user should be without. Even if you know very little about how a computer operates, or you know nothing about registry cleaning, you can certainly tell when the computer isn&#8217;t behaving like it might have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_167" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 285px"><a href="http://speedupcomputer.com/"><img src="http://speedupcomputer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/speed0409.jpg" alt="RegCure Makes Registry Cleaning Easy" title="speed0409" width="275" height="184" class="size-medium wp-image-167" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">RegCure Makes Registry Cleaning Easy</p></div>I haven&#8217;t made a secret of the fact that I like RegCure. The program is one utility that no computer user should be without. Even if you know very little about how a computer operates, or you know nothing about <a href="http://www.speedupcomputer.com/faster-computer/not-every-registry-cleaner-is-alike/">registry cleaning</a>, you can certainly tell when the computer isn&#8217;t behaving like it might have at one time. </p>
<p>Over time, the computer accumulates errors in the registry that can be caused by a number of things, including incomplete or incorrect uninstallation routines for software or hardware you may have used on your computer at one time. Other sources of problems include DLLs that get moved or overwritten; path information that points to directories that no longer exist; broken shortcut information; duplicate files and empty registry keys.</p>
<p>These errors will slow down your computer or cause problems like crashing and freezing. You may also start to experience Windows error reports that point to non-existent directories or refer to old hardware or software you may have used at one time.  </p>
<h3>What Does RegCure Do?</h3>
<p>You don&#8217;t need to put up with this kind of mysterious behavior. RegCure will locate and eliminate all of these problems and more.  In addition, RegCure provides an excellent backup tool that preserves your registry. Using this backup, you can restore your computer to a prior state if you don&#8217;t like the results that RegCure provides. Many registry cleaners don&#8217;t make a full backup of the registry before they start making changes, and that can cause major problems if the registry cleaner misinterprets an entry in the registry. RegCure will also defragment and compress your registry. An uncompressed registry can take up hundreds of megabytes of disk space. </p>
<h3>RegCure Is A Better Registry Cleaner</h3>
<p>In addition, RegCure has a built in scheduler to allow you to run RegCure on your preferred schedule automatically. You&#8217;ll never need to remember to run a scan, because RegCure will do all the heavy lifting for you. </p>
<p>RegCure will scan for and clean up invalid shortcuts, help files and paths. It will remove abandoned program information, including invalid paths and fonts. It will locate and remove invalid and empty registry keys and more. </p>
<p>RegCure also shows you a visual progress indicator while it&#8217;s scanning and keeps track of all of the errors it finds. The user interface is easy to master, and within minutes, your computer will be running much faster and without the errors, crashing and freezing you may have experienced. RegCure will clean your registry safely and restore the performance you though you&#8217;d lost. Try a free scan today and see what&#8217;s holding up your computer. </p>
<p><i>Photo Credit: Suzy Holm</i></p>
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