For all computer users, they may find a fact: they are very satisfied with their computer running speed when they take the new computer or laptop home. While, they will be disappointed at that their computers become slower and slower day after day. What is the PC slow fix? Ask for help on the Internet or from your IT friends, they may tell you that you need to kill viruses or free up your hard drive space by defragmentation. After done above, you may find your problem has not been fixed.

After several trials, we get 5 practical ways to make the computer back to speed.

1. Check for viruses

To check for viruses is the most common way computer users may choose to speed up their computers. But here we take it as a bad idea. For the antivirus software itself is almost guaranteed to be one of the most important reasons to make your computer slower than ever before.

2. Open Windows Update

To open your Windows Update and keep your Microsoft programs latest is another way to improve your slow PC. But it is very annoying to allow your Windows Update automatically which will insist on installing the updates in the middle of a deadline or an important cha session, no matter what you are doing then. I prefer to make the Windows wait until I choose to update by manual.

3. Remove Web page history

IE usually stores a historical archive of websites you have visited. If it is too big, it will surly slow your browser down. To clear your web history weekly will be sure to fix your slow PC problem.

4. Turn off add-ons

Too many items installed as add-ons in Brower are another key factor to slow your IE browsing. You need to choose to disable these add-ons to make your computer run faster. Follow steps below to turn off the add-ons: select Tools option in IE banner, and turn to Manage Add-ons.

5. Free up hard disk space

The running time of a hard disk will also slow down your computer. Thus, another good and simple method to fix PC slow problem is to free hard drive space by deleting junk files, removing useless and unneeded folders or items, uninstalling unwanted installed programs, clearing Internet cache files and emptying the Recycling Bin, etc. by some disk cleanup software such as Acebyte Utilities.