If you’re wondering how you can make your computer run a little faster, removing old and unused programs might be the best place to start. It’s simple to do, low risk, free, and doesn’t involve much time.
When you have programs on your computer that you don’t use anymore, they are taking up your hard drive space and they could also be running in the background.
This consumes memory and resources. Removing the programs frees up resources and memory, making the PC run faster.
Before you start removing programs from your computer, make sure that you really don’t need them. Double checking everything before you start will prevent you having to reload something you thought you didn’t need.
You don’t want to remove a critical system program, or some other application, and find yourself in a bind.
Uninstalling programs is easy – but you want to make sure and use the system option in Windows to clear them out.
Deleting the programs directly, instead of using the Add/Remove Programs function, can damage your Windows installation and cause a lot of problems.
Windows XP
If you are running Windows XP, click on start, click on control panel, then click on the Add/Remove Programs icon and wait a brief second for the list to be generated.
If you have a large number of programs installed, it might take a few minutes – just be patient.
Now all that you have to do is to click on the program that you no longer need and select Change/Remove and follow through with the removal process.
Windows Vista
Windows Vista users will click on start, Control Panel and make sure that at the top of the window that you have “Classic View” selected.
Double click on to the Programs and Features button (wait a brief second for your list of programs to come up) and select the programs that you do not need anymore and select Uninstall to remove them from your computer.
Remember: Only remove applications that you’re absolutely certain you don’t need.
After you’ve removed all of the programs that you don’t need, it would be best to restart the computer. After the machine is restarted, you should notice an increase in speed. It probably won’t be dramatic – but it should be a marked and noticeable improvement.
If you’re still not satisfied with the speed of your computer, we offer a System Tune-Up service. We’ll go in an clean out any programs you don’t need, and fine-tune Windows to give you the best performance possible.
For a limited time, the system tune up is priced at just $69. Give our office a call at 734-457-5000 to schedule your appointment. Or, email support@expertsmi.com.