Click on it, select the hard drive you wish to defrag and then click Defragment Disk. Do you run antivirus? Is it old? Some companies of late have really focused on getting system impact as small as it can get, notably Symantec, whose Norton software is now incredibly trim, but is still fighting its old reputation for bloatware. Performance impact is a tricky metric to cover ; however, for best overall performance and speed we recommend Bitdefender Total Security , followed by Norton Internet Security If you're of the free mindset, AVG Anti-Virus Free provided the lowest average system impact in our tests once scan time was taken into account.
Run a full scan, protect yourself While we're at it, let's make sure there's no malware on the system that could be slowing your machine down. Run a full scan through your antivirus program, then install Spybot Search and Destroy , update and then do a full scan there, too. Run an immunisation when the scan is done, and if you want to be doubly sure, grab SpywareBlaster as well, update and then perform an immunisation there as well.
Ensure that both Windows and your hardware drivers are up to date — apart from bug fixes, which should make your system work better, you may be getting new features as well. Graphics card drivers in particular should be kept up to date, as performance improvements are introduced frequently. One tip: don't use the drivers provided by Windows update. These are often cut down, or sometimes don't even work. XP users can run Windows update by visiting update. Don't forget your browsers While you're at it, update your browsers as well, especially if you're running Internet Explorer 6.
Not only will updating your browser get you new features and bring you in line with the latest standards, allowing websites to render properly; optimisations are being made to JavaScript engines all the time, making modern websites faster. If you can determine what part is the bottleneck in your system, a simple upgrade will be much cheaper than getting a whole new system. With laptops, your options here are pretty much limited to RAM, hard drive and wireless card, but desktop users will have a little more room to play with.
RAM If you've got less than 4GB of RAM, investigate adding more — with more moving online, and browsers being particularly memory hungry, having more memory is never a bad thing. Just be aware that if you have 4GB RAM or more, you'll need a bit operating system in order to recognise and use it all — which for some people still running XP might mean an operating system upgrade as well. Hard drive The hard disk is typically the slowest part of the computer. When loading data or if you run out of RAM, your hard drive gets hit — and if it's old and slow, you're going to feel it.
While solid-state drives SSDs have definitely addressed the speed issue, they're expensive compared to mechanical hard drives and are much lower in capacity.
If you can only afford a mechanical hard drive, make sure to get one that's at least rpm. As a basic rule of thumb, larger capacity drives at the same revolutions per minute are faster than smaller capacity drives. Graphics If you're finding games are a bit slow on your desktop, it may be time to update your graphics card.
The app gives you insight into what's taxing the processor, how much memory something is taking up and even how much network data a program has used.
An easy way to open Task Manager is to right-click on the Taskbar and select Task Manager from the list of options. Task Manager's default view doesn't show a lot of information beyond which apps are currently running handy if you already know if you want to close one out. To view what really matters, click More Details in the bottom left corner. By default, this list is broken down into Apps and Background Processes. It's refreshed constantly, with the various columns constantly updating.
My advice is to let Task Manager run for a few minutes and watch it. Watch for apps that shoot up to the top of the list, then disappear a few seconds later. Look for processes that stay at the top of the list with high memory or CPU use.
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