| You may be asking yourself why is your computer | | | | Another commonly found problem is spyware. This sits |
| slow in performance and how to fix a slow windows | | | | in the registry area and is notorious for stealing your |
| XP computer. Are you trying to figure out how to | | | | personal information. They conceal themselves in the |
| speed it up like it was when brand new? | | | | registry and the entries that are affected by such |
| The first thing that comes to mind is getting a | | | | spyware stop functioning properly and slow your |
| computer expert or turning to a computer repair store. | | | | computer to a crawl. |
| There doesn't seem to be another way out apart | | | | To get a clean registry and to get malicious spyware |
| from shelling out money. What's worse is some people | | | | out of your system, use a registry scanner. This is |
| hop on to buying a new computer and selling the slow | | | | readily and freely available on the internet. So, instead |
| one off to a second hand shop or giving it away to | | | | of investing huge bucks in computer repair or a new |
| someone they know at a dirt cheap price. | | | | PC use basic maintenance tricks which, when taken |
| What they are missing here is this. Before taking any | | | | care of, will make your windows XP computer run |
| of these steps they need to look carry out some | | | | fast like when it was new. |
| basic maintenance. | | | | Fixing these issues does not need an expert in |
| The main reasons behind a machine becoming slow | | | | computers. Neither is it costly. You just need to be |
| are due to the registry. A windows computer has a | | | | aware of these things that play a huge role in |
| database of settings and information in a directory | | | | determining your machines speed at the end of the |
| called registry. This place stores all your application | | | | day. There's no need to panic when you have a slow |
| settings, hardware settings and more. | | | | computer, all you need to do is follow the guidelines |
| When you install new software, it puts an entry in the | | | | mentioned in this article. This along with some |
| registry. This is why the registry keeps expanding. A | | | | preventive maintenance goes a long way in keeping |
| registry gets corrupt and slows the computer down | | | | your PC healthy and fast and speeding up a slow |
| and results in a slow windows XP computer. | | | | windows XP computer right away. |