How to speed up my pc without reformatting

How to speed up my pc without reformatting

Hello Adelaide,

The speed of your computer varies from different factors, It could be from your hard drive where it is developing bad sectors that takes your operating system to take longer time to load. Formatting the computer is not a good idea at all. Reformatting the  hard drive will shorten its lifespan and yes it is an effective way to get rid of parasites such as viruses in your system. However, reformatting  the drive will weaken it thus it will become prone to errors in the future. Only use this method when everything else could not be resolved. However, there is only a solution. One way to speed up your computer is to use the tool check disk. To perform the check disk, please follow the instruction given below.

1. Open My Computer
2. Right click on your C drive and select properties
3. On the properties, select tools
4. Look for the error checking and then press Check now
5. Check any of the two check boxes or your can select both and a pop up message will appear that cannot perform action unless your system is restarted.
6. Restart your computer.
7. That's it! When your computer is about to load your operating system it will then proceed to check disk in a blue screen environment. You can still cancel the disk check but it is strongly recommended to continue to analyze your drive from potential errors. The check disk will scan for possible errors of your drive and fix them for you. Your computer will automatically proceed to windows when the check disk completes.

Another way of to speed up your computer is by disk defragmenting. To do this , use the previous instructions that I have given above but you must select defragmenting. It is right next to the error checking and click defragment now. This method will consolidate your files in order to have faster access when needed. For example: if you frequently use Microsoft word for your work. This method will then arrange the files or programs that you frequently use like Microsoft word in order to have a faster start up of that program.
Note
Give your computer a time to spend for disk defragmenting because this method requires much resources so that it will eventually freeze when you are running a defrag and at the same time using your computer for work. Leave the computer for a while and wait to finish the defragmentation process. The defragmentation process will last depending on the size of your total files in your hard drive. The larger the size, the longer it will take to complete.

Lastly, have an updated Antivirus program installed and perform a full system scan. This will help finding potentially or suspicious programs that made your PC slower. Hope this will help to solve your problem.

Good luck and enjoy.