Smart Tips To Fix Your Computer

The problem of slow computer can be easily fixed by removing unnecessary processes from the system.

Users facing the problem of slow computer really need to monitor their systems to find out what process is running on the system. There are many unnecessary applications that run in the system background and create troubles for users. Such applications consume system resources such as memory and processor.

The Applications tab in Windows Task Manager just shows the main programs running on the system. There are various other processes that run on the.

Although most of the processes listed in Task Manager will be genuine and legal tools required for Windows and other programs to run properly, users may also find some useless processes that consume a lot of memory.

Task Manager shows the name of all the running processes and also how much processor (CPU) time they are consuming as a percentage of the total available. Users can also get information about the amount of memory a particular program consumes. By checking the memory status, users can easily decide whether it is sourcing the slow computer.

To stop running a process, users can anytime right click on the process and choose the end process option. However, this is just a temporary method to stop a program and the program is likely to run again when the computer is restarted. At the same time, users should also make sure that they are not ending a process required by Windows to work properly.

Here are some of the measures to remove unnecessary processes causing slow computer:

System Configuration Utility – msconfig

Users can access this by clicking on Start > Run > Type msconfig > ok. And then navigate to Startup tab in system configuration utility. Users can easily find all the programs here which are running at the startup. Here, users can simply remove unwanted processes.

Windows Services – services.msc

Here users can control the startup of processes that run under system, local services or network services. There are a few services that are not required for all, but still Windows makes it default for all to run it in view of those who use it. Users can enter this by clicking Start > Run > services.msc > ok.

Scheduled Tasks – Windows Task Scheduler

There are certain software that adds their applications into Scheduled Tasks. These applications cannot be found either through msconfig or services.msc, but still they get activated at times. Users can access these applications by clicking Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks. In case if there are some useless applications, users can simply delete them.

Software Settings

There are few software which ads themselves to the startup list even if the user has disabled them. Generally, they will be available at tabs like Options, Settings, and Preferences. Users are required to go through them in detail.

Users can easily identify a particular process and its applicability by using the Web. They just need to type the name of the process, for example, “svchost.exe” into a search engine and see what other people have their opinion about it. Users can then remove a program accordingly. They may also provide instructions to remove it permanently. Further, users are required to repeat these steps periodically to avoid the problem of a slow computer.

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