If your laptop gets slow, you will be waiting longer and longer for it to complete it’s tasks.

If your Windows Registry contains a lot of outdated entries, you’ll end up with a very slow Windows 7

One of the most important files on a Windows PC is the Windows registry. A log of different information about your computer resides here. E.g. where are your programs installed? Where are the DLL files placed? What application does each short cut in your start menu and your desktop point to?

Everything you do while using Windows ends up in the Windows Registry. That could be the location of the latest files used (documents, spread sheets, images, videos etc.). You will also find data about the applications installed and uninstalled.

Many things can cause a PC to become slow, and they can hit any PC.

You can make your computer fast again using professional tools.

These 3 steps are typically followed by a profressional tool:

• Analyzing the computer looking for known errors that usually makes a computer slow.
• Cleaning up and removing the errors
• Eventually your computer is faster, it will also boot faster because it no loger has any registry errors.

Additional factors that can cause your Windows PC to be slower

Sometimes it is not your Windows Registry that you can blame for your slow notebook.

Sometimes anti-virus programs causes your PC to be slow due to bad configuration

If your anti virus is set up to check for viruses i

Add to that your anti virus software may be set to scan both your local harddrives and all network drives.

Regular scans of your network drives takes a lot of your CPU time, the reason is that network drives are much slower than local harddrives

Beware that normally there is only a minor risk involved if you set your anti virus program to disable analysis of your network drives.

- John Mckinsey Bates