It is first worth explaining why it is that Windows based PCs slow down in the first place. The reason is that a computers internal database, which is called a registry, becomes inefficient or, worse, corrupted.

Your PC constantly refers to the registry as it needs it to run all of the programs that you have installed. So, every time you open an application or game, your registry is read or edited.

New PCs start off with a fresh, error free registry, but as you add, delete and move programs, it begins to lose track of what programs you have and where the data for them is stored.

It is this bloating and damaging of the registry that causes your computer to slow down and / or crash. The increased size of it means it takes longer to find the data that you are asking for, and the faulty entries confuse it, and when computers do not know what to do they either freeze up or crash.

You might think that you would need to buy a new, faster computer, but you are in luck, because there is software, called a registry cleaner, which can help get your PC up to speed again.

A registry cleaner will scan and repair your registry. This would be a tedious task to do manually since we are talking about thousands and thousands of entries which need to be checked.

Registry software is fully automated, so there is need to worry about making any mistakes that will make the problem even worse. It is fast too, as it takes just an hour or two, depending on how much data you have stored on your computer, to do all that it needs to do.

It is very easy to use a registry cleaner to make your computer run faster. You do not need any special knowledge of your PC or Windows.

You simply start it by clicking a button on the screen, and then wait a little while. It will start automatically cleaning your registry and, once it is done, you will see a screen which shows you how many errors have been found and fixed.

A fast running, error free computer is just an hour or two away with the help of this single, affordable piece of software. Sounds simple, right? That’s because it is!

So, to summarize, frequent maintenance using a registry cleaner is crucial to make your computer go faster.

In our registry cleaner comparison we tested many registry cleaners and found that Registry Easy is the best registry cleaner to make a computer faster. We can therefore highly recommend it.

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I’ve also been reading a few articles about how Windows 7 will be the best OS ever (not necessarily my opinion), will beat Mac OSX and various flavours of Linux into the ground, and that there will be a wild upgrade from old Windows users.

However, in my opinion, I don’t think that will be the case. Windows 7 does deliver a much better product than Vista, and certainly enhances the ‘Windows Experience’. But if I was still using XP, I would still have the same reservations about upgrading to Windows 7 that I had before (grudgingly) upgrading to Vista.

Before I moved to Vista, and that was only due to buying a new laptop, my old XP machine worked flawlessly. All the programs I used worked without any problems. All the hardware I had worked without any problems. So when I read about all the issues Vista had, and that you had to buy new programs to get them to work, along with the machine spec needed to get Vista running, I decided at the time to stick with what I had. Even when I was looking to buy a new laptop, I seriously considered moving to Ubuntu 8, or getting a ‘barebones’ laptop and re-installing XP.

User still on XP will still be in the same boat as they were when Vista was released. If they want to upgrade to Windows 7, they’ll still need a decent machine spec. They’ll need to check that all their hardware will work with Vista, and that all the programs they use will work with Windows 7. It still won’t be that easy a choice to make. And that’s only referring to the Home users.

Businesses still using Win XP will still have all the same expenses involved in moving to Vista as they would moving to Windows 7. And given the current economic climate, I don’t think they’ll want to be forking out huge amounts just to have the latest OS.

There may also be other reasons apart from cost that mean businesses won’t consider moving, for example, in-house software that won’t work on Vista let alone Windows 7 without huge amounts of development work.

I think all of this means that we won’t see a rush of users upgrading to Windows 7, at least not if they’re using XP at the moment. The best thing to come out of Vista is that a lot of ground work for hardware drivers, and compatibility issues have been resolved. But I don’t think we’ll see the death of old Windows just yet.

Published with permission on behalf of Tony McElroy, by Martin Park.

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Personally I love right-clicking because it’s such a great way to get more options quickly. For example, the Send To option when you click on a folder in Windows Explorer can save you a lot of time.

By default the Windows 7 Send To menu contains only a few locations and doesn’t give you that much choice:

That doesn’t look too impressive. But luckily there is a trick to it – press Shift before right-clicking and the Send To menu will expand:

Now that looks a lot better, don’t you think?

Switch Between Windows Faster

The Minimize – Maximize window animation was first introduced in Windows Vista and made its way into Windows 7. While it does look cool, it also creates a delay and makes your PC slower. Disabling this effect is really easy. It will speed up your computer and make it more responsive.

• Go to Start, type in SystemPropertiesPerformance and hit Enter
• Go to the Visual Effects tab
• Uncheck Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing
• Click OK

Enjoy a faster and more responsive PC.

Use Problems Step Recorder

Have you ever struggled when trying to describe a problem to a computer technician? I bet you have – after all some problems are almost impossible to describe with words.

Windows 7 offers an easy solution – a tool called Problems Step Recorder. Basically, it works like any screenshot software and also records everything you do with your mouse, etc. So now you can use it to monitor the system and create a report. Then you can send the report to your computer technician or any other user.

To test the tool, simply type psr.exe in the Start menu and hit Enter.

There are many other ways to optimize your Windows 7 and Auslogics BoostSpeed will help you make it even faster and customize it to your liking.

Liz Vasileva is a technology writer who blogs for Auslogics Software. She loves classical music, opera, travelling, and of course everything to do with computers.Read more of her articles at  http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog

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