With all the viruses, trojans and spyware out there, Nassau County Computer Repair Specialists offer several ways to help improve the speed of your computer without spending money on hardware.

One of the easiest is to uninstall any programs, games or utilities that you do not use.  Often thre are old games or applications that stay on your machine and take up space as well as use memory.  Users would be surprised what services load up when you turn on your computer.  By uninstalling these programs that are not used, it can also free up memory as well as disc space according to Nassau County Computer Repair Specialist Gary Pancamo Jr.

Next, install some sort of spyware blocker.  There are some that are paid and some that are free.  Spybot is one we use and is free just remember to keep it up to date as every day new threats come through the Internet trying to clog user’s machines.

Another one where you must have a program is Anti-Virus.  Most of these are paid and for good reason.  Threats come in so often that a company must have dedicated people in order to find ways to clean these viruses and trojans.  Companies like Eset, Norton and Kaspersky are top notch.  Remember to do at least a once a week scan of all your devices such as hard drives, memory sticks or removeable drives.  You never know where a problem could be.

The last resort if your machine is so slow is to reinstall Windows.  Many PC manufacturers offer a reinstall disc to bring your machine back to the original statebut with this you will lose all programs and files so be sure to backup or burn to CD/DVD anything you want.  Make sure also you have the programs original discs to reinstall any thing you want as this will wipe out your computer.