How to Speed Up a Computer

 How to Speed Up a Computer

-Dr. Lalit Kumar Setia

Everybody wants to run computers faster and faster. There are new apps, new software to run the computer faster but at the same time, such apps and software always make some undesirable changes to the computer or sometimes steal the information. I would like to describe two software which is freely available and doing no harm to your computer or laptop. The software helps in improving the speed of a computer.

(A) Google Desktop:

The Google Desktop software can be used to explore the computer disk for searching files, music, webpages, google gadgets, chats, etc. However, the software had been discontinued by Google due to emerging new cloud-based systems. The Google Desktop software was launched in the year 2008 and is available today on various sites which maintain old software like Filehippo.com. In Google Desktop, the software contains various gadgets including e-mail, scratchpad, photos, news, weather, web clips, and google talk.

Why it was discontinued?

Google Desktop has been targeted by hackers and they made the software open to various vulnerabilities. If Google Desktop is installed on a computer or laptop and there is no good updated anti-virus is installed; then the software can be targeted by hackers to seek unauthorized access to the computer or laptop.

Install it along with ensuring updated virus on computer or laptop:

In order to increase the speed of the computer, go to https://softfamous.com and download Google Desktop from https://softfamous.com/google-desktop/. The Google Desktop also protects the computer or laptop from cyber attacks by strengthening the protection level.

(B)  Download and install Process Monitor Software:

This software can also be downloaded by exploring the websites through google. When I explored it, I had found it on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon. This software assists users to view the real-time processes of the computer or laptop and take necessary action to restrict the viruses from taking rules upon the processes. The malefide processes can be identified which are reducing the speed of the computer. It will be downloaded in a zipped file. Only it is extracted, click upon the file ProcMon and it will open the software window showing the existing processes running on the computer or laptop.

What to do while monitoring the processes?

Like in MS-Word, the ProcMon has tools available below the menu bar to turn off and turn on the processes. Turning off and on Registry can be done by clicking upon a tool. When you turn on the registration process it will show, what is going on in the registry of the computer.

The SVC Host Process is a secure process; never do anything with this process to keep your computer secure.

All processes starting with Reg are registry processes. Try to identify the waste processes and which software is running such processes. Install the useless software having no utility for you. Restart the computer and notice the speed of the computer.

Do it again and again.

*Copyright © 2018 Dr. Lalit Kumar. All rights reserved. 

This article is written by Dr. Lalit Kumar Setia; a renowned author and trainer. He completed his Doctorate in Commerce from Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra and MBA in Information Technology from GJU, Hisar. He also wrote two books, 15 research papers, and organized more than 200 Training Courses during his working period since 2006 in Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Gurugram. The article was firstly published in 2017 and last updated on 30th October 2021. The writer can be contacted on lalitkumarsetia@gmail.com 

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