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How to Speed Up Your Computer

There are many reasons why your computer may seem to slow down. Try the following tricks to see if they help speed up your computer.

• Close all programs running "in the background"
Most of the programs running in the background on your computer can be found in the System Tray by your clock; try right-clicking on each icon and choosing "Close" or "Exit"; do NOT disable Trend OfficeScan, and keep in mind that disabling Hotsync will prevent your Palm from being able to sync to your computer until you reboot or turn Hotsync back on).

• Run Disk Defragmenter

• Run Disk Cleanup
Disk Cleanup Utility can easily determine which files on a hard drive may no longer be needed and delete those files. In addition to freeing up potentially significant amounts of hard drive space, using Disk Cleanup on a regular basis can significantly improve system performance. found on the eldergeek.com
1. Click Start
2. Choose Programs
3. Click Accessories
4. Choose System Tools
5. Choose Disk Cleanup
6. Select the C: drive and press OK

• Add RAM (a.k.a. Memory)
RAM can be compared to a person's short-term memory and the hard disk to the long-term memory. The short-term memory focuses on work at hand, but can only keep so many facts in view at one time. If short-term memory fills up, your brain sometimes is able to refresh it from facts stored in long-term memory. A computer also works this way. If RAM fills up, the processor needs to continually go to the hard disk to overlay old data in RAM with new, slowing down the computer's operation. found on techtarget.com. To have your work computer evaluated to see whether RAM will help you, please talk to a Law Computing Support Staff member.

• Request a system analysis by LCS
If you continue to experience very slow boot-up times or program operation, let Law Computing Support know.  We may be able to reduce the number of programs that are started when your computer turns on, reducing the drain on your system resources.

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