Computers often slow down over time as you save more and more files onto your computer. There are a number ways you can help make your computer run a bit faster. You can start by scanning for viruses. Viruses can often download themselves onto your computer without you even knowing about it, if you open a harmful link or a spam email sent to you, then this can cause Viruses to leak onto your computer. These viruses can cause damage to your computer, such as attacking unprotected software and even deleting files from your computer. It can cost hundreds of pounds to restore the damage caused by viruses and you might not be able to get your files back. Keeping your anti-virus software up to date and running systems checks to ensure that your computer is free from viruses can help ensure you do not have to go through this. Virus scans can sometimes take minutes and other times take hours, depending on how much data you have saved on your computer. When you run virus scans, the anti-virus software scans your computer, looking for viruses. If the software discovers a virus it can get rid of the virus for you. If left along the virus will continue to attack your computer. Therefore it is important to run virus scans.
You can buy antivirus software such as Norton online, http://uk.norton.com/antivirus/ from £39.99 for one year and this covers 3 computers. Or you can buy cover for two years for £64.99. Norton is one of the top antivirus software programs, I personally use it and find it very good, it will alert you about harmful websites and it will automatically run antivirus scans and let you know if it has had to get rid of any viruses.
You could also try defragmenting the computer. You can do this by going to the disk defragmenter; this can be found in all programs > accessories > system tools. Defragmenting your computer will look through your computers hard drive, there may be many files that are out of order, defragmenting the hard drive means that the computer will rearrange the files into order. Although if you defragment the computer too many times it can damage the hard drive and even cause the computer to crash, this can cause you to loose all files on your computer and there is no way of getting them back. Although if you do defragment it can make your computer run a bit faster.
You could also get another computer processing unit or CPU. A CPU is the hardware inside your computer that carries out the instructions that you give the computer. Computers can have more than one CPU this is known as Multiprocessing. Adding a CPU may speed your computer up considerably as it will allow your computer to process more information at a time. You can buy a new CPU online on shopping websites such as Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=430515031 although prices range depending on who is selling it.
For computer games, it might be a good idea to upgrade your computer’s graphics card. Trusted computer shops such as PC World has graphics cards ranging in prices http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/components-upgrades/graphics-cards/graphics-cards/716_7054_70058_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html the cheapest starts at £22.99 to £899.99 being the most expensive; depending on what you need it for. If you wish to change your graphics card it is important that you buy the best one for your needs. A better graphics card will help with your computers memory as well as the graphics, which will be better for gaming. Although you must look at your current graphics card to know what you need to upgrade it to.
You may need to upgrade your random access memory or RAM for short. The bigger your RAM is then the more memory you have on your computer to save files, if you have more memory then your computer will run faster. PC World has a number of RAM’s for sale http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/search-keywords/xx_xx_xx_xx_xx/ram/xx-criteria.html at a range of prices from £9.99 to £49.99. Again it is important to look at your RAM to see what you need to upgrade to.
You could however, get a gaming computer. If you were to do this you should look into Alienware as it the main gaming hardware available. Produced by Dell in America, Alienware is shipped all around the world. Their website allows you to build your own computer to best suit your needs. The computers range in price from £569 for the Alienware X51 with 6GB memory, 1TB hard drive and a 1GB video card. To the one of the most expensive at £1,519 for the Alienware Aurora with 16GB memory, 2TB hard drive and a 1.5GB video card. Although these prices are just for the processor, you can also get Laptops and peripherals such as a monitor, keyboard, computer mouse and headphones. You can buy these items online at this address, http://www.alienware.co.uk/
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