While some of the settings of the newest Windows operating systems are designed to make it appear slick the fact that they actually place a drain on the speed of the PC is not good. You can adjust the settings of your computer to improve its performance while still enjoying a cool look. Sometimes even the background on your desktop can affect your system performance. You can turn off the background to see if that makes your system run faster.

Issues with space on your computers hard drive and errors on the drive are other consideration that may be the cause of your computer slowing down. You can use the Scan Disk and Disk Defragmenter utilities to analyze and fix many of the issues discovered and get your computer running optimally.

Your internet browser setting can also affect how fast your browsing experience is as well. The amount of cache and whether you can view pages offline are all settings that can sharply decrease the performance of your online experience.

But you will not achieve as significant improvement in speed from just adjusting your computers settings. If you have registry errors or malware on your computer these are the biggest culprits that affect the performance of computers.

It is important that you have a quality anti virus program running on your computer to prevent infestations. However you need to scan your system to see if there is any malware already installed and remove any issues found.