1.  Don’t let Windows Explorer bring you down!
By improving folder browsing you can ensure that Windows Explorer window does not take the rest of your operating system down.  What you should do is look to launch separate folder windows in multiple processes.  So how do you do this?  Click on My Computer, tools, then Folder Options. Click on the View tab. Scroll down to "Launch folder windows in a separate process," and enable this option.

2.  Is Your Registry Corrupt
Your computer registry is the powerhouse of your computer.  If your windows registry is not free from damage and well organized, your system will become unbelievably slow and is likely to start  freezing, and crashing.  You should regularly clean your windows registry with and effective registry cleaning product to ensure that you computer is running fast and your registry is performing optimally.  

3.  Don’t automatically search for network files and printers when you use windows explorer
To disable this option open ‘My Computer’ and go to tools and folder options.  From here click the view tab and unceck ‘automatically search for network folders and printers’.  Apply your changes, click OK and then restart your pc.  You are away!!

4. Performance Counters Reduce Performance!
Windows XP in an ironic twist has a performance monitor utility which actually takes up system resources and can reduce the performance of your computer. What you can do is disable this monitor is download and install yhe Extensible Performance Counter List – and then select each counter in the 'Extensible performance counters' window and clear the 'performance counters enabled' checkbox at the button below.

5.  Stop USB Devices That You Are Not Using
Having a range of printesr, cameras and other USB devices connected to your computer can make it slow and sluggish when it is loading or starting.  Why you may ask?  Well it is actually because you computer will look to load the drivers for all of these items that are attached to your pc when it starts up.  So – if you don’t need them all the time – disconnect them!

6. No More Spyware of Viruses
Unfortunately it is just a part of life these days that if you are connected to the net – you are at risk of spyware, viruses, malware, adware etc.  It will be no surprise that this can slow a computer and damage files etc that are on your pc.  So – two options here – one is to make sure your computer is protected from viruses, spyware etc from the outset… the other is to try to pick up the pieces after it has damaged your computer!! 

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