1. Upgrade your memory (RAM). You should have at least 8GB of ram (random access memory). This is what is actively used by your applications to process information. Whether you can upgrade or not, depends on the design of your motherboard. Never buy a computer with a limit of just 4GB of memory! Applications today demand a higher level of system resources to perform at a high level.
2. Hard drive space. Make sure you have a big hard drive. I would recommend 1 terabyte, ie 1000GB hard drive. The reasoning here is simple. The more files you have, the more cluttering you get and when you call for a particular application, cluttering will slow the capacity of an application to find what you have asked for. It’s like trying to find your friend in a crowded field!
3. Multi-tasking, ie working with several applications at the same time. A lot of computer companies like to brag about the multi-tasking capabilities of their machines. This is often just noise. The more applications you open up, the slower will be your computer. The reason is simple. Most of the software depend on the same system resources to do their work. How many times have you opened an application, only to be told that it will not open because another application is open! Aya!
4. Software Upgrades. Make sure you have the latest version of your operating system. Any operating system when it is first launched, does have a lot of “bugs” (ie problems) that are addressed by subsequent revised versions. These are what are labeled as “upgrades”. Microsoft is notorious for launching software that is full of “bugs” and when people start complaining, they “rescue” their clients with software upgrades. This part of the dense jungle of computing in which companies are driven by competition to launch “dirty” products (ie products with bugs). Ordinarily companies would suffer for this, but not Microsoft. Why: their monopoly position insulates them against being punished by consumers. It is because of this many people have gravitated towards “Linux” operating systems as an alternative to Windows.
5. Driver updates. Wikipedia {A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing to know precise details about the hardware being used.} You should always have the latest drives for your particular operating system–whether you have Windows or Linux.
6. In today’s computing, system clean up utilities are critical. These will clean up registry, memory, viruses, hard drives and optimize your system. There are “free” utilities such as CClean (they actually have advertisers galore underwriting the costs). Commercial software include such prominent names like McAfee, Norton, etc. I am cheap, so I have been using Spyhunter for years. It’s not the best, but does what I need to do!

DON’T BE A SUCKER, SO KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN AND ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT!

Prof. Ronald Edari