You buy a computer of the year with high-end features and after a few months you realize that its performance is not being that of the first weeks. It frustrates you very much to know that after having spent so much pasta you cannot enjoy the agility that your investment deserves. However, this is not necessarily the fault of the team, but of your bad habits of use that have made you fill it with whatever unnecessary program you went through agency.
RAM memory is responsible for keeping the computer stable while it is running several programs simultaneously . Depending on the breadth of this memory, more applications may be executed without affecting performance, but everything has a limit, and when that limit is about to be reached, problems begin. That is why we must be very careful with what we download, since many times these software can run in the background and take up processing space that end up compromising the operation of the equipment.
Now that you understand that this is the key to maintaining the health of your computer to the fullest, we proceed to teach you some methods to optimize and improve the performance of RAM in Windows 7, 8 and 10 operating systems . In addition, we will give you some tips to learn how to prevent it from collapsing, as it could eventually be damaged by excessive abuse of its capabilities.
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Steps and methods to optimize and improve Windows performance 10, 8 and 7
There are multiple ways to do this. On the internet you will find many methods that all they do is sell you smoke so that you end up installing a software that instead of improving the performance of this component end up affecting it, since they run in the background perennially.
So here we will teach you only to apply the actions that are really worthwhile and are really necessary to get what you propose in this case.
Free Space
This is one of the most basic and used methods when speed up your pc . In case you did not know, each program you run on your computer leaves small files as an activity log history so that the system remembers aspects such as sessions or user habits when using them.
In principle they are not heavy at all but after a while they are so many that they end up occupying a considerable space in the RAM of your computer . When you improve your computer, all junk or cache files that take up an amount of space in its operation are removed, and this is the reason why it runs slower.
Next we will show you the steps to follow to clean the RAM of your PC:
- To start you must locate the folder « Team «. Mostly you can locate it at the start of Windows, then you will type in the search space and then click on the option.
- Then a window will appear and you will right click on the hard disk icon , then in the list provided by Windows you will click on “Properties”.
- Clicking on properties will open a window that will be called hard disk properties, you will see an option that says “free up space”, you click on it to continue.
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- You will have to wait for the system to be fully analyzed , in the analysis it will collect data to know what it can eliminate and what not. Upon completion we recommend that you select all the options that he gives you so that you can do a deeper cleaning of the system and click on respectivelyAccept instead.
- Ready, and your entire system is cleaner , although it is recommended that you restart your computer.
Remove viruses
Viruses can make your computer function more slowly , since they take up space and also duplicate your information by converting it into junk information. It is also capable of eating or damaging hardware drivers (mouse, screen, or other peripheral) causing them to not work properly.
Deleting it when they are already in your system is the most known action you can do. To do this you can download an external antivirus or use the always reliable Windows Defender . If you opt for this last option, follow the steps here indicated and take off that headache:
- In the Windows search engine you will type “Windows defend” and click on the option shown.
- When you open the software you will click on «Browse ». The antivirus will automatically scan the entire system your computer has to find possible infected files.
- Upon completion if you notice that the antivirus has detected some threats, under recommended actions you will choose, delete or remove , then apply actions.
Just wait, reboot the system and at a glance you can see that the computer works faster than the previous times you turned it on or restarted.
Defragment the equipment
When your device crashes or has a small amount of memory on your hard drive, may be because of the way it is organized on it . When you defragment the equipment, all the information is organized again and this in turn accelerates its operation.
Although it seems complicated it is not if you follow the steps that we will show you, so you can do it every time you need it:
- On the Windows startup you will locate « Computer «, where you will click on it.
- When you open the hard drive, you will have to right click on it , among the options that will appear you will locate “Properties”.
- When you open the disk properties, you will then find the tools option at the top of the window. When you open the list of options you will click on “ Defragment now “.
- You will select the system disk (mostly the device label is called “C”), and click on “Scan disk” .
- After you finish analyzing the disk, you will be shown how fragmented it is for you to proceed and click on «Defragment disk».
- Upon completing the operation you will see that your hard drive is already defragmented . Then it is advisable to restart the computer so that it can assimilate the action already done.
Update the Windows
Another reason why the computer may be running slower is p because the operating system is obsolete or outdated . Therefore, it is recommended to update it whenever necessary. When you update Windows , you allow your system to be in an optimal state for proper operation.
Next we will show you how to update it step by step in the easiest way for those who are at level zero:
- In the Windows search engine you will type “ Control Panel “, and you will click on the option, in order to open it.
- Then, proceed to follow the path System and Security> Windows Update .
- When you get there, you will locate the option of the window called «Check for updates».
- You will immediately notice that the search begins (keep in mind that for this you have to be connected to the internet).
- Upon completion you click on «Install updates» and we just have to wait.
If you have already completed all the steps you only have to restart the device . When you restart the computer you will see that it does not turn off the computer immediately but will start with its configuration to assimilate the updates.
When turning on the same process will happen until all updates are installed correctly . Do not disconnect or turn off the computer as this will interrupt the update and may create errors in the system that may slow the computer.
Free RAM with a Script
There is a trick that few people know but we do because we are true experts. It’s about creating a script with a special code to do a RAM reset that closes all the unnecessary programs and then only those you really need run again.
To do this you must do the following:
- Go to the desktop, right click, position yourself in “New” and then left click on “Text document”.
- Mystring (1000000000) if your memory is 2GB
- Mystring (1655000000) if 3GB
- Mystring (2000000000) if 4GB
- Mystring (2655000000) if it’s 5GB
- Mystring (3000000000) if 6GB
- Mystring (4000000000) if 8GB
- Then you look for the “Save as” option.
Depending on the Ram memory capacity of your computer you will write one of the following codes:
- Then you save the file with the name you want and you put the extension .vbe at the end to make it executable.
- After that you double click on the file you have left and the script will be executed, closing all the programs you have open at once.
After doing these processes you will notice that your computer will be much more agile than before and you will be able to enjoy it as if you had just taken it out of the box. Our recommendation is that you do them regularly, at least once a week, and don’t wait for your computer to slow down to do so.