Many clients of ours call us complaining that their laptop or desktop  is running very slow or sluggish.  The computer may appear to ”lock up” or just does not seem to be running at peak performance as it once did when they first bought it.  And as more time goes by the problem seems to get worse.  What they are all experiencing is a degradation in the perfomance of their computer.  Over the course of time junk such as cookies, temp files, history files, etc. accumulate onto the hard drive which tends to slow the computer system down when you need to access information on the drive.  In addition, installing software programs after you first buy your computer system has a profound negative effect on the system performance as vital memory is used up during the start-up of windows operating system to run these software programs. Also what happens over time is the hard drive tends to get fragmented (parts of a file gets spread out to different areas of the hard drive making it take longer to access information).  This also will slow your system down considerably.

What we do is to apply a tune-up and clean-up to correct the above issues.  This will allow your system to run back at peak performance as it once did when you first bought your computer system.  The tune-up includes defragmentation, removing unnecessary start-up files during the boot process of windows, and disabling any services you don’t use.  The clean-up requires us to run a hard drive scan to remove any “junk” files and registry clutter that may have accumulated over time.

In general, tune-ups and clean-ups should be maintained at least once a year but we recommend at least every 6 months to keep your computer system running at peak performance.  As time goes by and if your computer system is well maintained as we recommend, the system will respond faster and more efficiently to your requests and you will enjoy a more happy computing experience with it.