If your computer is slow to load up programs, then it’s likely going to be highly frustrating and annoying to use. This is a problem which even the most advanced gaming systems can fall foul of, and if it’s happening to your PC, there’s a quick solution for it.

The problem with most computers that are slow to load up is all about how they go about loading programs in the first place. Most of the time, computers end up running slowly because they struggle to read the files and settings that programs need to run. Each time you load up a program, it has to read 100′s of different files to help it to recall all the different settings and options that the program has, and the bottom-line in why it runs slow is because your PC struggles to read the settings & options it has stored.

To fix a computer that’s slow to load programs, you must first make sure that all the settings and options it has are easily readable and able to be read quickly and easily. That’s a job which is focused on the “Registry” of Windows, which is a big database that stores all the settings and information for your PC. The registry is where all the programs on your computer store information and settings for your PC, and is constantly being called 100′s of times when you open a new program. Read the rest of this entry »