How (Not) to Make Your Computer Run Faster With that advertised software.

If your Television habits are like mine, you have no doubt seen ads for a product that claims that it will speed up your computer. Are they any good? Well, not really. At best, most of them are complete rubbish and don't do anything you could not already do. At worst, some of them exaggerate the issues and behave like a rogue antivirus program until you pay.

Some may be guilty of nothing more then overselling the product. Because those ads claim that the product will clean malware from your PC. But most of the advertised programs are registry cleaners, so how does a registry cleaner remove malware? It doesn't, so it can't. If your computer is infected with malware, you need a program designed to remove malware. Not a program designed to be a registry cleaner, if that.

Some claim that they will defragment your hard drive, which you can already do with Windows. So why would you pay for something you can already do for free?

In reality, most of these programs are nothing more then registry cleaners. They will do what a registry cleaner normally does, but nothing else. The bottom line: Nothing can bring a five year old or older computer back to the speed it was when it was new.

One registry cleaner that I use is called CCleaner. It does it's job well and I have noticed quite a difference in the speed of my computer with it. It is free, so it will not exaggerate in order to get you to pay for it. You can find it and read more about it here.

Thank You for reading, as always, I invite you to comment below with any questions or comments.