Frustration increases as your laptop gets older and slower.

If your Registry is a mess you can end up with a very slow XP

Windows Registry is an important file on your windows operating system and it contains a lot of information about your notebook. E.g. where are software installed, which DLL files are shared among the installed sofware, short cuts in you Windows start menu and on your desktop.

Almost every action in Windows is recorded by Windows Registry. E.g. the path to the latest documents, videos and images used, in addition there are information about the programs you have currently installed and the programs you have previously uninstalled.

Many things can cause a PC to become slow, and they can hit any PC.

It just means that your computer needs professional help!

A professional solution normally follows these steps:

• Scanning your PC and detecting the errors that causes your PC to be slow.
• Cleaning up and removing the errors
• Finally you PC has become faster, it may even boot faster and it no longer contains registry errors.

Additional factors that can cause your Windows PC to be slower

Sometimes it is not your Windows Registry that you can blame for your slow laptop.

Occasionally anti virus software is causing your computer to be slow because it is configured badly

The anti virus program can be configured to analize irrelevant files, this will cause the program to waste a lot of valuable CPU time.

Additionally anti virus programs are often set to analyza local harddrives as well as network drives.

Scanning network drives is usually very CPU consuming because a network is much slower than a local local hard drive.

Normally there is hardly no risk involved in disabling network scanning in your anti-virus software

- Eric Waterhouse Hansen

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