Eco Friendly Green Computing – Fixing a Slow Computer

Upgrade or update your current computer

Before purchasing a new computer, consider upgrading or updating your current computer. Many people experience slowdowns with their current laptop or desktop and figured that it is time to just purchase a new machine. Before spending is money, you should investigate enhancing your current computer.

Fixing a Slow Computer

Has your computer slow down after years of usage? Is time to try a  couple free techniques to liven up your computer’ s performance. Be sure to back up your machine before doing anything.

• Make sure a virus or spyware is not slowing you down. Microsoft Security Essentials is free antivirus software. Malwarebytes is free anti-malware software
• CCleaner as is free software to remove all the junk that may have accumulated in your system. PC Decrapifier removes useless programs bundled with new machines. Revo makes an uninstaller program to help you remove programs that will not uninstall correctly.
• Reinstall Windows without losing your data
• Understand your computer’s performance by running a benchmark program. This will help you understand whether you have a problem or need a faster machine.
• If your computer has less than 1 GB of RAM, consider upgrading it if possible
• If your hard drive is full, consider purchasing an external hard drive to increase your computer storage
• Generally if it costs more than $100 to upgrade your computer, you’re better off recycling your current machine, and purchasing a new one

Buying a new computer

Looking for a more energy saving new computer? Check this database first: EPEAT is a system to help purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on their environmental attributes. They are listed by Bronze, Silver or Gold ratings. EPEAT is run the non profit Green Electronics Council.

Climate Savers also has a database of energy savings computers. This non profit was started by Google and Intel in 2007. Per Climate Savers – “Our goal is to promote development, deployment and adoption of smart technologies that can both improve the efficiency of a computer’s power delivery and reduce the energy consumed when the computer is in an inactive state.”

Erecycle has a list of places where you can recycle your old system.

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Posted on April 27th, 2011
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