Speed Up Your Slow Computer and Make it Last
click on the Start menu, choose Run, and type “msconfig” in the box (no quotes). Click on the “Services” tab, and you will see a list of programs that are running. Leave most of them alone, but you can de-activate anything that you recognize and don’t use. For instance, Real Player, iTunes, and other media players love to run in the background because it lets them open quickly; they have a head start. Shutting those down will make your whole computer faster.
Is your computer still running slowly? You might have a more serious problem. A common solution is to clean out the registry, a place where your computer writes small files when it performs common tasks. I have never needed to use a registry
