How to stop your computer from hanging

A slow computer is disgusting and annoying. This is a computer problem that happens in most times and is linked to the background processes running. Running heavy softwares on a computer that doesn’t meet the minimum specifications of that software makes the computer to be slow. For instance running a 64 bit software on a computer that runs on a 32bit operating system. Computer freezing oftenly happens while you are the middle of working on something important, such that restarting even would very difficult.

One of the possible ways probably many people with computers know is getting rid of softwares you don’t necessarily need. Do a system checker with help of free tools for instance Jv16 power tools which helps in removing unused softwares and files from the system. Also there are occasional updates that are done by Microsoft and ignoring these updates will also contribute to your computer hanging. To be on the safe side make sure system updates in turned on so that whenever updates are made it automatically updates itself.

Another thing to do is to update your drivers regularly. To update your driver, you do it from the device manager and check that there is no conflict in there on the device driver. Device driver instruct the operating system and all software to communicate with a specific hardware for example a printer. Also remember to scan your computer frequently for malwares using a malware software like antivirus. Through your computer penetrating different sites online, malwares could easily infect your operating system and it is a good routine to do scanning.

I will take you through the easiest way of all to revive and get back that computer on its speed again. Tap your start window button on the keyboard together with “R” button and the following window opens up.

Type “msconfig” on the text box and hit enter to proceed to the following window

Click on services at the top and it opens up all the processes running. The processes making your computer hang are on that list, you will find some are stopped processes and others are in running mode. Next step click on “Hide all Microsoft services” by selecting that box.

Then hit disable all button, apply the changes and click ok to close that window. Restart your computer and you will see the difference as compared to how it was before. It is very easy to make your computer run faster as long as you keep an eye on it and do routine scanning to avoid malwares. Make your computer perform best at all times.