The Computeractive Ultimate Guide to Making your PC Last Longer
The Computeractive Ultimate Guide to Making your PC Last Longer will help you extend the life of your PC, by showing you how you can carry out careful housekeeping and upgrades.
We explain how the tools that are built into Windows can speed up your PC, and also look at other utilities that will keep it ticking over. We guide you through the process of simple, cost-effective upgrades, and tell you how to re-install everything from scratch, with step-by-step workshops and features in simple, plain English.
Learn about key maintenance tools built in to Windows and those available from other sources, for tasks such as defragmentation and registry cleaning, that help your PC run more smoothly.
Sometimes a simple upgrade can transform a PC - we’ll guide you through tasks from picking the right memory to swapping your hard drive for an SSD or changing your graphics card, and help you work out what’s really worth doing.
Cleaning everything out and starting again can seem daunting, but our dedicated section covers everything from backing up, via partitioning and re-installing to making an old PC as good - and as fast – as new!
