Who would have ever thought that your computer operating system would be to blame for your computer running slow? Well guess what - it is. Your computer's operating system is designed to work as flawlessly as possible but unfortunately that isn't the case. What happens is that when you fir get your computer there really isn't anything on it and so if runs smoothly. The problem happens the more that you use it because junk starts to build up all over the computer in many different areas and this makes your computer run inefficiently. This is why people are so attracted to the idea of registry cleaners - they are designed to clean one area of your computer that runs inefficiently, but unfortunately it only cleans "one" area of your computer when there are many other areas that need to be taken care of. This is why after you use a registry cleaner your computer really isn't that much faster.

Your computer uses it's RAM as a temporary working place. When some of these files are in RAM they also need a temporary working place of their own and they will use a folder on your hard drive called the temporary folder (or a Temp folder for short). When window's is done working with these files in your temp folder it deletes them and everything is fine and dandy. The problem arises when you kill a program or when it freezes or hangs. What happens to the files in that folder is that they were never actually removed and after a while of this happening your Temp folder can build up a lot of files that are just slowing your computer down. Here's a simple procedure to remove them:

If you are using Windows XP, close all running files and programs and then click Start, click on Run and type %Temp% in the box and hit enter. Now you're going to get a window that will show you the contents of the Temp folder. Just delete everything that you can in that folder. If for some reason it says that you cannot delete a certain file, just skip it and move onto the next one.

For those of you using Windows Vista, close all running programs and files and click Start, type Run in the start menu search box. When the Run window comes up type %Temp% and hit enter. Now delete everything that you see in that folder. If there are some files that you cannot delete, then just ignore them and move onto the next one.

For the most part, this will free up some hard drive space which will make your computer run faster (your hard drive will have less files to take care of) and your computer will have less internal errors which is always a plus.

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