Does a free antivirus scan speed up my computer?
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Computers are supposed to make people's lives easier, yet sometimes it feels like they exist around us only to give us endless amounts of frustration. The most popular advice for all the slow computers includes using a free virus scan to speed up your computer, but this make a lot of assumptions about what's going all wrong with your computer . Everyday when you start up your computer it takes an extra time to “read” each breadcrumb, slowing things down. Like any machine that’s exposed to the elements, things start to bog down and the question is will a free virus scan help the situation?
The claim that to “clean up” and “speed up” your PC — for a fee , you will find these kinds of offers everywhere on the internet, but does a free antivirus scan help the speed of your computer?
Your PC or Mac hold temporary files and “cookies” from places you’ve visited on the Web. Cookies can make it faster to load a website that you visit often, but these files stay on you pc all the time if you don,t clean them all the time . Many antivirus company claim that they will improve your PC performance by removing these and in many circumstances this is true, however only few company proved this to their users.
Some really good antivirus company offer special features to the antivirus programs or apps that clean your PC junk files, remove spyware sheets from your computer and allow you to add or remove files, some products also include defragment option on your free scan to speed up your PC performance. So the answer to the question is yes, a free virus scan can detect all of the factors that combine to make your computer slow and help you eliminate them.