What Can I Do to Make PC Run Faster If your computer goes slow, this may be due to several factors that you can control. The degradation rate of computer could be attributed to several causes, from the malicious (eg. introduction of a virus in the system) to benign (eg. lack of space on the hard disk). So I suggest you take the following steps to make computer faster. Verify and Update Antivirus Program If you have a version of antivirus already installed, it would be good to verify from a reliable source (McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky, etc.) and has been updated with the latest virus definitions. Once verified, run a manual scan on the system to see if you can find anything malicious. Make sure you have downloaded the latest version of the operating system and other applications running on your computer. Organize Hard Drive to Make PC Run Faster After a while of use, computers tend to degrade in speed due to a "fragmentation" of the