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No were not talking about your drug addiction you can kick that habit another day. Were talking about keeping your computer clean from viruses, spyware and adware. These three factors can slow down your computer and therefore slow down your gaming experience, that's why you need to get rid them sooner than later. Why does this slow down game function? you might ask well if you have adware or spyware on your computer it might conflict with the components in the operating system causing your computer to work improperly such as longer start up times and crashing. Viruses can be the worst because they're made for the singular purpose of screwing up your system. So obviously they can sometimes be regarded as the worst thing to happen to your computer. Another reason why games might not run as smoothly with spyware and adware is because the software is using your ram and processing speed, imagine if you had 6 different programs running at once and then you play your PC game, chances are you would see a significant slowdown.
What do you do about these PC hazards? You get Spyware, Adware, and Antivirus programs.
Lavasoft makes a great free program, that will get rid of any ad posting programs on your computer.
Norton AntiVirus
is fairly cheap running you around 40 to 50 bucks and gets rid of all your viruses which can be the most important thing to running games. Finally
Webroot Spy Sweeper
is very cheap, about 25 bucks, and will get rid of most spyware. If you have the trio of protection you won't have to worry about unwanted nuisances cluttering up your computer and giving you gaming slow down and crashes.