If you have the money to spend, then taking your computer to a specialist when it becomes slow is a good option. But not everyone has spare money available and the only option they have is to try and fix it themselves. So if this is the case, what is the first step? Well, there is a good possibility that the error has something to do with the registry. This is the  number one cause of slow computers but they can be fixed quite easily. If you download a free registry repair tool and use it to fix your registry, it should speed up your computer quite a lot.