It is possible for a computer to slow down over time simply because it gets older but the amount aging slows a computer is generally speaking, negligible. Still, computers becoming slow make up a large part of my computer repair workload.
In this article, we will talk about the things that frequently play a part in helping a computer’s speed deteriorate and what we can do to prevent this from happening.
The Resources
Basically, a computer consists of a motherboard, a CPU and RAM. The inherent ratings of these parts are what will determine how fast the computer will be right out of the box. Of course, if we put a greater demand on our PC by installing more hardware or even software into it, we may have to upgrade it by installing more RAM so we will not lose speed. However, if we haven’t made any extravagant changes to the PC and it still slows down, we have to look elsewhere for our problem.
What Steals a Computer’s Resources?
When a computer is suffering from poor performance and slow speed, you can bet there is something that has entered into our computer and is working inside without our approval and is taking our computer’s speed away.
Some types of malware is what very often will steal a significant amount of our computer’s resources and make it next to impossible to use. Malware means malicious software and can be anything we normally associate with viruses or spyware.
Actually, it is not really all that important to know exactly what kinds of malware, be they viruses or spyware, have infected your computer. However, using a good spyware cleaner regularly is important. There are cleaner software programs that take care of cleaning out both spyware and viruses from your computer. So, you don’t need to deal with separate virus and spyware cleaners. However, you do need to clean out all parasites or you may end up having your computer shut down on you and you may have your identity stolen all at the same time!
About the Computer Registry
Also, don’t forget the importance of keeping your PC’s registry clean! The computer’s registry starts to build up corruption from the first day it is run. Normal use will cause meaningless and unhelpful entries to become logged in an operating system’s registry. These types of entries are what are known as registry corruption and they need to be removed on a regular basis with a good registry cleaner. If they are not, they will cause your computer to lose some or all of its speed.
There are other things a PC owner can check when he or she is dealing with a slow computer. Here’s one: look in the system tray. This area of the computer screen is located in the lower right hand corner. If you find any icons there, right click them and look for the option to close the programs these icons represent. If doing so gets some of your computer’s speed back, you’ll know one of these corresponding programs was stealing resources from the PC.
Still, it is most important to make sure you are free from spyware, viruses and registry corruption. If you do, your computer will likely continue to race down the information highway like it did the first day you used it.
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