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Why is my computer/internet running so slow and how do I fix this?

  • Why is my computer running so slow and how do I fix this? Over the last two days, I have noticed that my computer/internet is running very slow. It takes much more time to load a web page and it often freezes for around a minute. I have tried defragging/cleaning up my hardrive, scanning for viruses and deleting stuff such as history and large files but nothing has worked.

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    I have listed the most obvious reasons why a computer may be running slow, some of which you may have already tried but for completeness they are mentioned here. As a reminder, if you are using a laptop it will be running slower on the battery as opposed to running on the mains power. First of all make sure you do not have any viruses or spyware. Run your anti virus and anti spyware programs in order to clear out any beasts. Spyware is becoming more and more of a problem because some spyware is extremely difficult to identify and even more difficult to remove. If you do not have any protection these applications are exceptional and available for free download: Anti spyware: http://www.superantispyware.com/ http://filehippo.com/download_spybot_search_destroy/ Anti virus: http://www.avast.com http://www.avira.com Remove junk & temporary Internet files that may be cluttering your system by running Ccleaner – free for download from: http://filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ You may have too many programs kicking off at start up. These two free downloads allow you to easily take control what applications run at start up. The applications are not deleted they are just prevented from running at start up. http://www.glarysoft.com/quick-startup http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml Your hard disk may be getting full. You need at least 15% of free space for it to operate efficiently. Go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs & remove any applications you no longer use. How about removing a lot of the videos, music and photos that are filling up your hard drive? Your hard disk(s) may be fragmented. Windows has a built in defragmentation program but you can download a quicker third party program for free: http://www.auslogics.com/en/software Your registry may be cluttered or corrupt. Ccleaner mentioned earlier also has a registry cleaner and so I have linked it again but how about downloading another very good free registry cleaner: http://www.eusing.com http://filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ http://www.free-windows-registry-cleaner.com/ Finally, after you have done all the above may need to upgrade your computers memory. Normally Windows XP is quite happy with 1GB but for Windows Vista I suggest upgrading to 2GB to get equivalent speed and efficiency. In order that you get the right type of RAM for your system do a free scan at Crucial to determine your RAM. http://www.crucial.com/ for USA http://www.crucial.com/uk/ for UK Now that you have attempted to improve performance what about some maintenance to hopefully prevent overheating? Clean all the vents on your computer with an air duster (can of compressed air). If a laptop, operate it on a hard surface so that air can flow freely around it. For a desktop, open it up and clean inside with the air duster. Good luck with your quest and I hope these suggestions improve your system. wdw

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First off, defragging your computer will do nothing about slow processing. check this out- www.ccleaner.com

kaytee

Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some regsitry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow". Everytime you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Regisry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically! There are some comparison and review of TOP 5 registry cleaners. http://www.make-pc-fast.com/ You can download and scan your computer for free.

Hot

Go to Start -> Run Type msconfig and hit enter. Go to the Services and Startup tabs. These two tabs will tell you the applications that are running in the background on your computer. These apps start when you turn on the machine and are consuming CPU and memory resources, so uncheck all the unnecessary programs and they won't start the next time you reboot.

Sarah Grissom

if your computer suddenly decided to run slow even when you've done all the right things with virus scan and defrag the one thing you've missed out is a spyware scan you can get a good free anti spy ware scanner from AVG here http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-spyware/us/frt/0 install it update it then run it

Bomber

Check out http://www.pcoptimizerprodownload.info With pc optimizer pro you can safely clean, repair and optimize your computer. It will help improve your system performance. Good luck!

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If there are too many programs installed, such as games, it could slow down the system. By fixing it, you can delete games/other.

vivipoison

If your internet just suddenly got slower, you may have used up your monthly bytes, they get reset at the end of the month.

Sraldleif

Ask where you got your Internet,,,

GodFather

Buy more RAM for your computer, defrag delete files you dont use Buy a new computer... Check Task administator... too.

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