The answer to: "Why is my computer so slow?"
Your PC calculates millions of equations and algorithms in split seconds. The more information that it needs to process, the longer you have to wait for the results.
The plain and simple answer to why your PC seems slows down so much is that it’s overloaded! It can only handle so many things at once before it cannot operate within it’s optimal performance threshold; the computers ability to do multiple tasks at one time becomes more than it can handle efficiently.
Reasons why your Computer slows down the longer you own it
The longer you have your computer, the more you want to do with it. This usually means installing games and applications, downloading music and movies, editing photos and so on.
There are a few things that happen when you use your PC for things like this:
You use up hard drive space and fragment your hard drive. This basically means that your hard drive has to sort through large areas of data scattered all over which compounds into taking longer to retrieve information.
You use up memory (RAM) that gets allocated to other programs. This is a common problem many PC users have.
You may have installed incompatible or poorly written software at one point that is causing problems.
The solution to: "How do I make my computer faster?"
Many of your problems can be fixed in MINUTES. The number one problem I still find in slow computers to this day is that there are too many startup items loading when the PC boots up. An optimized PC should have no more than a few programs starting when the PC starts.
Most people do not realize this, but most viruses, malware, and spyware can only be activated by loading on startup. If a virus is not loaded on startup, it is nothing more than a useless chunk of data on your hard drive.
Just think, if you had 10 startup items loading when you boot your computer how much faster your computer would be if you prevented 7 unnecessary items from loading! Depending on the size of the program, you could save 1-10 minutes every time you start your computer up!
Some programs like Anti-Virus must load when you boot your PC up. These programs can use a lot of system resources, but without them the risks out-weigh the benefits.
If you are interested in optimizing your PC, one of the first things you will want to do is turn off startup items using the system configuration utility. I will talk about this more in furuter posts.
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