People’s Pc’s can be slow for a number of reasons. One of the huge culprits, guilty of this problem are computer viruses. Things like Computer viruses, worms and spyware are designed to maliciously attach themselves to you computer and destroy your computer system.

This always causes your Pc to slow down and even struggle to open and close. Scanning for viruses and such can help you to keep your PC faster and safer. Its a well known fact that these viruses are sometimes designed to steal prsonal information.

Pc’s are also usually slow when they start to run low on memory or when you’re using a program that’s requirements aren’t met by your PC. Example 1: You download a brand new video game. This video game uses lots of memory, and requires a higher bit card then you’ve got. if your memory is really low, you Pc starts to lag. If you don’t have the requirements the game needs, your computer struggles to work harder to provide them.

Last but not least, by using your computer a lot, a lot of unnecessary files build up on your computer. For Example, when you download online files, they usually come with extras, not actually needed by your computer.These take up your system’s memory and clog it up. Even old files you no longer use clog up your system as well, like old un-used games, Word files, or music / videos. So, don’t forget to occasionally reboot your computer system to keep it clean and happy.

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 I will answer this question for Windows users. For those who don’t have windows I give the advice to do the similar things but in any case you have to look how this is done on Linux or MacOs (or whatever).

There are two main cases of slowness: The pc itself is slow or the internet connection is slow. The best thing to find out, if your pc itself is slow, you should download a benchmark test program. You can find many of them on a common search engine (e.g. google or yahoo).

Just type in the search terms benchmark test download and you will find a lot tools and description how you can test if the benchmark output is correllant to you machine. But in most cases it is not your computer that is not fast enough, but the internet connection.

To check this, try the following points. It could be, that your neighbours are surfing together with you, but you don’t know it. Things like that happen, if you have a wireless connection between your router and your computer. To be sure, that this can’t happen anymore, login into your router (he has normally an IP-Adress by itself) and make your internet connection keyword safe.

Best thing to choose is RSA at the moment. To set that, you normally have to directly connect a cable to your router. The next thing is to check all the tasks running in the near of the clock. There are many things, that need to “call at home” permanently. So ask yourself: Do I know this program? Do I need this program?

Another important thing is the system update of windows. If you like to make your computer only in the standby mode, the system can get more and more unsecure. So always drive your system down or manually check, if all updates are always installed.

Very important is a virus checker that is always updated. Antivir is not the best one, but its for free and its better than nothing. Another point are all the places windows has to start programs automatically. Get from sysinternals the autostart checker and put everything away there what you don’t know.

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