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Part one of a three part series on computer repair focuses on computer slowness.
What’s Making My Computer Slow Down?
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What does it mean when your computer is slow? Let’s start with the simple stuff first. If you haven’t rebooted your computer in a long time, it might be a good idea to either shut your computer down, wait approximately 60 seconds and power it up again, or do a simple restart of your system. Why does this work sometimes?
One of the most common causes of computer slowness is if you have any programs or processes running in the background. For example, if your antivirus software is running a scan in the background, this can slow your computer down considerably. To see what’s running, as well as what system resources such as memory or processor usage, open the Task manager on your computer. If you’re on Windows 7 or higher, use Resmon instead to get a better understanding of how your computer is using resources. Sometimes though, your computer could be slowing down for a hardware related issue.
Computer Slowness and Hard Drive Space
If you’re starting to run low on disk space, this can also have an effect on your computer speed. You want at least 200-500MB of free hard drive space. You want to have enough room to allow your swap file as well as any temporary files to be able to increase in size. The easiest way to check this is to right click on your hard drive, and select Properties. If you have more than enough space on your hard drive, you may want to check to make sure that there aren’t any bad sectors or fragmentation. However, there are also other causes of computer slowness from hardware conflicts to malware.
If you have tried the simple fixes and you’re still having a problem, you want to get your computer into a computer repair shop as soon as you can.
This concludes part one of our series. For more information on computer repair and computer problems, be sure to read part two and part three as well.
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62 N Stapley Dr.
Mesa, AZ 85203
480-834-1318
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