My Pc Is Slow
Why Is My Pc Slow?
So what causes your PC to run slow? There can be many causes. Too many to name them all, but there are some primary causes. Chances are you are affected by one or more of these right now. A few primary causes of a slow PC will be addressed below.
Spyware and Adware
Far too common a problem
Unless you know how to avoid it and/or combat it, you probably have it on your computer. If you do know about it and scan for it, if you haven’t scanned in a while, you probably have something new on your PC. Just about every PC has something that fits this category running on the PC, eating up resources, or worse yet, spying on your activity, collecting data from you.
Overloaded with to many programs loading during startup
When a computer is overloaded with too many programs trying to run at startup, the performance of the PC suffers noticeably. Putting a stop to programs loading into memory at startup is one of the most effective ways to tune up your PC.
How does the PC load programs at startup?
There are several main areas where programs are loaded into memory when you turn on your Pc. The most obvious place is the Startup Program group in the Start menu, which you can see easily. Beyond that is the registry. The Registry is usually the main place where programs load at startup. This is one reason registry cleaners are so popular.
Look at it like this.
Your car has one battery to start it and and it works fine. But what if you had 4 other cars hooked to your battery with cables and they would all start fine when they were started one at a time. What happens when you try to start them all at the same time?
The bottom line is you only have so much memory in the PC. Unloading as much as possible from memory gives the PC room to work and frees up resources to work more efficiently.
Not Enough Memory or Ram
You only have so much memory in your computer. When you use it all up, the computer starts using your hard drive as virtual memory, hard drives run much slower the speed of actual memory. The good news is, you can add more memory.