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What Causes Computers to Slow Down?
Home » Computers » Speeding Up a Slow Computer » What Causes Computers to Slow Down?If you have a computer that was lightening quick at one point but now is running slower than usual, this could be the result of several things. You could have spyware on your system. You could also have adware or a virus of some kind on your PC. Other reasons might be that your files are disorganized, or that you have software installed on your system that is consuming resources unnecessarily. Your PC could be using network drives that are slow to start up, or you could have drives that are not even used at all but are involved in the boot up process, or you could simply have way too many programs starting up automatically when you boot your computer.
One thing that many technicians have found when troubleshooting hard drives that run slow is the hard drive is in bad need of defragging. When a hard drive is fragmented this means that all the files on the hard drive are scattered all over the place. This slows down system performance and causes the programs to take longer to load and run. This is because when the program loads, the read/write head of the hard drive has to look for the section on the hard drive for all the pieces of the program that goes together. When a hard drive is defragmented, this forces all the programs that are on the hard drive to be placed in sequence so they can be found and loaded quickly.
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