What is the computer slowing down from?

Sooner or later, any computer starts to work unstable, long to boot, often to hang, that is - to brake. There are four main reasons that the computer slows down: psychological, mechanical, system and software.

If you consider the braking and suspending of the computer from a psychological point of view, it often seems that the launch of certain applications could go faster, especially if they are important to the user. When the computer is new, the user has nothing to compare his performance with. However, over time, experience accumulates with it, the duration of the start of the operating system and frequently used applications is stored in memory. In the software product market, new software appears, requiring a greater resource of the computer system (increase in RAM, processor power, etc.). Often the processor does not pull these innovations. This is where the wrong sense of the user is hiding, that the computer began to slow down.

In order not to waste time on testing, cleaning and maintenance of a computer, it is worth remembering how long it took the operating system to load, under what conditions and how the work of certain programs and applications was hanging. Perhaps the machine works like a new one, but what a computer slows down is just an illusion.

For mechanical reasons that began to slow down the computer, it is necessary to attribute the failure of these or other components, poor contact in the connections due to their oxidation, overheating of the processor due to drying of the thermal paste, damaging the closure of the electrical circuit with conductive debris, accumulated dust and moisture on the maternal Board or other electronic devices, the peripheral equipment does not function properly. The situation can be rectified by eliminating these reasons, that is: replace the faulty device, check the wires and contacts, slightly twitching for them, replace the thermal paste, blow the inside of the system unit with compressed air and inspect it for metal debris.

To systemic causes of what the computer slows down, it is necessary to attribute incorrect operation of the operating system and hardware drivers, lack of hard disk space, a clogged system registry.

The operation of the operating system and drivers can be disrupted by the damaging effects of malware and viruses. At best, errors in the system can be corrected by downloading and installing software updates. In the worst case, you will need to perform a system restore and reinstall the drivers.

A computer's hard drive can also affect the performance of your computer. For the normal operation of a modern system, it is recommended to have 10-15 GB of free disk space on the hard drive, without taking into account the swap file and the recycle bin. To optimize the performance of the hard disk, you need to periodically clean it up and defragment the files.

You can free up the hard disk by uninstalling unused programs, cleaning the Recycle Bin, transferring data to other media, erasing the system folders and the registry. You can free the folder located at C: \ windows \ prefetch. It stores links to previously opened applications.

To clean the system registry, you can use special programs, such as CCleaner. It is possible to correct the registry yourself. To do this, type regedit in the "Run" line. To eliminate accidental errors when working with the registry, you should make a backup copy.

After a thorough cleaning of the hard drive, you should defragment the files on it. This feature will allow you to win additional disk space and speed up the hard drive by optimizing the location of files.

The software cause of what the computer slows down is the effect of malicious programs and applications running in the background . If the computer does not have a good antivirus installed, then most likely the computer hangs due to viruses. It is worth knowing that some powerful antiviruses can also slightly slow down the system.

Programs running in the background consume a certain amount of RAM and load the processor. The more such programs, the more they load the system. They are usually started automatically. Therefore, to remove them from startup, you should type msconfig in the "Run" line and uncheck the unused programs.