Causes Of a Slow PC

December 11, 2008 Computer Safety Tip

Your computer is continually working with files – moving, copying and deleting – it will eventually get messy with leftover files, some of which are not needed and just take up disk space. There is only a certain amount of disk space available on your hard disk, and as it fills up the computer can begin to fight to find room to perform its tasks.
f your PC freezes up or crashes, it may be a symptom of a slow or cluttered PC.The Processor is the brain of your computer, maybe the processor is too slow to run today’s challenging software. By running multiple programs at once, e.g. typing in Word while downloading music can also cause the processor to struggle.
RAM is the temporary memory the computer uses to do its calculations. If there is not enough RAM, your programs will run slowly.The Graphics Card can contribute to poor performance when it comes to running media and games software. Drivers are needed by some hardware programs, which have to be kept up to date.
There may also be programs running in the background using up memory, in some cases, the problem may be a malicioius program such as a virus or spyware.