Author Nik: EdLathrop
Name: Ed Lathrop
It is, of course, wise to have a top rated anti-virus program installed on your computer. The reason for this is obvious. A virus can kill your computer; plain and simply. Fortunately, it is next to impossible to run a computer that is not protected against viruses when it uses Windows XP or Windows Vista. This is because these OSs constantly warn you when you dont have an anti-virus program active.
Someone whose computer had been slowing down to the point of exasperation called me at my repair shop and asked me for my advice. Right away I had to inquire as to whether or not she had been making use of a virus cleaner.
No computer problem is more annoying than having a crash right in the middle of an operation. Second to that would be to have a sluggish or even downright slow computer. If these problems sound at all too familiar to you, you’ve come to the right place. Lets see if we can determine what the problem with your problem computer is.
A person called me up to tell me her computer was running very slowly. The first thing I asked her was if she had a virus scanner installed on her computer and if she had been using it.
There are many things that can get into our computer and cause problems. There are other things that cause problems that dont actually enter into our computers from outside sources. These problems are sort of computer self-inflicted wounds. Often computers lose speed and performance due to either the wrong things entering our computers, or those self inflicted wounds. This article examines all these computer speed and performance enemies, including one that often goes overlooked.
Registry corruption has become one of the biggest problems a computer owner has to overcome on a daily basis in order to keep his/her PC running at top speed. As well as slowing down a computer, sometimes to an unbearable degree, registry corruption also has the ability to cause a computer to stall, freeze up and suffer a blue screen failure. Unfortunately, it is possible for such a failure to be fatal.
When people bring me their computers for repair, there is one problem that motivates them to bring it to my shop more than any other. It is the computer is running slow. Maybe the computer has other problems, but the running slowly part bothers them the most.
When people bring me their computers for repair, there is one problem that motivates them to bring it to my shop more than any other. It is the computer is running slow. Maybe the computer has other problems, but the running slowly part bothers them the most.
Many times, a computer will slow down, sometimes aggravatingly so only to find there were incidents of malware to blame. Other times, a computer will lose speed because there was corruption in the registry. These are common problems and usually running a spyware/virus cleaner and registry cleaner respectively will solve the problem. However, what happens when neither of these things is to blame for the slow running computer?
Being in the business of repairing computers, I find there is one question I get asked far more than any other. It is, \”why is my computer running so slow?\” A slow computer seems to cause more aggravation to the computer owner than any other problem.