{"id":116,"date":"2013-06-26T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karlstechnology.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2013-06-26T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:24:41","slug":"computerproblem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karlstechnology.com\/blog\/computerproblem\/","title":{"rendered":"SLOW COMPUTER \u2013 The # 1 COMPUTER PROBLEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What contributes to a computer\u2019s performance loss?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, every technology user should be aware of a computer\u2019s limitations with regards to the amount of storage space, RAM as well as processing power &amp; speed. The more programs you have installed on your computer and the more documents, graphics, pictures, music, videos and toolbars you have saved on your system, the slower your computer will become eventually. Additionally, useless temporary files, cookies and data (e.g. from web browsing and unexpected computer restarts) can accumulate on your system and degrade your computer\u2019s performance gradually. This unnecessary debris takes up precious drive space and needlessly overburdens and exhausts your systems processing load. Low hard drive space, insufficient memory storage and\/or deficient processing power to perform your desired actions can also lead to software crashes and cause your system to slow down considerably.<\/p>\n<p>During a computer\u2019s startup process certain indispensable programs are required to start and run automatically. However, there are plenty of applications which, by default, launch at start-up automatically and run needlessly in the background. Combined with the desired programs and applications you have started up yourself, there are likely too many services running at once, further contributing to your computer\u2019s performance loss. Every program uses a small amount of processing power, even if it is merely running in the background. Hence, it takes significantly longer for your computer to start up when it is attempting to load many different apps simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Another possible reason for a sluggish computer performance is the fragmentation (\u2018messiness\u2019) of your system\u2019s hard drive. When creating and saving new files on a computer, they are written onto the surface of the computer\u2019s hard drive <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">in no particular order<\/span> and in a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">fragmented<\/span> configuration. Instead of saving a file as a single unit, it is split up into several units and stored across various locations on the hard drive. Over time users create, save and delete more and more files, thereby steadily amplifying the fragmented nature of the computer\u2019s hard drive. The process of gathering the scattered pieces demands increasingly more time and overtaxes the computer\u2019s resources. Consequently, the computer\u2019s responsiveness slows down. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0What can help? &#8211;&gt; <b>Defragmentation<\/b> software!<\/p>\n<p>A computer system\u2019s painfully slow performance may also indicate the presence of malicious security threats on your computer. Be sure to check out our previous blog post which covers the most common and dangerous types of security threats!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.karlstechnology.com\/blog\/computersecurityissues\/\">http:\/\/www.karlstechnology.com\/blog\/computersecurityissues\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Karls Technology Computer Repair<\/b> will perform regular maintenance on your computer system to sustain the speed and responsiveness of your computer! Don&#8217;t be a victim of the # 1 computer problem. 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