why is my computer so slow?

Answer 1

• running out of hard drive space/memory
• too many applications running at once
• virus
• slow Internet connection

http://www.compumatics.us/misc/slowcomputer.htm

Answer 2

Go to Webroot.Com and purchase Spysweeper. Clean your system of all spyware. Then you should run some utilities that will defrag the drives and tuneup the registry. I use System Suite for this. Beyond that you can add RAM, increase your harddrive space or just reload Windows.

Answer 3

Go here to find out how to speed up your computer:

http://www.helpero.com/Questions-and-answers/Computers/Windows/How-do-i-optimize-speed-up-windows_715.html

Helpero is a web site that helps every Internet user, from all over the world, solve any computer related problem. You can ask Helpero for free.

Answer 4

Hello dear
Your hard PC is too heavy so discard unnecessary files and folders go to Accessory then system tools to clean up and defragment drives .
update your anti virus and scan it to virus and worms or Trojans If you do these works and your PC is slow refresh your OS (windows) Reinstall it or upgrade it again .
Good luck

Answer 5

there a number of reasons.

U cud b running to many applications in the background

low harddisk space

a virus cud also slow yo machine down

Answer 6

plz edit this post and jot down ure stats......however possible causes could be
a hard drive with very little free space left
increase your RAM (atleast 512)
to many processes running under your username(see task manager-> processes)

Answer 7

You probably don't have much RAM available for other programs to use. It could also be spyware as well.