if your pc system keeps slowing down or freezing altogether,is it bad ram or somthing more sinister?

Answer 1

just to be safe do a virus scan, then defrag it, that should help.

Answer 2

Use Task Manager to identify the process that is slowing down your system. Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete and click on the Processes tab. Scroll down and look for a process where the numbers under the CPU column are very high (ignore System Idle). The do a Google search on the process name e.g. svchost.exe to find out what it does.

Freezing - this can be a number of things:-

Application hang - this is where a program is not responding. Usually your mouse pointer can still move around the screen but the program seems to have crashed.
System crash - this is where nothing responds i.e. the mouse does not move around the screen and keyboard strokes do nothing i.e. Ctrl + Alt + Delete does not work.

Check Event Viewer to see if it is recording any errors. Double click Administrative Tools in Control Panel and select Event Viewer. Go through each section and double click on any errors to see what information they provide.

Answer 3

Hello chris m,

This can be caused by several things. I will try to cover SOME of the most common one here.

1 - Spyware,malware,adware.
2 - Installs that have gone bad
3 - Uninstalls that didnt clean out ALL its tracks
4 - Some sort of P2P software or the likes running in background

With these, they are the most common issues of causing a PC to slow down. The main thing that I would do is get a Registry Cleaner here http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm and clean the registry out and reboot, if that doesnt work, scan for spyware, adware, malware here -- http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php

Good Luck

Answer 4

There are some programs that cause your PC to really grind to a halt.
Try checking in Task Manager (right click on the toolbar & select Task Manager) & look at the Processes tab. You can click on the CPU column to sort into ascending COU usage (click twice to see the highest usage at the top).
If you see things you do not expect or understand - try doing an internet search for them - they could belong to programs you legitimately have installed on your PC just getting greedy!
(Norton AV is a prime example of this!)

Answer 5

There are several reasons this can happen.
1. You have used up most of your hard drive.
2. You have too many programs running in the background.
3. You need to defragment your hard drive.

Download this free-to-try utility which will get your computer back up and running like it used to. It's free for a month. After that, you can still use it but it takes longer to load.

If you don't have much memory left, you can burn all of your pictures and documents to a cd/dvd then delete them. Another option is to uninstall programs you never use.
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Answer 6

As a general rule, many users think that they just cruse along wiyh computer use, and that is it.
The fact of the matter is that all computer users, (PC) need to have some form of Virus Protection, They also need to implament Anti Spyware, like Lavasofts Adaware, or Spybots Search and Destroy. You also need to open Internet Options and clean all the access Cookies, and Internet Storage files that slow computer performance down.
So users need to keep the junk cleaned out of there computers to keep them running smoothly.
Don

Answer 7

Could be something seriuos like overheating,

If you computer has been idle awhile restart and go into your bios and check the temperature and voltage(just look,dont touch).
Next time the computer freezes restart the computer and check things again,make sure theres no red wring near the voltage settings and check the cpus temp,60c is not alarming.
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Answer 8

one computer guy has answered the question for you and given good advice. Your computer needs a good clean up basically.. just follow the advice.. making sure you clean up all your history ie deleting cookies, history , first empty recycle bins.. then get rid of files that you don't need.. and scan disc.. defrag.... should be better then.

Answer 9

It's probably due 2 lack of maintenance. Run disk cleanup and defrag. Then scan and eliminate unnecessary software.

Answer 10

MS Windows os is the cause of your problem.
Change to Linux or get a Mac!
Don't put up with this sort of thing any longer!!!!