Besides bugs, what else makes computers run very slowly?

Answer 1

Many factors contribute to slowness:

make/model of machine
amount of RAM
lack of free space on drives
amount of fragmentation on drives
too many fonts loaded (don't unload system fonts, though!!!!!!)
overloaded registry with bad/old entries
spyware/adware
too small of a paging file

tons more I can't think of off the top of my head

Answer 2

If your virus/spyware free, there are a couple things you can do get your computer working faster. If you using your computer for normal stuff and not gaming. You don't always need more RAM you just need to perform a few maintenance task.

First, if you haven't cleaned your registry in a while. This is necessary. Your registry holds all the information regarding updates, installs, un-installs etc. Each one of those events produces a key. That key needs your PC's resources and free space. So, if you clean your registry, you make more resources available for speed. Do a registry scan if you got more than 20 errors you should clean it.
http://www.delete-computer-history.com/what-is-the-best-registry-cleaner.html

2. Clear your Windows cache files, this is your temporary file. It can grow up to a large volume and stop your computer from using RAM properly. In a sense slow it down by preventing it from using free space.Here is how:

1. Quit Internet Explorer, Firefox, or any other web browser
2. Click Start, click "Control Panel", and then double-click "Internet Options".
3. On the General tab, click "Delete Files" under Temporary Internet Files.
4. In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the "Delete all offline content" check box , and then click OK.
5. Click OK.

3. Manage your startups. Your excess CPU usage is due to too many programs running in the background. You can cut these to barebones by alter your msconfig. Here is how:

1. Open your Start menu.
2. Click Run
3. In the command screen type "msconfig.exe"
4. In the "system configuration utility",click either "service" or "startup" tab
5. Uncheck all programs that your are no longer using.
6. Click "OK"

Other great tip is increasing your virtual memory to simulate more RAM. This will give you a bit more resources for multiple program use or CPU heavy programs.
Hope this link helps. Shows you how to do everything step by step. You should get a least 60-120% more resources and speed
if you follow the tips.

Answer 3

Guinea chickens will consume ticks and are sturdy to maintain interior the backyard/acreage in the event that they're allowed and you will stand their noise and habit of roosting on proper of the abode or interior the bushes all evening, the only element i understand is that bugs are area of the nutrition chain, interestingly some thing eats them yet no longer speedy adequate to verify me. My grandmother used a feather and kerosene to maintain the bedbugs at bay, she might wipe it for the period of the floor boards and between the wood boards on the partitions. That might desire to have smelled outstanding. She additionally positioned the legs of the beds in some thing to maintain the scorpions from crawling up into the mattress, it would have been kerosene, i do no longer remember the full tale. She lived for the period of the melancholy in rural Kansas and Oklahoma. whilst i became turning out to be up on the farm we by no skill heard of lice or bedbugs (even however we performed the pastime Cootie), interestingly the DDT that we dusted around stored them away.

Answer 4

The way you Set up your Anti virus Software If you set it for slower checks it uses less memory Nortan bad about slow down it not the software but the updates sometimes are made
not work well on because new system requirements for the updates

Answer 5

What everyone else above says and a harddrive 75% full or more. To chech hit my computer then right click your hard drive and hit properties. if it is full you need to defragment it.

Answer 6

Games and Graphics grind your PC to a halt.

Answer 7

Spyware, Adware, too many processes running, drive not defraged.

Answer 8

Old computers with new operating systems... See it all the time....

Answer 9

Trojans, spyware, viruses, low RAM, low memory, overheated internals.... That's most of it.

Answer 10

Not enough memory.