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By Steve Horton |
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Perhaps you measure your laptop’s speed with a stopwatch before drawing a conclusion. More likely, you notice that photos or websites which used to open instantly and flawlessly now take too much time.
If you’re telling yourself, “This didn’t take so long before,” your laptop may, in fact, be slowing down.
What to do when this happens? Throwing away your old PC laptop and buying a new one doesn’t have to be your only choice. And if you’re like many users, no matter how inexpensive computers become, immediate replacement is not on your list of choices at all.
Fortunately, a slow computer is often not a death sentence for it: there are many reasons for the possible slowdown. Using easy-to-follow methods and software tools easily available, these problems are also easy to fix.
There’s an equal chance that slow response is the result of something you’ve done, or it may be the result of something Windows has done. You should account for the possibility that something innocuous, something circumstantial, or something malicious happened to make your laptop slow down.
The following guide might help you distill a few of the most common causes, and their most common remedies.
Among accidental causes:
Hardware slowdown or breakdown: No, you don’t have to open up your laptop, but it’s important to get possible hardware maladies out of the way first. This is especially true if your laptop, being a portable unit, has recently suffered a drop or a knock of nearly any kind.
Among suspicious causes:
Malware or Spyware: While the news is filled with them, yours doesn’t necessarily have to be the horror story. However, this is another possibility to get out of the way first.
Among the incidental causes:
Malfunctioning updates, including Windows Updates: Think back to the first moment you noticed your laptop running slowly. Was it after a particular update, either from third-party software that asked your permission, or from a series of recent Windows Updates?
In the end, there is something to be said for the latest and greatest. But there’s also nothing inevitable about obsolescence – generally, if your computer is less than five years old, you should be able to run most any current software.
If you make sure that you are methodical and organized about your fixes – if one method doesn’t work, moving on to the next – then you’re sure to eventually hit upon a solution. Good luck and happy hunting!
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