Well, do you remember the days, which you planned to buy the computers with good configurations, brand name, performances etc? Are you seeing any difference in your brand computer’s performance nowadays? Do you want to know the reasons and solutions for it? Well, this is the right place for it.I am a Certified Computer Technician. I am making myself to literate people about basic computer performance and maintenance knowledge.

I would be talking to you about four basic points that slow down your computer.

1. Signs of a computer slow down

You would have noticed your computer slowing down and it behaves too lazy. The foremost thing, which makes your computer slowdown, is loading of numerous programs in the taskbar during starting windows. Your task bar is located at the bottom right of your screen, and as the windows initialize, you will see items pop up in that tray. As system reaches your home as fresh piece, you may not have numerous applications to load at initializing. As time goes, we download lot of applications for our use such as Antivirus software, Google talk, torrents, etc and you commence to find unearthly appearing banner advertisements and pops when surfing the net, or perhaps even once your computer is merely posturing idle. It may denote to a kind of virus.

There exists more remaining usual symptoms, yet for the intent of this article; I sense that if you can induce care about this early signs and how to adjudicate them, then you will be well equipped going ahead.

2. Common causes of a computer slow down

Most of my Customer’s description is “My computer is very slow “; there are usually two causes.

Cause 1 - Too many programs installed and running

The foremost problem I notice is; people do not organize their systems. One thing to cognize directly is, mostly all programs you download and set up comes by default with a “Run on startup” option enabled, and meaning as soon as your computer loads entirely the programs that is downloaded and set up with this option ticked must load on startup. This is a very common cause to a computer slow down. Whenever you have a look at your taskbar, there are many applications running, some of which you do not recognize.

Cause 2 - Potential Virus or Spy ware problem

As previously mentioned, if your system sits idle simply and due to banner ads etc, it may be of Virus, spy ware attack. Most of the times when you visit legit sites, you may see a banner add saying, “punch the monkey and win” or something to that effect. Word of advice; “DO NOT PUNCH THE MONKEY”.

3. Easy Solution to a computer slow down

As similar of removing unwanted programs on taskbar using MSCONFIG, remove unwanted applications from system windows using control panel.

Incase of slowing down due to virus, use antivirus software virus removal and threats too. As a computer technician, I suggest you to take help from an online support technician who gives you technical support to remove threats.

4. How to avoid a computer slow down

Avoiding the troubles keyed out above are quite easy in reality. The first and most conspicuous solution to avoiding your computer slowing down is give attention to what internet sites you are browsing, what programs you are downloading and what you admit to install on your computer. Frequently, companies will play antics on you while setting up downloaded applications. An usual example of this is while you prefer to download “Adobe Flash” there is a small section on the install page inquiring you if you also want to install Google toolbar, and by default option it is chosen. For those people who simply click install regularly, this is a pure case of how excess applications arrive on your computer without your awareness.