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This problem can be caused by any of the below possibilities.
- HDD is short on available disk space
- Many software programs have been installed/uninstalled leaving behind bad files and/or confusing the Software.
- The Data maybe corrupted.
- Computer(that is your processor) is overheating.
- Bad Hardware.
These are some steps for Microsoft Windows that should help speed up the computer or determine why the computer is running slow.
- Verify that there is always sufficient free hard disk space. This available space allows the computer to have room for the swap file to increase in size as well as room for temporary files.
- Run Scandisk or something equivalent to help ensure that there is nothing physically wrong with the computer hard disk drive.
- Run Defrag to help ensure that data is arranged in the best possible order.
- Remove or disable any TSRs or programs that automatically start each time the computer boots.
- Verify that the device manager has no conflicts, but if conflicts are present, resolve them.
- If you are using Microsoft Windows 95 Windows 98 and do not plan on running any MS-DOS programs from MS-DOS, click Start / Run / type command and press enter. In the MS-DOS window type cd to get to C:> then type “ren autoexec.bat autoexec.ch” and “ren config.sys config.ch”. This will rename your autoexec.bat and config.sys and help make sure memory is being optimized through Windows.
- If you have Windows XP try deleting all files in the prefetch directory. These are prefetch files and can lower sytem resources if loading programs no longer being used.
- Try running through the basic troubleshooting steps for your operating system. Make sure your computer and processor is not overheating, excessive heat can cause a significant decrease in computer performance some processors will even lower the speed of the processor automatically to help compensate for the heat related issues.
- Scan for viruses , your pc might be infected
- Finally, if none of the above solutions resolve your issues, it is recommended that you either reinstall Windows or erase everything and then start over.
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