Why is My Computer So Slow?
There are many reasons that can cause your computer and the Internet to be slow or appear to be slow. Following are some things you can do to insure your computer or cordless telephone is not causing the Internet to appear slow. Adware and Spyware can slow down your computer and Internet connection. Remove all Adware and Spyware from your computer. Click here for more information. Temporarily disable all firewall and anti-virus software and see if things speed up. If you have a 900 MHz or greater telephone near your computer, try moving the telephone away to see if the problem is resolved. These phones can cause the broadband to experience intermittent loss of connection. Perform a speed test. If you have a 768k connection your results should approximately be 660-700 kbps. If you have a 512k broadband connection your speed test results should be around 440-460 kbps. If your broadband connection is 256k you can expect to get speeds around 210-230 kbps.
Remember when you first took you new computer out of the box and everything worked so well and was so fast? And now, months or years later, all these nagging errors, pop-ups, and lockups keep happening. And everything is so slooooooowwwwwww…… What happened? This is probably the most common problem we see in our shop today. One of the problems is caused by installing/uninstalling programs. Sometimes, one program conflicts with another. When you try to remove it, some of the fragments remain in your Windows registry and can cause problems. More commonly these days are the villains lurking out there on the World Wide Web. Viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, malware, browser helper objects, malicious scripts, etc. I won’t get into a detailed discussion here of what each one of these things is and what they do. The important thing for the average home computer user to know is that they are all bad and are probably causing one or more of the problems listed above. Most, if not all of them are
