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Your Computer may be slow and erratic as a result of a single or many reasons, but chiefly, the main causes
of such malperformance, though not an exhaustive list, are as follows:
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These are malicious programs that in the least write themselves to the operating system registry
(that is your computers wake up routine), in effect, every time you switch on the computer, the
program re-arms itself and continues to cause havoc.
Believe it or not, when you do not perform routine housekeeping on your computer, it can make it
lethargic. Cookies need to be deleted often, (a cookie is a description of you and your habit as analysed
by a website you visit, some cookies can be useful, but most are simply there to track your habits
thereby making you a soft target for advertisements). Imagine having your computer carry for eternity,
cookies from websites you would never return to, or websites you just don't visit anymore. In the same
vein, computers temporary folders need to be purged too, the internet temporary folder for example
might have in them information about obsolete websites one had visited years ago. The final piece of the
housekeeping jigsaw is 'hard drive defragmentation' (the hard drive is where your data and operating
system software live). To try and explain this clearer, consider this synonym, imagine you live in a three
bedroom house where you have the jackets of your suits in one room, the pants in another, and your
shirt and shoes in the third room. Everytime you need to go out in your suit, you would have to
perambulate between the three rooms to be completely attired. What you are doing is exactly what
happens when a hard drive is fragmented. The head of the hard drive has to jump back and forth to
fetch information that could easily be in the same location by defragmenting. Fragmentation makes a hard
drive work harder not smarter.
Let me explain to you briefly the function of the RAM or memory before I go any further. The memory
(RAM) on a computer is like a post office. Parcels, Packages and letters arrive at a post office
for processing before onward transmission to their final destination, in exactly the same way, data
(information) arrives at the memory (RAM) for onward transmission to their final destination, which
could be the screen you are watching right now.
Now let's explain how insufficient memory (or small post office) can cause your system to act slow.
When your computer has insufficient memory and you fire up a number of applications, the little memory
quickly becomes full and there is requirement for more memory to enable all the applications run. The
central processing unit (this is where instructions from your operating system are processed) becomes
clever and borrows an area on the hard drive to use as memory so all the applications can run
simultaneously. This area on the hard drive is termed 'pagefile'. This phenomenon is commonly referred
to as Virtual Memory. The size of the pagefile is usually controlled dynamically by the operating system
except you choose to do otherwise. With a computer that has little memory, it is more likely that you would
need a much bigger space on the hard drive to use as pagefile. Whenever there is a request for the
information in pagefile (on your hard drive), the central processing unit gets clever again and quickly
swaps it with that on the real memory at the time. This swapping of information between the real memory
and hard drive is referred to as thrashing. This effect makes a computer extremely slow.
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