It is quite natural for a computer to start failing performance wise after certain duration of time period. The exact reason for which is not known, but we can fairly point out some of the reasons because of which the PC has started slowing down. In this article we shall be looking into some of the common causes for PC slow down and remedial measures to fix them up.
Access the task manager of your OS, by pressing Alt + Ctrl + Delete button and under the process tab you will find the currently running processes. These processes maybe confusing to a novice computer user, but still you must be able to recognize most of the processes. After all it was you who had installed all those junk and you should be having a good idea about the softwares which are being installed on your personal PC. An ideal Windows XP installation should be having less than 20 processes in the default installation. Soon after you start installing various required and non required softwares in your PC, additional processes will be listed on the task manager. You have to realize that these processes take up extra RAM usage and hence the PC becomes sluggish.
The remedial measure? Uninstall all the junk softwares which are present in the computer. Because with un-installation you will be able to find that these processes are lowered because the program files are deleted. Cute, is it not? Now here is an scenario. You uninstall the programs, yet this process tab is still filled with processes. Now the situation just became grim and you can be rest assured that your PC has been infected by a virus or spyware software. Such malicious programs are designed such that once they are given access to a computer; it will keep on creating junk files and processes.
These files and processes will keep on taking memory cycles of your PC. And hence the PC will start slowing down. You need to invest on good antivirus and antispyware software so that these malicious products can be removed from the PC safely as well as effectively. Now there are various such programs available in the market, which one would you choose? Tough, eh? Well the answer lies on the internet itself. Read through various performance reviews of various antivirus softwares and reach to a conclusion by yourself.
A good antivirus software acts in such a manner that the malicious programs are removed from the computer and future infections are also inhibited. There are some antivirus solutions which in turn make the PC sluggish. Why is this? Such softwares are designed to keep on checking for viral infections at all the times, when they are not doing it they access the files present in the PC and verifies whether such files are infected or not. This process can take up huge memory. It is better to invest on a product which reduces the memory usage as well is effective on the viruses.
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