Slow

Slow

If the computer acts slower than before, it’s clogged with too many programs or too much data. Here are three possible reasons:

1. The hard disk is nearly full.
2. You have too many programs running in the RAM simultaneously.
3. You’ve left the computer on for too many hours, so fragments of programs you ran and abandoned are still in the RAM (because Windows and DOS are imperfect at erasing them from RAM).

Cure:

Shut down the computer, then turn it back on. That usually makes the computer faster (since you’ve eliminated cause #3).

If the computer is still too slow, do the software-cleaning procedure, which helps eliminate causes #1 and #2.