My Desk top is very slow

aayush

Hi can any one advise what is the reason behind the above as finding My Desk top very slow as not wish to put back to purchase have lots of files on it

sickofusernames

There's a sticky at the top of this forums or slow pc or laptops, try those first...

airborne_61

I have heard said that BT Fibre Optic Broadband Infinity is slowing down the other broadband is this true?

andy2004

reasons for a slow desktop:

to many processes / services running,
malware / trojans / virus's
antivirus software >old as in 2009 -2011 norton, mcafee, kaspersky
firewall software conflicting with the above.
not enough memory installed for the OS
windows xp can run in 256mb but runs smoother with 1gb minimum
windows 7 64bit wouldnt recommend anything under 4gb
windows 7 32bit 3gb, as 32bit wouldnt see more than 3gb
windows vista as xp
swap file set to big
low disc space on C drive.

These are just the first things i could think off of the top of my head.

aayush

Hi i have restored my pc to factory out let and an put the down loads required EG macfee and chrome and skpye but my pc is st till slow can any one advise y

macman

Since you will have a back up of your files (surely you do have this?), then doing a Factory Restore will simply involve reistalling any afternarket software and then copying your data back over.

aayush

well hve saved them on usb but still find Pc slow when trying to load Websites

imho

Would help if you put what computer you are using then techie guys will help you.Maybe you dont have enough Ram.

Figment

aayush wrote: »

well hve saved them on usb but still find Pc slow when trying to load Websites

If it's only slow when loading websites, the problem is likely to be with your internet connection, or possibly shortage of disk space.

If it's slow in general, then could be any number of things.

Start by telling us the make and full model number, and the edition of Windows it's using.

aayush

Figment wrote: »

If it's only slow when loading websites, the problem is likely to be with your internet connection, or possibly shortage of disk space.

If it's slow in general, then could be any number of things.

Start by telling us the make and full model number, and the edition of Windows it's using.

hi how do i find this information

aayush

i have a compaq intel pentn CPU 2180 @2.00 GHZ 2.gb mem windows vista