Computer too slow?

If you have not had yet the experience of working on a PC that moves like a snail, you are a unique, rare human being.

Slow Computer Syndrome!!!

Computer can seem to go slow for many reasons. There are no magic tricks to speed up a slow computer. One must try to determine the nature of the slownes and what factors are causing it. Is it always slow, or just sometime?...Read more

Even the New York Times asked the same question a few days ago.

"The problem, it seems, is largely that Microsoft's past success and its bundling strategy have become a weakness."

David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School, also told New York Times reporters Steve Lohr and John Markoff that:

"Windows is now so big and onerous because of the size of its code base, the size of its ecosystem and its insistence on compatibility with the legacy hardware and software, that it just slows everything down..."

Windows PCs have had a long tradition of not managing well long and uninterrupted use across different applications, too many applications when installed and removed from a PC and a slew of processes and services running at all times inside your PC RAM memory but which maybe actually completely unneeded by your computer.

Your computer is indeed filled with hidden functions and services whose existence you may barely know.

Most of the times, such a large number of unnecessary background programs is likely to slow down your computer to a crawl without any valid reason or necessity to do so.

You probably have heard people telling you that you can speed up your computer by stopping unwanted services. But when you look at the list of services running, you are unsure of what to shut down and what not to.