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You can take it a step further and look through the “services” list but many of theses are required to run windows and should not be adjusted unless you know exactly what they are. There are a few other reasons why your computer is running slow like spyware/virus infections but always try the software route before you upgrade your hardware it could save you a lot of money. If your problem persists then give us a call or follow the spyware/virus removal to rule that out.
Most of the time this is caused by software rather than hardware, it was working ok last week or
last mouth so why not now? When your computer starts it does more than you see, in the background
lots of programs are prepared for when you might use them, most of them you probably won’t.
In slide one below you can see several icons of which three/four can be turned off (there are still more
Hiding) to free up resources And to do this we need to use a tool called “msconfig”. First click start,
click run, and type in “msconfig” (without the quote marks) then press ok. This will bring up a box
similar to slide 2 (this is windows 7 but it will look roughly the same). Click the startup tab and look
Through the list some will make sense and some won’t but you can do a search for the name in google
To tell which are which, you must leave certain ones on like you antivirus (AVG in this case).
