Had my computer about 4 or 5 years but finding its really slow. Takes an age to come on and often find the screen freezes quite often.Anything i can do myself to try and get it up to speed so to speak?
Depends on make / model of computer. Most have a hidden factory restore partition. I'd personally restore to this and start again. Make sure you back up all your documents, pictures and emails / addresses onto DVD or external drive, then restore (with re-format). then install Chrome, Microsoft Security Essentials (Antivirus) and then any other apps you use. I'd also uninstall any crap / trial products that came with the computer. You will also need to spend an hour or so running through all the windows updates that have come out since your computer was made.
I dont think Patrick Cryne would come on here and give you advice on your computer; I'm not sure if he even reads this board these days. In fact, he's not in the computer trade anymore, he got out of that a few years ago when he sold his shares...
Mac's suffer exactly the same problem, although given that you can't do as much on them it tends to take longer before you notice the sluggishness.
Hilarious. I've been using a MacBook for work for years. Had to go back to a PC laptop in my current job and if I had the choice I would never go near a PC for as long as I live. Macs are vastly superior is every way that I've experienced. PCs seem to find new error messages on a weekly basis that I'd never previously imagined could exist. Terrible machines and I'm still baffled as to how Microsoft became so successful in the first place with products of such poor performance.
The simplest advice is really ,Simple buy another PC, and no I am not being sarcastic either. You will find that you will buy a new PC for less than what you paid for the one you have now, AND it will be massively superior. Do not go on the high street to buy. Just get a new base unit, you have a monitor a mouse and a keyboard.You cabn get abrand spanker as cheap as chips nowadays.
I've jumped between the two since the mid-90's and still have a Macbook Pro from about 2006ish (one of the first intel ones anyway) and I just find a Windows PC works a lot better as an all round computer, Macs are getting better but (for the stuff I do) there's no way I could rely on a Mac as my only computer - obviously with Boot Camp it will but I don't think that's the argument here.
