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  2. 5 reasons why your computer could be running slow - AOL

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    To check this on a Windows computer, click your Start button and then — depending on your operating system — go to My Computer, Computer or This PC. After selecting your main disk, you can see ...

  3. Why is my computer so slow? - AOL

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    Running multiple resource-intensive applications simultaneously can slow down your computer. Disk fragmentation: Over time, files on your hard drive may become fragmented, meaning they're stored ...

  4. Chromium (web browser) - Wikipedia

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    Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google. [3] It is a widely-used codebase, providing the vast majority of code for Google Chrome and many other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Samsung Internet, and Opera.

  5. Why is my brand new computer so slow? Here are the 5 top ...

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    Click into your task manager to see a list of all the programs running on your PC, then disable the unnecessary ones from launching at startup. The specs are too low

  6. svchost.exe - Wikipedia

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    Svchost.exe (Service Host, or SvcHost) is a system process that can host one or more Windows services in the Windows NT family of operating systems. [1] Svchost is essential in the implementation of shared service processes, where a number of services can share a process in order to reduce resource consumption.

  7. Computer multitasking - Wikipedia

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    In the early days of computing, CPU time was expensive, and peripherals were very slow. When the computer ran a program that needed access to a peripheral, the central processing unit (CPU) would have to stop executing program instructions while the peripheral processed the data. This was usually very inefficient.

  8. Google Chrome sucks — here’s why you should stop using it

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    And here are my reasons why. The RAM Chrome uses is insane. Chrome is a memory beast. Unless your PC has 8 GB of RAM or hopefully a solid processor, it will hate Chrome. I’ve seen games that don ...

  9. Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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    Maximum PC gave Windows 7 a rating of 9 out of 10 and called Windows 7 a "massive leap forward" in usability and security, and praised the new Taskbar as "worth the price of admission alone." [178] PC World called Windows 7 a "worthy successor" to Windows XP and said that speed benchmarks showed Windows 7 to be slightly faster than Windows ...