What to do if the laptop is slow

Life is incomplete without computer in the technology dependent world. But now laptops are more popular for easy portability.

Life is incomplete without computer in the technology dependent world. But now laptops are more popular for easy portability.

Laptop is slow

During the pandemic, many people have bought new laptops for online classes and home office. Many have used the old one. The laptop is getting slow at work.


Laptops accumulate a lot of temp files and literally dust after long periods of use. As components get older and software updates or upgrades, laptops can become slow. Apart from this, your laptop can become slow due to various reasons.

But you can speed up your slow laptop in some very simple ways. Know the ways-


✪ Do not open multiple tabs at once. Keep only the necessary taps in front. Because of this, many times the laptop can become slow.

✪ Unused apps occupy hard drive storage. which consumes resources from the CPU. So, free up space by deleting junk and speed up your computer by increasing processing power.


✪ Everything running in the background and unused program resources slows down your computer's boot-up speed. Go to the Task Manager in Windows 10, look at startup to see which programs start as soon as your computer starts up.


✪ Scan for malware regularly. Maybe some malicious and suspicious software that you didn't install voluntarily is slowing down your laptop. Regular virus and malware scans will protect your laptop from such dangerous things.


✪ A few hardware changes can be made to make the laptop faster. One of them is the addition of solid state drivers. It makes everything faster; Booting, shutting down, launching programs is instant compared to traditional hard drives.

✪ Always keep the laptop clean. Excessive dust accumulation increases the risk of overheating. Overheating will put extra stress on the processor and graphics card. Collect a can of compressed air and clean each vent to let the processor and graphics card breathe.

 

✪ Many people do not empty the recycle bin. But it can slow down the laptop. Empty the recycle bin occasionally. You can also use Shift + Delete command and by doing this you can delete your file permanently.


Monirul Islam

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