What would cause my computer to run slow?

[Brian D]

Your computer might have lots of programs running. Viruses spyware might be an issue. download a free program called CCLEANER and install it run it. It will remove a lot of the cached files stored from the internet pages you have visited. Keep in mind if you use auto complete on some websites this program has been known to empty those fields so just make sure you know all your user name and passwords and you will be okay with that. After that I would run defrag assuming its a windows pc. most times its located in the system tools folder. you will need to select the drive to defragment in most cases it will be drive (C this could take awhile to complete if you haven't done it before so be patient. Now lets just say if your computer itself is fine everything works quickly on it and you find the internet itself slow. Well assuming you have high speed dsl or cable. try to shut down your computer. Then unplug the power from the dsl or cable modem wait 60sec plug it back in. Then restart your computer. Deleting the prefetch files not a bad idea too. More info on your system would be better help to us ie What OS you use. Mac, Windows ver? then what build 98,2000,XP,Vista,Win7 anyway so many causes out there so good luck