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2. 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 ...

3. Does your computer slow down after a few hours? Here’s why

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   Reason #2: Your PC is running hot Your operating system can work overtime, causing your hardware to overheat. “As you use your system, it is constantly generating heat,” explains Roth.

4. 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 ...

5. Lag (video games) - Wikipedia

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   [citation needed] The lower one's ping is, the lower the latency is and the less lag the player will experience. High ping and low ping are commonly used terms in online gaming, where high ping refers to a ping that causes a severe amount of lag; while any level of ping may cause lag, severe lag is usually indicated by a ping of over 100 ms. [4]

6. Latency (engineering) - Wikipedia

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   Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed. Lag, as it is known in gaming circles, refers to the latency between the input to a simulation and the visual or auditory response, often occurring because of network delay in online games.

7. PathPing - Wikipedia

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   The advantages of PathPing over ping and traceroute are that each node is pinged as the result of a single command, and that the behavior of nodes is studied over an extended time period, rather than the default ping sample of four messages or default traceroute single route trace. The disadvantage is that it takes a total of 25 seconds per hop ...

8. Timeout (computing) - Wikipedia

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   In the Microsoft Windows and ReactOS [2] command-line interfaces, the timeout command pauses the command processor for the specified number of seconds. [3] [4] In POP connections, the server will usually close a client connection after a certain period of inactivity (the timeout period). This ensures that connections do not persist forever, if ...

9. Computer performance - Wikipedia

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   When it comes to high computer performance, one or more of the following factors might be involved: Short response time for a given piece of work. High throughput (rate of processing work tasks). Low utilization of computing resources. Fast (or highly compact) data compression and decompression. High availability of the computing system or ...