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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. 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

4. 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.

5. Commit charge - Wikipedia

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   Similar displays in the Task Manager of Windows Vista and later have been changed to reflect usage of physical memory. In Task Manager's "Processes" display, each process's contribution to the "total commit charge" is shown in the "VM size" column in Windows XP and Server 2003. The same value is labeled "Commit size" in Windows Vista and later ...

6. Thrashing (computer science) - Wikipedia

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   In computer science, thrashing occurs in a system with virtual memory when a computer's real storage resources are overcommitted, leading to a constant state of paging and page faults, slowing most application-level processing. [1] This causes the performance of the computer to degrade or even collapse. The situation can continue indefinitely ...

7. Job control (computing) - Wikipedia

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   The result, particularly for interactive systems running tasks that frequently interact with the outside world, is that the system is sluggish and slow to react in a timely manner. This problem is resolved by allocating a "timeslice" to each process, a period of uninterrupted execution after which the scheduler automatically puts it on the ...