Answer To why does my computer run slow – Speed up your system!
If your computer is just a year old and your asking ‘why does my computer run slow’, you probably have some errors or slow setting in your system. If your last resort is reformatting and reinstalling a fresh operating system, you can twix your settings a little bit to help speed up your system.
If your folder or My computer windows takes time to load, you can try disabling automatic search for networks. Open an Explorer Window, go to Tools> Folder Options. Uncheck the setting that says ‘automatically search for network folders and printer’.
If you decided to uninstall a few programs but you add/remove programs applet is also taking ages to load, you can download and run CCleaner. The Ccleaner program provides a quicker way to delete temporary files and uninstall applications.
To speed up closing of unresponsive programs, you go to regedit. Look for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ and change the value to 1000.