How can you fix an operating system slowdown?

If your OS is on C: drive and the C: drive is running close to 100% all the time then that will slow down response times of your PC by a huge amount as some thing is using C drive at 100%. You need to find out what it is and stop it by doing the following - 1) Press <CTRL> <ALT> <Del> keys at the same time. 2) Find Task Manager and click on it. 3) {Process Tab} find Disk coloum 4) Click on the word disk to find process/s using the disk a lot. 5) Look at that process name in the {Process Tab} and <click> on it to make turn light blue. 6) Press [End Task] button in Task Manager That will kill that process = stopping high disk usage = PC runs at normal speed with normal response times. But this is just a temp fix.

Restart your system ! Jokes aside, I can see that majority of it covered here. Can we also include regular temperature checks for the hardware.

While this is true, to give this advice to someone who doesn’t understand computers, could lead to complete failure rather than finding the issue.

First of all check for unnecessary and memory hogging startup programs and services and shut them down. check for any virus or malware infections and clear it. check your HDD if it requires defragmentation or disk cleanup. check for hardware issue or system heating issue. keep your os up to date with latest os updates and security patches from the os vendor. last but not least check your working application's requirement and upgrade the hardware accordingly.

Malwarebytes: A popular tool that detects and removes malware, adware, and potentially unwanted programs. AdwCleaner: Targets and removes stuff. HitmanPro: A second-opinion scanner that works alongside your existing antivirus to catch anything that might have been missed. Look for programs: Windows: Go to Control Panel > Programs and Features and scan the list of installed programs. Mac: Check the Applications folder. Check browser. Chrome: Go to Menu > More Tools > Extensions. Firefox: Go to Menu > Add-ons > Extensions. Safari: Go to Safari > Preferences > Extensions. Use tools like Windows Resource Monitor or Little Snitch for Mac to monitor network activity. Look for unfamiliar processes that are using the internet.

Limpeza de disco é bem útil, existe lentid?o muitas vezes ocasionado por disco cheio, realizar a desfragmenta??o de disco pode salvar o desempenho de um computador. Para isso é ideal a verifica??o do uso do sistema, se a Memoria, Disco ou Processador(CPU) está constantemente em 100%

é importante a realiza??o do gerenciamento dos itens de inicializa??o, um patch, um auto update que esteja habilitado na inicializa??o, pode realizar um gargalo muito grande, tanto no inicio do sistema, quanto no processamento. Desative a inicializa??o de softwares desnecessários.

Manter os drivers em dia é ideal para o funcionamento e COMPATIBILIDADES, o principal causador de erros de drivers é a compatibilidade dele, principalmente em sistemas que est?o em constante atualiza??o.

Normalmente pasa con los discos duros HDD, la mejor opción es actualizando el disco duro, usando mejor un SSD, es una buena inversión, ya que ofrecen buenas velocidades de transferencia de datos,

All the above is system (memory, storage, network, configurations, etc.) level tunings - which is important and should precede any next level optimizations. The real word is much more than it. It has been always possible to make things even better. That deploys a deep and systematic approaches to identify where and why.