Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Have you ever had an impression that your computer has been running slower and slower?
When I bought my computer exactly two years ago the performance of this machine during first few months was absolutely brilliant and no problems at all. But after a few months this fast and reliable machine started becoming slower and slower and more and more unwanted applications started working when I was switching on my laptop without my personal attention.
At that time I did not understand how the computers are working and how little I can control what is going on inside the operating system. This is not only problem of PC and Windows users, Apple products have the same issue from my Mac experience.
I am sure that I am not the only one who suffers from this problem and would like to hear your voice on this discussion. What are your ways of dealing with this issue? Every voice most welcome for our common benefits
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler on
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Dear God! I cannot believe this discussion has to take place in the year 2012. If you have a computer (ie a PC or laptop) then you almost certainly have an internet connection. Why waste time on Harringay Online asking unimaginably dumb questions when all you need to do is go to Google and ask the question, which will turn up 50 websites offering advice. Computers slow down because as time goes by they get full of _crap_, either bits of software that aren't needed or loads of redundant data that slows down the hard drive.
I started using computers (main-frame) in 1969, by the way. I also went online in 1994. This may explain my impatience.
By the way, the main-frame I was using at my university had a RAM of 64k. When it was upgraded to 96k joy was unconfined among the computer-using community. Ah, happy days!
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Permalink Reply by Marek on
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Hundred and hundred users are not treating their computers with a very deep level of understanding and they are lost when smallest problems starts.
Searching Google does not become the fist option in case of problems of not advanced and experienced computer users. This discussion could help somebody and become irritating for somebody with you experience.
This is rather showing that something in friendly environment could be explained in very simple way
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I ask here, Mr Fowler, because, as said above, online " experts " say that a slow computer will be cured by defragging and wiping cookies. I may be unimaginably dumb but I trust Marek's advice rather than a bunch of nerds who never read the question anyway. And - he is polite with it.
I started on computers in 1962 on an IBM 1401 with 4k memory and am still learning. There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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I started on computers in 1962 on an IBM 1401 with 4k memory
Oh you lucky, lucky, bastard!* What I'd have given to work in 1962 with a powerhouse of such colossal specification. They must have thought you were the cats whiskers.
When I went online it was the Telegraph. In my day, I started work daily before dawn on a Hollerith punched card machine with 2 bytes of memory. For the census of 1890.
*with apologies to Life of Brian.
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Actually, there are both dumb questions and dumb answers. For example, if you are standing in the sunshine and you look up at a cloudless sky, and you say "Are there any clouds?", that would be a dumb question. Questions-answers, garbage-in - garbage-out.
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