Ultimate Guide to Fix the most common Computer Problems

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Problems ranging from a slow computer system, slow internet speed and a restarting computer system; these all help make our computer life a bit hectic any day. These issues may arise due to certain hardware clogging together or absence of a particular driver altogether.

The ultimate first aid you need to carry out when determining the problem facing your computer system is to run a troubleshoot of the computer. Before you troubleshoot your computer, endeavour to first reboot/restart it – you will be surprised at how much problems rebooting a computer system solves.

Some of the other features we should look out for in our computer system after reboot include: –

• Make sure that the Operating system is up to date as sometimes, problems may arise due to the use of an old version of the OS. You can carry out the update in a matter of minutes.

• Make sure that the WindowsSystem Update feature is updated too and active as it helps to remove bugs thereby improving the computer performance.

• Try turning off and on again any peripheral device (eg USB sticks, thumb that’ss) that’s misbehaving or switching it to a new USB port altogether.

• Delete unneeded files such as movies, photos and videos or perhaps move them to another folder altogether, you are not going to miss them at all compared to when your entire computer system crashes.

• Use a program like Visipics to remove duplicated images or files which are occupying large spaces in the computer.

• Uninstall entirely programs you are not using anymore or perhaps some big files like games et al.
• You can also check out our guide to partitioning your computer system.

Having many processes running in the background may prove to be the ultimate cause of having a slow computer – because of the computing power they require and the RAM.

Try eliminating some of the processes by going to the “Startup tab” like in the image above. Now, you don’t want to uncheck any process that is not a Microsoft process. Look out for names like – Google update, AdobeAAMUpdater, Spotify etc. Uncheck these ones and check the next result after rebooting.

Having a Slow Internet

This is another computer problem altogether. When you feel like downloading, browsing, streaming a giving program or event and its taking long time to load. All you have to do is to check if the slowness is network-related or not before you proceed further.

You can check your network speed by visiting Speedtest.net and running a speed test to check if you are getting the required internet speed possible.

Minimum internet speeds are usually 50% of the required internet speed but if yours do not correspond to that figure then something is hogging your bandwidth, try doing the following:- 

Read Also: – Amazing Tips to Increase your Computer Speed

• Check to see that there are no torrent clients running in the background. Most of them minimise to the tray or task bar and continue downloading and uploading files leading to a reduction in bandwidth.

• Another resultant cause might be your network card drivers being out of date. It’s very much appropriate to update your Operating System now.

• Next now is to try turning your modem Off/On or unplugging it entirely and then plugging it back.

Conclusion

Those were quite simple troubleshooting computer problems any newbie would carry out conveniently without much stress. Are you not skilled enough to undertake the above strategies? endeavour to check out a professional.

Youtube videos are another place to consult as they relate specifically to your problem. Should you encounter any difficulty with the above steps or the technician you consulted? feel free to reach out to us using the comments section

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