Why does my Windows XR computer start to slow down? My Windows XP computer is slow, what should I do? How viruses can be dangerous

Many Windows XP users have encountered a situation where the system begins to slow down some time after installation. This is very unpleasant, because just recently the computer was working at normal speed. But this trouble is not difficult to overcome when the reasons for its occurrence are known. We will consider them further.

There are several reasons why your computer starts to slow down. They can be related both to the hardware and to the operation of the operating system itself. It also happens when the cause of slow work is the influence of several factors at once. Therefore, in order to ensure normal performance of your computer, you need to have at least a general idea of ​​what can lead to slowdowns.

Reason 1: Overheating of the iron

Hardware problems are one of the common reasons why your computer slows down. In particular, this is caused by overheating motherboard, processor, or video card. Most common reason overheating - dust.

Dust is the main enemy of computer hardware. She's breaking normal work computer and may damage it.

To avoid this situation, it is necessary to clean the system unit from dust at least once every two to three months.

Laptops are even more likely to suffer from overheating. But in order to properly disassemble and reassemble a laptop, certain skills are required. Therefore, if you are not confident in your knowledge, it is better to entrust cleaning it from dust to a specialist. In addition, proper operation of the device requires that it be placed in such a way as to ensure proper ventilation of all its components.

But not only dust can cause overheating. Therefore, you need to periodically check the temperature of the processor and video card. If necessary, you need to change the thermal paste on the processor, check the contacts on the video card, or even replace these components if defects are detected.

Reason 2: System partition is full

Chapter hard drive on which the operating system is installed (by default this is drive C) must have enough free space for its normal operation. For file NTFS systems its volume must be at least 19% of the total capacity of the partition. Otherwise, the response time of the computer increases and the system startup takes much longer.

To check the availability of free space on the system partition, just open File Explorer by double-clicking the icon "My computer". Depending on the way information is presented in its window, data on the availability of free space on partitions may be displayed there differently. But they can be seen most clearly by opening the disk properties from context menu, which is called using RMB.

Here the required information is provided in both text and graphic form.

You can free up disk space different ways. The easiest way is to use the tools provided by the system. To do this you need:

For those who are not satisfied with system tools, you can use programs from third-party manufacturers to clean up space on drive C. Their advantage is that, along with the ability to clean up free space, they usually have a number of functions for optimizing the system.

Alternatively, you can also view the list installed programs, which are located by default in the path C:\Program Files and delete those that are not used.

One of the reasons why the C drive is full and the system slows down is the bad habit of many users to store their files on the desktop. The desktop is system folder and in addition to slowing down your work, you can lose your information if the system crashes. Therefore, it is recommended to store all your documents, images, audio and video recordings on drive D.

Reason 3: Hard drive fragmentation

Features of the work file system NTFS, used in Windows XP and later versions of Microsoft OS, is that over time, files on the hard drive begin to be split into many parts, which can be located in different sectors at a considerable distance from each other. Thus, in order to read the contents of a file, the OS must read all its parts one by one, making more revolutions of the hard disk than in the case when the file is represented by one fragment. This phenomenon is called fragmentation and can significantly slow down your computer.

To avoid system slowdown, it is necessary to periodically defragment the hard drive. As with freeing up space, the easiest way to do this is through system tools. To start the defragmentation process, you must:

Defragmentation is a very lengthy process, during which it is not recommended to use the computer. Therefore, it is optimal to run it at night.

As in the previous case, many users do not like the system defragmentation tool and use third-party ones software products. There are a great many of them. The choice depends only on personal preferences.

Reason 4: Garbage in the registry

The Windows registry has the unpleasant property of growing excessively over time. Erroneous keys and entire partitions left over from long-deleted applications accumulate there, and fragmentation appears. All this does not have the best effect on system performance. Therefore, it is necessary to periodically clean the registry.

It should immediately be noted that the system using Windows It is impossible to clean and optimize the registry in XP. You can only try to edit it manually, but to do this you need to know exactly what needs to be deleted. Let's say we need to completely get rid of traces of being in Microsoft system Office. To do this we do the following:

The scheme described above is very cumbersome and unacceptable for the vast majority of users. Therefore, there are many different utilities for cleaning and optimizing the registry created by third-party developers.

By regularly using one of these tools, you can ensure that the registry will never cause your computer to slow down.

Reason 5: Large startup list

Often the reason that Windows XP starts to run slowly is that the list of programs and services that should start at system startup is too large. Most of them are registered there during the installation of various applications and monitor the availability of updates, collect information about user preferences, or are even malicious software trying to steal your confidential information.

After prolonged use desktop computer or a Windows-based laptop, users may encounter a situation where the PC becomes very slow and runs slowly. There can be many reasons for a PC to slow down.

To understand in detail the problem of PC slowdown, we have prepared material in which we will consider in detail the methods and techniques that increase PC performance. By following our recommendations, you can return to its former performance desktop computer or laptop with Windows OS. By restoring the speed of your computer, you can enjoy various multimedia entertainment, computer games and work, while forgetting about the slowdown and various PC glitches.

Cleaning the system in Windows operating systems

The operating systems Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 have their own built-in system cleaning tools. The main disadvantage of such cleaning products is that they They only clean the trash, which the system itself creates, and even then, not all of it.

To execute complete system cleaning from garbage, where the OS and many programs will be cleaned, you need to use third-party software. One of best programs for cleaning is CCleaner. This utility is produced by Piriform LTD.

The utility is free and downloadable CCleaner on a PC from the official website www.piriform.com. The utility has been in use for several years first in the ranking from such well-known online publications as The Guardian, PC World, CHIP Online and many others. The utility works on the operating systems Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10. After installation, we will launch the utility on Windows 7.

To clean the system of debris, use the Analysis button located at the bottom of the window.

The image shows how much garbage the system found. This is the Explorer history when the user opens folders or copies folders. This is also the browser history and various garbage created by utilities.

After analysis remove garbage, which the utility found by clicking the Cleanup button.

Like this in a simple way You can increase the performance of the system and its programs. The utility's capabilities don't end there. The program can also delete unnecessary registry branches, which were created by various software. To take advantage of this opportunity we need to open the “ Registry"and, by analogy with the previous example, click the Search for problems button.

After the search, click the Fix button and thereby delete unnecessary registry entries.

The functionality of the utility is not limited to this, but its coverage does not fit into the topic of the article, so we will move on. Having finished cleaning the system and registry, it’s time to take on defragmentation, which we will discuss in the following examples.

Defragmentation in Windows operating systems

In operating systems Windows XP, Vista, as well as more new Windows 7, 8, 10 have their own built-in tools that allow you to do defragmentation. The only disadvantage of the built-in defragmenter in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 is its operating speed and weak functionality.

Therefore, it is better to use a defragmenter from third-party developers. The best defragmenter today is a free utility Defraggler. utility Defraggler developed by the same company as CCleaner Piriform LTD. Download Defraggler to the PC folder you can also from its official website www.piriform.com, like CCleaner.

Installing Defraggler is quite simple and comes down to a couple of clicks, so any PC user can handle it. Except Defraggler, there are many more high-quality defragmenters, but our choice fell on this one, as it will help us solve another problem due to which your PC can become very slow and run slowly.

Defraggler works with all current Windows operating systems from XP to Windows 10. Therefore, feel free to install and run it on any Windows. In our case, we ran Defraggler on Windows 7.

To start defragmentation, click the Defragmentation button at the bottom of the window. Next to this button there is a button that can start analyzing the disk for the need for defragmentation. After defragmentation starts, you can monitor it on the disk map.

This process can take a long time and depends on the disk size and the degree of disk fragmentation.

Utility Defraggler can defragment both the entire disk and individual folders and files. Its functionality does not end there. The utility can also:

• Do a quick defragmentation;
• Make the program work according to schedule;
• Defragment free disk space;
• Turn off the PC after defragmentation;
• Defragment the registry.

Of all the functions described, the last one is the most significant. Using registry defragmentation, you can also increase the performance of your desktop computer or laptop. To use this function, go to the menu " Settings» and activate defragmentation of the registry when starting the PC, as shown in the image.

By enabling this option, in your PC at system startup Defraggler will defragment the registry:

Now let's talk about the program's capabilities that we mentioned earlier. Defraggler can view the status of your hard drive, namely S.M.A.R.T..

S.M.A.R.T. is a built-in routine that can determine state of hard disk. Let's go to the " State».

The image above shows the parameters of a good hard drive. The following image shows a hard drive with bad sectors:

If this is exactly the situation you have, then the culprit in braking the system is Winchester. Based on this, The hard drive should be replaced with a new one. In addition, in this condition, the hard drive will not last long, and you may unexpectedly lose a lot important information. Probably all of it.

From the example it is clear that using Defraggler you can do:

• Disk defragmentation is long or fast;
• Registry defragmentation;
• Check the condition of the hard drive.

It is also worth noting that if you have an SDD disk type installed in your PC, then do not defragment it, as this may shorten its lifespan.

Solving RAM problems

Very often the culprit behind the PC slowing down and freezing is RAM. Operating systems from Windows 7 to Windows 10 have built-in memory checkers. For example, let’s run a tool to check the RAM for errors in Windows 10. To do this, use the search in the top ten and enter the phrase “ Memory Checker».

Now let's run the found utility.

In the window that opens, select the first item, after which the computer will reboot and RAM diagnostics will begin.

After a long check, the computer will boot and the user will be given the result of the check. If the test result is negative, this means that the RAM needs to be replaced with a new one.

Older operating systems such as Windows XP do not have a built-in memory check. It follows from this that on Windows XP, to check memory, you should use third party software. One of the most popular utilities can check your RAM. Memtest86.

Speeding up with ReadyBoost

Sometimes even all the steps taken to eliminate slowdowns and glitches in the PC do not help properly. This happens because your PC weak hardware. To solve this problem in OS, starting with Windows 7 and ending with Windows 10, the user has the opportunity to use technology ReadyBoost.

The essence of the technology ReadyBoost is to use fast USB drives for data caching. That is, using ReadyBoost, you can replace the default swap file on a screw, on a fast USB flash drive.

For example, we will use a PC with Windows 10 OS and a flash drive with the interface USB 3.0. You ask why exactly USB 3.0. The answer is simple, this interface very fast and is most suitable for our task. Let's insert the flash drive into the PC and go to it properties to the tab " ReadyBoost».

Now select the item in the window to speed up our system as shown in the image above and click the Apply button. The setup is done in the same way in Windows 7 and 8.

After these actions, the system should noticeably speed up, long startup times and slowdowns should disappear.

If you want to use the described technology on Windows XP, then use third party program eBoostr.

Other ways to speed up a desktop computer or laptop and remove the brakes

If the examples discussed above did not help, then the following methods will help solve the problem with brakes and glitches:

• Change antivirus program;
• Disable visual effects;
• Stopping unnecessary services;
• Reinstalling the operating system;
• Updating seven to ten.

If you have a good anti-virus program installed on your desktop computer or laptop, then on a modern PC you are reliably protected and this does not affect the performance of the system. But if you have a weak laptop or desktop computer, then it will be noticeable how the antivirus began to slow down the system greatly.

To correct this situation, Panda Security SL has developed an antivirus Panda Cloud Antivirus, which practically does not waste system resources on a weak PC. The secret of this antivirus is that everything complex operations in it are performed in the cloud.

In addition to antivirus, the performance of a weak laptop or desktop computer can be affected by OS visual effects. Since Vista, Windows has used various visual effects that slow down the PC. To disable visual effects, for example, in Windows 10, you need to go to system properties. To do this in the program Execute Let's type the command “sysdm.cpl”.

Going to system properties, open the tab “ Additionally" In the performance text block, click on the Options button.

A window should open before us where we can disable and enable visual effects in Windows 10.

Visual effects are configured in the same way in Windows 7 and 8. If we talk about Windows XP, then it makes no sense to disable its visual effects, since they already consume few resources.

You need to be careful when disabling services, as this may lead to incorrect operation of the operating system. To stop unnecessary services, for example, in Windows 7, you need to go to the snap-in responsible for services. To do this in the program Execute Let’s type the command “services.msc”. After execution, the snap-in “ Services».

In this snap-in you can disable any service. Before disabling an unnecessary service, make sure that disabling this service is absolutely safe for the system. For example, you can stop the service " Print Manager"if your PC is not using a printer.

Another way is complete system reinstallation. After Windows reinstallation you will immediately notice how fast your laptop or all-in-one PC works. This happens because the OS is new and has a clean registry and no garbage. In many cases, reinstalling the OS helps revive a laptop or desktop PC and get rid of the brakes.

In addition to reinstallation, there are times when a 7 user upgrades the system to Windows 7 and after that it works slowly. The slow operation of the system is due to the way updates are distributed and to the hardware. In the first case, the slow performance is due to a new type of update delivery in the P2P network. That is, updates come from user to user. In the second case, slow operation is associated with old hardware. In this case, only updating components or buying a new laptop will help.

Let's sum it up

We hope that all the material presented in the article will help our readers and you will not have any questions about why the PC began to slow down or why the laptop or all-in-one computer began to freeze. I would also like to give a couple of tips to our readers.

If you continue to experience slowdowns and freezes in your system, then malware may be the culprit of your problem. In this case, you should perform a full system scan for viruses and remove them from the found folder.

In addition, if you own a PC with Windows XP, then it’s time for you to think about changing the OS to a more secure one. XP support has ended a long time ago and new antiviruses have not supported it for a long time. This means that the system is very unsafe and if you give such a system access to the Internet, you may encounter real problems due to viruses. Due to viruses, you may encounter system slowdowns, as well as theft and damage of personal information.

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If you don't take care of your computer, sooner or later you'll have to answer a nasty question?

Replying to this question We will give 6 steps, following which regularly, you will forget what a slow computer is or a computer is slow.

To prevent overheating of components, it is necessary to regularly remove other contaminants. As a result of overheating, the protection mechanism is activated - throttling. As a result, performance decreases and the computer begins to think for a long time - slow down.

This is noticeable under load. Let's say you work in Word and then turn on the movie in high resolution or a game and the slowdowns begin. At the same time, you can hear a strong noise from them trying to blow air through the radiator fins clogged with dust.

Therefore, the first thing you need to do is look into your cooling system or cooling system at least once a year and clean it.

Before cleaning, be sure to unplug the power cord from the computer and remove it from the laptop.

It is also necessary to blow off dust. It is best to blow with an old vacuum cleaner, and do not suck, but rather blow. The effect is much better. You can watch and read how to clean your computer from dust.

More excellent option is to connect the drive to another computer with an updated antivirus and check everything. This is especially true if you can’t even log into . In this option, it is also possible that they are not deleted when the operating system is loaded, since at the time of treatment the infected files are in use and occupied by the operating system.

Step number two is to remove viruses, install an antivirus and update it daily.

Recovering system files

In short:

1. Launch the command line as administrator. and choose Command line(administrator).
2. We write sfc /scannow and press Enter.
3. We are waiting for completion.

If damaged system files were found and they were not restored, read carefully.

Cleaning your computer with Glary Utilites

The fourth step is to optimize your computer using Glary Utilities and similar programs. The program is an analogue, with which you can also do almost all of the steps below.

You can download the latest version of Glary Utilities from the official website http://www.glarysoft.com/

If you want to quickly clean the system, then go to the tab 1-Click. Click .

We wait until the program detects problems and click …

We are waiting for Glary Utilities to fix the problems.

In the window that opens, look through the entire list of programs, find unused ones, highlight and press them .

To make it easier to find unused programs, you can select Rarely used on the left side of the window.

Unnecessary programs have now been removed let's clean up startup. .

In the top table (Programs that run with Windows), we look through all the elements and uncheck those that should not load. For example . You can also turn off those that you don’t always use. These programs can be launched from a shortcut on the desktop or from

And the most interesting thing. Table Delayed launch programs. We have already speeded up the loading of the operating system using delayed startup. There we used the Task Scheduler. It is probably used here in the same way, but the interface is much more convenient.

For that, so that the program does not start immediately highlight it in the top table. Click Insert (the button between the tables). Double-click on the delay time (the default is 30 seconds) and set the desired one. In the picture above you can see how my loading is spread out over time. I'll probably return it. We need it right away. In order to remove the delayed launch of a program, select it in the table and click Cancel.

We have optimized autoloading (you can read more about autoloading).

Now, if you did 1-Click cleaning, then you don’t have to clean the disk. If not, then run it and then Disk Cleanup. I’ll show you with an example of cleaning the registry.

In the window that opens, click on the left Search for errors. We are waiting for the errors to be found. Click Fix the registry

Now it would be nice update remaining programs to the latest versions. Let's hope these latest versions will work faster and more stable. Click on the icon .

Below on the same page you can download beta versions of the programs. I don't usually do this. I download and install only normal versions.

For even more thorough cleaning, you can remove , Empty folders and Broken shortcuts. These points are located.

The fourth step turned out to be voluminous. Here we removed programs, optimized startup, updated outdated programs and fought with duplicates. The main part is done.

RAM and paging file

The fifth step is to have enough RAM in your computer. If there is not enough memory, then the system has to work with . The paging file, or , is a place on your drive in which data from RAM that is not in use at that moment is placed.

It's no secret that hard disk drives are the slowest device in our computers. And when using the swap file, the entire computer slows down. Therefore, there is only one recommendation, but leave the swap file. On the system disk, it is desirable that the paging file size be 200 MB. This will be enough to record memory minidumps. The latter are necessary for.

I'll tell you how I achieve a balance between visual effects and performance.

Call up the properties of your computer and select on the left side

In this article, we have provided 7 steps to improve the speed of your computer. The main points, it seems to me, are checking system files. Try to regularly follow at least part of these recommendations and your computer will not cease to please you.

Best regards, Anton Dyachenko

operating room Windows system XP is undemanding and works great both on hardware with minimal parameters and on modern, more powerful hardware. This is a product from Microsoft that has won the trust of billions of people around the world due to its reliability and simplicity.

But a time comes when certain problems appear and even Windows XP begins to malfunction.

Signs indicating ineffective operation of the OS:

• the system takes a long time to boot;
• programs stop responding or respond with a delay;
• At times, commands from the mouse and keyboard stop executing;
• the screen freezes.

Why does this happen, what factors provoke it, and what to do if Windows XP slows down your computer too much?

Main reasons

There is more than one reason why a computer may start to slow down and freeze. Sometimes it can even lead to individual problems for each computer. But first of all, it is necessary to consider the most common and important reasons that disrupt the normal operation of the system.

This is the first and most common reason why the system takes a long time to load and freezes. The longer you work with your PC, the more different programs you install on it. A considerable percentage of these programs are assigned to startup by default without the user’s knowledge.

Users are not so often interested in what exactly is in their startup and how much it takes up system resources. Most often, most of these applications do not make sense to run along with the operating system, since they are very rarely used or are never used at all and do not bring any benefit.

Dust

The second common reason when Windows XP slows down is dust accumulated in system unit. Dust constantly penetrates inside and falls on all components of the case. Cooling coolers are especially susceptible to contamination, which for this reason may no longer fully perform their function.

Without proper cooling, the hardware overheats, the overall performance of the processor decreases and, as a result, the operating system stops working efficiently.

Important! Dust accumulated in the case can cause overheating and completely damage the computer.

Viruses

Sometimes computer viruses can be a major factor in OS performance loss and cause many other problems.

How viruses can be dangerous:

Viruses seek to insert their malicious code into programs and disrupt their proper operation. They use computer resources, thereby reducing its performance.

Important! If you don't have an antivirus program, then most likely there are viruses on your PC.

Registry clutter

All parameters of installed programs created accounts and other changeable functions are recorded in the system registry. If certain programs or functions are subsequently deleted or changed incorrectly, all unnecessary entries continue to be in the database.

Gradually, thanks to such entries, the registry grows to enormous sizes, which slows down the speed of the OS when accessing the database.

Visual effects

Most attractive graphic effects, although pleasing to the user’s eye, also significantly load the processor, RAM and video card, thereby reducing the overall performance of the machine.

If your computer is weak and meets only the minimum or average OS requirements, you should consider disabling some visual effects.

Video: COMPUTER WORKS SLOWLY

Remedies

If Windows XP slows down for you and it becomes unbearable to work on your computer, do not rush to contact the service for help or remove the OS yourself. Repairing and setting up your computer can be expensive, and reinstalling the OS with all necessary programs takes a lot of time.

In almost any situation, there are solutions alternative to calling a service or reinstalling the operating system, which will save you nerves, money and time.

Autoload

To solve the problem with overflowing startup, you do not need to have special programs or special programming knowledge. Any user can figure it out.

All you need to do is launch “System Configuration” and remove markers from useless programs in the “Startup” tab.

Let's look at the procedure step by step:

Important! Do not disable autoloading of the antivirus and firewall, this increases the vulnerability of the machine.

Dust cleaning

Pay attention to the temperature of the processor, hard drive, motherboard and video cards, they should always be within normal limits.

There are two ways to find out the temperature:

• use "BIOS";
• use special utilities.

Let's consider the analysis of machine overheating through "BIOS»:

This tab contains information about the current temperature hardware, cooler rotation speed and other information.

You can also use one of the following utilities to analyze the components of the machine:

You can choose any of them, they do the job equally well.

Permissible temperature:

1. processor – 40-50 °C;
2. video card – 60-65 °C;
3. motherboard – 25-35 °C;
4. hard drive – 35-40 °C.

If the temperature of one or another component of the machine exceeds the permissible norm, it is necessary to check whether it is time to clean the inside of the case from dust.

A vacuum cleaner with an air flow function and a toothbrush are suitable for removing dust.

Let's start cleaning:

Important! Pay attention to the amount of thermal paste under the cooler, add it if necessary.

Be sure to install one of the antiviruses on your computer; this will not only protect your data, but also increase the performance of the OS.

You can find many antiviruses on the Internet, differing both in price and in the degree of effectiveness of protection against malicious software.

Let's look at the best paid options that the market offers today:

• Kaspersky Internet Security;
• Norton 360;
• Avast! Internet Security;
• ESET NOD32 Smart Security;
• Dr.Web Security Space.

To decide which antivirus is right for you, you can go to the official websites of the manufacturers and read all the conditions.

The best free antivirus utilities:

• 360 Internet Security;
• Panda Free Antivirus;
• Avast Free Antivirus;
• AVG Antivirus Free;
• ComodoInternetSecurityPremium.

Each of these utilities has its own pros and cons, the choice is yours.

We treat viruses:

1. Using the antivirus of your choice, run the scanner to scan the entire amount of data;
2. Remove or quarantine all detected threats, depending on the antivirus recommendations.

Tip: Configure your firewall to only work with trusted utilities that use the Internet.

Cleaning the registry

To clean the registry, you cannot do without specialized software.

The best free utilities for working with the registry:

• CCleaner;
• Vit Registry Fix;
• WindowsCleaner;
• RegistryLife.

The interface of these utilities is very simple; you only need to click a few buttons to optimize and clean up unnecessary registry entries.

Tip: To feel the difference before and after cleaning, restart your computer.

Setting up visual effects

To improve PC performance, adjust visual effects.

Let's look at how to disable graphic design options:

Increasing the paging file After rebooting the PC, the changes will take effect.

Windows XP slows down after updating

When loading Windows XP after updating, you may find that your PC is not stable. To fix this problem, you can use System Restore.

Troubleshooting after an update:

This method will allow you to roll back the OS to an earlier stable state.

As you can see, it's unstable Windows work XP may be caused by more than one factor, but they all have their own simple solution. You can use these methods yourself and troubleshoot any problems that arise.

Sometimes your computer suddenly starts running slowly or freezes for unknown reasons. To figure out what's wrong, diagnose and fix the problem, you can resort to several procedures. In this article we will look at what to do if the computer slows down and freezes, typical causes of malfunctions and describe ways to solve them.

Reason #1: A running process or service

Typically, a slow computer is caused by an unstable/memory-consuming process. Running applications can be seen in the Windows Task Manager, but the standard manager does not show some of them.
To see all processes, it is better to use special program. We will consider best app for this - Anvir. With its help, you can find the process that is slowing down your computer.

Download Anvir from the official website

After installing and running the program, you will need to:

To understand in detail what each process is, you can right-click on it and select two options:

Based on the information received, you can decide what to do with the running process, leave it or stop it.
In addition, running services can also cause your computer to freeze. To view them you will need:

As with processes, you can find information about services on the Internet or check for viruses. After deactivation unnecessary applications You will need to restart your PC.

Reason #2. Startup programs

The system startup contains a list of applications that start after the OS starts. To speed up the system and prevent your PC from freezing, you can try to remove everything unnecessary from there.
For Windows 7 and its predecessors will need to do the following:

In Windows 10, startup settings can be found in the task manager, which opens by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Delete and selecting the appropriate line.

Reason #3. Lack of free space

Sometimes the computer freezes due to a lack of free . This is usually partition C. To view information about available memory you will need:

Reason #4. Viruses

It is also possible that your computer is freezing due to a virus. To clean the system you can use

Reason #5. Overheat

Sometimes the computer freezes due to heating of individual parts. To check their temperature, you can use Speccy program
Install the utility and run it. You will see the temperature of your computer components. If any device exceeds the temperature of 70-80 degrees, while the computer is not busy with any activities, That this oh not normal .
You will need to check and fix the cooling system of the component that is heating up.

Reason #6. System unit contamination

It also sometimes happens that the computer slows down and freezes due to dust in the system unit. Clean it using a vacuum cleaner and a brush. Turn off the computer and blow it with a stream of air. After this, you can check all the cord connection contacts if necessary, reconnect them.

Reason #7. RAM

Often, unstable operation can cause your computer to freeze. You can check it using standard application Windows.

Before turning on the PC again, a memory test will begin, after which the OS will boot and notify you of the results with a pop-up window in the Windows system tray.
If errors are found, you can clean the contacts connecting the RAM to motherboard and repeat the test. If this does not help, then you will need to replace it with a new one.
In conclusion, it must be said that first check the temperature of the computer components and then move on to the software. Good luck.