Whether you use your laptop as a glorified Netflix machine or you’re running a side hustle out of Notion, most computer users are all-too-familiar with the spinning wheel of doom. On Macs, it’s that ...

New computer operating at a snail's pace? Get it up to speed again. (Photo: Getty) When you’re stuck with a sluggish computer that struggles to start up or stream a video, it’s tempting to just ...

Computers slow down for any number of reasons, but most of those boil down to one thing – us using them. As you download programs, install extensions, surf the web, create files, and fill your hard ...

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You purchased a brand new computer; hyperthreaded i5 or i7 with a clock speed of 2.9 GHz quad core, a whole 8 GB RAM and 500 GB hard disk. In the initial months, your ...

If you’ve used a computer for a fairly long period of time then there’s a good chance that you’ve felt it getting slower over time. If you’re using it on a fairly regular basis, it’s going to feel ...

It runs 2x as fast off my new firewire 400 external HDD than its own internal HDD.<BR><BR>--<BR><BR>It hasn't finished half of the infinite loop yet.<BR><BR>It takes longer to save my LOGO code than ...

“My computer is so slow” has to be the number one computer complaint ever. If I’ve heard that complaint once, I’ve heard it a thousand times. Care must be taken, though, to distinguish between slow ...

Okay. Here's the entire situation. I normally work on a Dual Celeron 433 box. Well, the Hard Disk decides to croak. So its on its way back to IBM as I type. However, for about a week, I was without ...