Why do computers become slow after a while, even after factory reset or hard disk formatting?
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Honestly a lot of it is perception. I have a feeling if you took a video of yourself doing something in windows 95 and then did that same task today (on the same system and all) it would be about the same amount if time.
However, when all the computers around us are faster and faster our perception of how long something should take changes.
There are comments about software bloat and all that, but I’m trying to relate this all to a fresh clean install on the same machine used previously.
Now there is degradation with time as well to components that also can slow things down. For example capacitors are a common point of failure in electronics and as those fail all sorts of things start happening including full shutdown and general slowing down.
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