Why do computers become slow after a while, even after factory reset or hard disk formatting?
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I assume you are asking mostly Windows
1. Hardware: if you have a classic HDD(not ssd) these have a portion of disk not exposed to the user where they can move sectors which are going have higher access time and since this will move the arm of the reader back and forth access time increases hence slower
(2).Windows: windows has a centralised place to hold all settings named registry which can get really big, garbled with orphaned shit which are not in use. It will be fragmented in time no matter what MS says that modern os does. Of course on ssd fragmentation is not an issue.
3. Software developers: qa doesn’t give mostly shit about how much resources a shitty piece of software takes since it is compliant to requirements. Nobody cares nowadays of optimization. They will just tell you that minjimum requirements are higher. Try to use open source software.
4. Internet applications: just fire up a wireshark session, open a single web page and look at how many “providers” you get. That’s all about round trip time to maaaany providers. Or call them sites.
5. Obviously all the “security” software that you install on Windows nowadays are a big burdain to any system. I’m watching sometimes windows defender take 48% of proc and some 23 mb/s of HDD(volume). For an… Undetermined amount of time.
That’s where you are nowadays. You can install a friendly distribution of Linux easier than windows nowadays on older laptops and they will perform. There are even Windows friendly dist of Linux like Mint that will work very fine for a Windows aficionado.
One friend of mine installed Mint for his 70+ parents and they are very happy.
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