Why do computers start to slow down over time?
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What people really don’t say in this thread is that these days software really doesn’t outpace hardware in anything other than memory. But memory, especially hard-disk memory becomes worse over time much faster.
As long as you have enough ram to run your programs, buy yourself a new SSD and reinstall the pc and it will run as if brand new. Unless you’re a gamer or do video manipulation you probably never used your computer’s hardware to the max, and Chrome/VLC/Office really didn’t get that much heavier to run in the last 10 years.
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