I know this sort of complaint arises on an all too regular basis but I hope you won't yawn as I raise it again to see if there are any new solutions.
My wife has a custom built PC which runs on Windows 10. The PC is about 3 years old and is used for sending and receiving numerous emails, browsing the web, on line banking, watching iPlayer and that's about all. The HD has plenty of free space and though I cannot remember the amount of memory I am sure it is more than adequate.
The problem is my wife constantly complains about how slow it now runs, that it sometimes freezes and even worse it all too frequently flags up a message that it cannot connect to the server. This necessitates her having to switch off and back on again. My wife gets so exasperated she threatens to dump the computer and buy a new one. My thoughts are that if she did that, before too long she would find herself back where she started.
I would like to be able to give her some helpful advice but I have insufficient knowledge to do that. My own laptop, an HP Compaq Presario, is about 5 years old but generally runs OK though it does not get the amount of usage my wife's PC gets. She has run CCleaner and Malware bytes without improving things.
Should I be suggesting to her that before she spends money on a new PC she should take it to a PC maintenance/repair person? My only thoughts about doing this are that I know of one or two people who have done this but have found any improvement is soon lost.
Any advice please?
My wife has a custom built PC which runs on Windows 10. The PC is about 3 years old and is used for sending and receiving numerous emails, browsing the web, on line banking, watching iPlayer and that's about all. The HD has plenty of free space and though I cannot remember the amount of memory I am sure it is more than adequate.
The problem is my wife constantly complains about how slow it now runs, that it sometimes freezes and even worse it all too frequently flags up a message that it cannot connect to the server. This necessitates her having to switch off and back on again. My wife gets so exasperated she threatens to dump the computer and buy a new one. My thoughts are that if she did that, before too long she would find herself back where she started.
I would like to be able to give her some helpful advice but I have insufficient knowledge to do that. My own laptop, an HP Compaq Presario, is about 5 years old but generally runs OK though it does not get the amount of usage my wife's PC gets. She has run CCleaner and Malware bytes without improving things.
Should I be suggesting to her that before she spends money on a new PC she should take it to a PC maintenance/repair person? My only thoughts about doing this are that I know of one or two people who have done this but have found any improvement is soon lost.
Any advice please?