Computers can be considered one of the most common household appliances these days. Apparently, trends in computer specifications are changing with each coming day, as their value and utilization are growing higher and higher. Original problems that were faced by the early computer manufacturers are not heard now but there are other problems that have emerged. The pace in our work environment has been accelerated and people look for more advanced and updated computers. Just consider this scenario for a moment: you are working on a very important task related to your career and you are running short of time. To your horror, you switch on your computer and it is taking ages to get started and finally you have the desktop opened up in front of you. As you start opening up various folders and run various applications, the machine stalls and hangs up later on. Surely, you cannot work with such a situation with your computer and the task that you were supposed to do will definitely be ruined as it is slowing you down. In order to avoid such situations, the user must be well-versed with the reasons for having a slow computer.

There might be a lot of reasons for having a slow computer. An expert can very well make out the specific reasons but for a non technical, this might be a little difficult, if not impossible. Few basic terminologies and a little information would help to make a non technical person much more comfortable to know about the slow functioning of his/her computer.