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You pay a small fortune for computers, yet in a relatively short period of time, either they or the software they host is obsolete, outdated, slow, decrepit and just plain aggravating.

Ken’s computer is only 3 years old, yet it draaaaaaaaaaggggggs along. I’ve checked it for spyware, viruses and other malicious software, but there is none present. He never downloads anything except emails and I’ve taught him to be very careful about which of those he opens. So why is it that his once rather snappy machine has become so creakily slow lately?

Oh it’s not something that happened overnight. No, this has been creeping up on us for the past year probably. I wonder if a memory upgrade would help. I hate to spend money on it if there’s no chance of it helping. I’m sorry now that I didn’t cannibalize my old machine’s memory before I took it to the thrift shop. I could have split it up between his and mine. I guess I was too concerned with trying to get all my files off the hard drive and lost sight of the other, useable things I could have retrieved from the machine.

What I figure I’ll have to do is to copy his files over to my thumb drive and reinstall his OS. I’ve tried to defragment, run system sweeps and so forth but only got a tiny bit of gain from doing all of those things. He’s been looking at a new computer, but doesn’t really want to spend the money right now with Christmas and having just had to pay a pretty penny for the emergency vet bill for Delilah and I can’t blame him.

Guess I will just have to bite the bullet and take the couple of hours it will probably take to copy the files, reinstall the OS and then reinstall all his programs.

Sounds like a project for this weekend, huh?

Anybody have any other tricks up their sleeves?

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