There’s that great feeling when you buy a new computer. Turn it on and it zips straight to the desktop. Use it for a few years and it starts to slow. Sometimes very slowly. So why does this happen and how can it be repaired?
A computer is one great big filing cabinet with auto retrieval system that doesn’t always organise the cabinet in an efficient way during operation. In one sense it basically drops information into the cabinet wherever it can find a space and then leaves a little yellow sticker at top so that anyone searching for the info doesn’t have to delve into the file but simply scan the sticker. If a real paper cabinet was run this way there are two ways of looking at it. Sit down and laugh or loose your rocker. I prefer sit down and laugh although I wouldn’t want it to be my cabinet.
Real computer hard drives that store information have to be able to find that information. The tools for retrieval are in the registry. A damaged registry occurs through software and hardware malfunctions. Hard malfunctions are fixed by using new physical parts. Software errors are resolved by using registry cleaner or if confident and skilled entering the registry and making changes.