Being in the business of repairing computers, I find there is one question I get asked far more than any other. It is, “why is my computer running so slow?” A slow computer seems to cause more aggravation to the computer owner than any other problem.

When a computer slows down there are the usual suspects. However, there is often an overlooked problem that is to blame. In this article, we will talk about these usual suspects as well as the often overlooked problem.

Malware And Registry Corruption

Spyware, adware, viruses and all that nasty stuff can be detrimental to a computer’s health. When a computer is running slow, these are the first things to check. Spyware can also be detrimental to a person’s financial health because it can steal his of her banking information. Being well aware of this, most people have a virus/spyware scanner installed on their computer.

Another problem most people are of aware of is registry corruption. Registry corruption can make a computer very slow and unstable. In some cases it can even make a computer impossible to start up. Registry corruption is actually more damaging to Windows XP and Vista than it was to the older operating systems.

Once in a while I will run into a computer that has slowed down but doesn’t have spyware, viruses or registry corruption. This of course, means I have to look elsewhere for the problem that is slowing down the computer.

Drivers Do Cause Problems Sometimes

It is often a problem of this kind will involve an outdated or unstable driver. Even if this were known in advance, finding a replacement and installing it takes time and effort and to the customer, this comes with a cost.

Enter The Driver Scanner

However, we don’t have to do this the old fashion way anymore! Now, there is an excellent new driver scanner that does 100% of the work for us! All we do is start it up and the driver scanner will find any bad or outdated driver we have and it will then upgrade it automatically for us.

The way I see it, driver scanners are worth their weight in gold because they easily do a job that was once very difficult and time consuming. Due to the expense of dealing with them, the fact there could have been outdated drivers in a PC used to be ignored unless these bad drivers were causing major harm. So, it was common for a computer operator to have to put up with a few irregularities in his or her computer’s performance. Now that a good driver scanner can take care of the matter, we don’t have to accept these irregularities anymore!