If your computer grew sluggish, the suggestion that you might have come across would have been to back up all your files, reformat your hard drive, and reinstall the operating system. Most of the times, technicians associate the slowing down of a PC with the operating system. So how exactly can an operating system make your PC sluggish?
There are basically two ways by which an operating system can slow down your PC:
- When a new operating system is installed onto an older PC
- Corruption of the operating system’s registry
The first problem, as you can understand, arises when you have changed the operating system or upgraded to a newer one on your computer. Each Windows operating system is larger than the previous one, and computers lack the available resources to accommodate each new operating system. Thus, lesser space and resources means a slower computer.
As for the second reason, it is the registry of the operating system that keeps track of all parts of the computer. Therefore, files added or moved on your hard drive are also registered by the operating system registry. Besides, every thing that you do on your computer goes through the operating system registry.
With so much work flooding in, registry files become bloated. Registry corruption occurs, and that is evident when your microprocessor takes longer to find what it needs from the registry. If there wasn’t much bulk in the registry of the operating system, then the microprocessor wouldn’t have taken longer. A registry cleaner is a better option to clean up the computer’s registry as opposed to reinstalling the whole operating system, the latter which is considered as the last resort.
