why is my computer slow?

why is my computer slow? I get asked this a lot. It's always a PC that's afflicted. The short answer is, take a gander at your computers processes. You can do this by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and clicking on the processes tab. Click here to see an example. If you see enough processes that you have to scroll down to see them all, your in trouble. This list is inversely proportional to the performance of your computer. That is, as it grows, your PC slows, hey that's pretty good, i think i'll use that, he he. Okay now what? Yeah that's a topic for another post. Short answer... get rid of them.