Why PC slows down? Possible Hardware issues and fixes.

Over heating of processor:

Problem	Solution
Cooler fans that’s mounted on processor gets dust and slows down. This heats up the processor. Upon reaching certain temperature set in the BIOS, the system slows down.	To fix this, make sure the fan is clean. Take your laptop or terminal to service center, and ask them to clean up all the dust. You can do this yourself if you have previously opened your terminal or laptop.

Hard drive failures from bad sectors:

Problem	Solution
Over time, hard disk starts to develop bad sectors  (Sectors are small data units on hard disk), from frequent data usage. In that case the new data are automatically copied to free or good sectors. But this wont happen exactly as is, the data might end up on bad sectors resulting in the failure of that data. As the drive starts to fail, this would then happen often.	To fix this, turn on SMART features in the BIOS  to let the SMART diagnose alert the failure immediately. In addition to that, benchmark tools such as Fresh Diagnose or Aida64 (previously known as Everest) helps to run results of your system hardware and know its current status to easily determine whether to carry on with it or buy a new one.

Search for Files in Windows XP

A program called Search can help you locate Files and Folders on your PC.

1) Click Start, Search and the ‘Search Results’ window opens.

2) On the left side of the window, click the ‘All Files and Folders’ link and three fill-in boxes are displayed in the window:

a) In the box labeled ‘All or part of the file name’ type in the full or partial file name you want to locate.

b) You can optionally search for text within each file by entering the text you want to search for in the box labeled ‘A word or phrase in the file’.

Note: If you look for files by file name and text within the file, then only files matching both conditions will be found.

c) Click the arrow at the right side of the box labeled “Look In’ and in the drop-down list that opens, select the drive(s) you want to search in. If you want to search all folders in the drive you select, check the ‘Include subfolders’ check box.

3) Click the 'Search' button and all files and folders matching your search conditions appear in a list. The path of each folder and file is also displayed