by Shane Grantham | Mar 5, 2025
Recently, my main Linux computer was getting slow and I couldn’t figure out why. The startup processes were examined and nothing out of the ordinary was discovered. Next the disk space was viewed and the hard drive was almost full! Nothing came to mind that...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 14, 2024
One of my long-time computer repair clients asked me to analyze their Windows 11 laptop early this March. He said it’s been slow since I’ve owned it and it would be nice to have it faster. I checked different things and found it was all the widgets which...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 19, 2023
Many computers are part of my business and personal life. My main office computer is a Linux Mint 20.x machine which used to have Windows 7 installed. Linux does well on it the majority of the time but today it was slow and the hard drive LED was solid most of the...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 26, 2022
The last week or so my main Linux computer in my office has become so slow that I cannot use it. It used to be a windows 7 computer that I installed Linux Mint 20.02. It’s been good most of the time but lately it got very slow and I was looking in the top...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 15, 2020
My newest laptop is an Apple MacBook Air which is light and fast. I got it this January and it has helped me learn Apple computers and get work done on the run. It was fast for several months and the last months it got slower and slower. Then one day it got so bad it...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 29, 2020
For the last year or so, my own Linux computer has been slow. It is a Dell Dimension made in 2006 so it’s definitely a slow computer by new standards. I installed Linux Mint on it and it was fairly fast. Over time, like many computers it got slower and slower. Last...
