Sometimes my computer seems to be running slow. How can I check
to see if there are unwanted things running on it?
To see if there are any unwanted applications running on your computer all you have to do is press these three keys at the same time: CTRL SHIFT ESC.
This combination will bring up something called the Task Manager and show you all the applications and processes you have running at the time. An application is one of your programs and a program will have one of more processes.
It’s not unusual to have about 30 processes running at the same time. If you have more then this then you might want to look into what each process does and stop the ones you don’t want. You’ll also want to be doing regular things such as disk defragmenting. For all that information just refer to this handy page here.
The Fake Geek