System Performance

System performance is vital to any user on any machine; the system performance is what gives the user a pleasurable experience on a machine. Compromisation of system performance can be caused by many things, the most common issue with systems are web browser performance, and this is mainly slowed down by having unnecessary toolbars installed as well as having a large cache and cookie store.

A cache store is when you load a website for the first time, the images and text of the website is saved locally to speed up the loading of the web page. The purpose of this is so when the webpage is visited again the cache store checks for changes on the website and updates itself with the new information; this is for the purpose of not having to load the full website every time the browser is opened.

The cookie store works in the same way as a cache store but its purpose is slightly different. A cookie store collects information about a user such as usernames and passwords. This information is collected when you are signed into a website for the first time such as Facebook. The purpose of this is so when the webpage is revisited it looks at the cookie store on the computer and sees a user has logged into that site before. Then from here the user is automatically logged into a website.

The downside to these two services are when a user is heavily using the internet on a low end computer or an older one is that every time the web browser is launched the whole cache and cookie store is loaded, then if you add on the toolbars alongside them. New users to a computer is usually fine into a certain point such as if the user was to sign into multiple sites on a regular basis and visit new websites on a regular basis this would cause the computer to provide bad system performance to the end user.

This issue can be solved. When most users notice that there machines are providing very bad performance there solution is to go to a store and purchase a new computer, but in reality it is a lot simpler than that. Any user can easily speed up there system performance by carrying out various simple tasks on a weekly basis such as clearing there browser of cookies and cache. This is usually done by launching the web browser and opening the settings tab, then navigation to advanced settings and selecting clear browsing data.