When someone refers to their computer being slow often techs jump right into thinking the person is referring to the overall computer. In this slow computer repair series we take a closer look at why the internet may be so slow for you. Previous video on Defrag - ****** Slow Comupuer Channel - ****** subscribe today at - ****** Partial Transcription: Hi, this is Jacob with pctechguide.com, and in this video series we are covering, "Why you're computer is so slow?" low?" In the previous five videos, we've covered multiple tips on how to speed up your computer overall because most of the time it's not just one issue it's several issues and going through those several different issues we're going to find the one that's the main problem for you. In this particular case, we're going to take a look at the browsers, Firefox, Windows Explorer, as well as Chrome. If you haven't already watched the other videos, I highly recommend you do because we have done it in a certain series for a reason. However, in the description below this video, you are going to see a link to the playlist. And that playlist is going to have all the previous five videos for this on how to speed up your computer. As we've already talked about, when your computer itself is fast but the web browser itself is slow, it could be a poor internet connection. But let's say you have a fast internet connection. Well, it could be that you don't have enough memory which we already covered. It could be not enough disc space which we already covered which is unlikely. However, a major thing that I found with a lot of browsers is going to be the extensions that people are using. And over time you just start adding in all these extensions that are auto loading on you in the browser, and they can actually have a very big negative effect on page load time. First up here, we're going to take a look at Chrome. So I'm going to go to the Dialogue Box, and we're going to go ahead and go under Settings. And under Settings we're going to go and jump to the Extensions tab and under the Extensions tab we're going to see the Extensions that have currently been added onto my web browser. Now some of these, let's say, it's like a coupon bar or some other tool bar that can be slowing your system down and your web browsing experience down. So you know I want RoboForm there. It's something I use everyday. I love the program. You know, these other ones I have in here that I use. So I'm not having any issues either, but I would recommend you go through your extensions. And if you're not using some of the extensions, the add-ons there, I definitely would recommend you go in and you remove them. Another thing that you can do is go under Settings and if you scroll to the very, very bottom, you're gonna see Show Advanced Settings. And then scroll to the very bottom of that, you're going to see that Reset button right there at the bottom. And what this Reset button is going to do is it's actually gonna delete all the cookies. It's gonna delete everything within Chrome and basically let you start fresh or you can uninstall it and reinstall it. What that's going to do is just gonna put on that fresh copy for you in case it was having issues before. Now you would have to reinstall your add-ons and your extensions and the like, but it's something that is recommended from time to time, especially if you're experiencing a lot of issues with your browser. And this will eliminate it as not being the cause of your internet being slow. Next up, we're going to hop over to Firefox. Firefox is basically the same process almost. I'm going to go to the Dialogue Box there. In the Dialogue Box I'm going to go to Add-ons and under Add-ons here's my Extensions. Then I can go through and say, "Do I want these, do I not want these?" Try to eliminate some of these and I did find, especially with Firefox, that if you have Firefox crashing on you far more than usual, it's probably an extension or a plugin. So go through and make sure that you want everything there. And if you don't, just remove it and chances are that can help, especially if it's a toolbar or something that is causing ads on your computer. So there's a lot of adware out there that gets thrown in this. The adware shows extra ads and pop-ups and the like on your system. That's just nothing fun. You can also go in through the plugin section too as well and see if there is a plugin that you are not using anymore. So if you're like well, you know what? I haven't used Google Talk before. I never plan on using it. Why not remove it, right?