{"id":99,"date":"2026-05-21T07:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/2026\/07\/22\/mac-ou-pc-lent-le-plan-daction-en-7-etapes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:58:58","slug":"mac-ou-pc-lent-le-plan-daction-en-7-etapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/2026\/05\/21\/mac-ou-pc-lent-le-plan-daction-en-7-etapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Mac or PC: A 7-Step Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A slow computer isn't necessarily one you should throw away. Here's our step-by-step plan.<\/p><ol><li><strong>Really restart<\/strong> (not sleep mode) \u2014 this clears the memory.<\/li><li><strong>Free up disk space<\/strong>&nbsp;: When there's less than 10 % of free space, everything slows down.<\/li><li><strong>Limit automatic startup programs<\/strong>&nbsp;: Every app that launches at startup continuously consumes resources.<\/li><li><strong>Update<\/strong> the system and applications.<\/li><li><strong>Get rid of browser extensions<\/strong> useless \u2014 memory-intensive.<\/li><li><strong>Check the disk's health<\/strong> (S.M.A.R.T.): A failing hard drive slows everything down.<\/li><li><strong>Analyze the processes<\/strong>&nbsp;: Software that ties up the processor in the background is quickly detected.<\/li><\/ol><p>Still slow? We'll run a diagnostic check <a href=\"https:\/\/depannage.elpisia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remotely, 7 days a week<\/a> \u2014 often in less than an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/99.webp\" alt=\"Ordinateur lent\" class=\"wp-image-152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/99.webp 1280w, https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/99-300x165.webp 300w, https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/99-1024x563.webp 1024w, https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/99-768x422.webp 768w, https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/99-18x10.webp 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before buying a new computer, try this. In 8 out of 10 cases, you can fix the slowness without replacing your computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-depannage-informatique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elpisia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}