People working from home — remember to restart your office computer every couple of days to keep it running smoothly.
This sounds trivially simple, but it prevents a surprising number of issues. Windows accumulates memory leaks, pending updates, and stale network connections over time. A machine that has been running for two weeks without a restart will often be noticeably slower, less responsive, and more prone to connectivity issues than one that was restarted recently.
When you were in the office, IT staff or overnight maintenance windows handled this automatically. Working from home, it is easy to leave your computer running indefinitely — especially if you are remoting into an office machine. Make it a habit: restart at the end of your workday on Mondays and Thursdays, and you will avoid most of the gradual performance degradation that builds up over time.
If your computer is still slow after a fresh restart, that is a different problem worth investigating. But in our experience, a significant percentage of "my computer is slow" calls are resolved entirely by a restart that was long overdue.
— Robert