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The Wirecutter Show

What’s Wrong With Your Computer?

The Wirecutter Show

The New York Times

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4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Struggling with a slow computer? We share practical steps for freeing up storage, decluttering apps, and more. Plus, how to know when it's time to get a new one.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you take anything away from this entire podcast, please update your software.

0:08.5

Please update your operating system.

0:10.4

Update your computer.

0:13.3

I'm Christine Cyr Clissette.

0:15.0

I'm Kyra Blackwell.

0:16.3

I'm Rosie Garan.

0:17.3

And you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

0:29.9

Thank you. Rosie Garan, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show. Hey, pals. Hi. Hey, we're going tech today. I think that you both know and that hopefully our listeners know that I'm like a super, super tech whiz.

0:39.4

I know all the things.

0:40.8

So, you know, I'm looking forward to.

0:43.6

You're going to school our guest.

0:44.5

I'm going to school our guest today.

0:47.9

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

0:49.9

Yeah, because your nose is growing and growing and growing and growing Pinocchio style.

0:55.2

Yeah, we are always sort of thinking about what kind of tech episodes we can do.

1:02.1

And the truth is that not one of us is particularly tech savvy.

1:07.7

And it's ironic because wirecutters actually known as a tech site foundationally. I mean,

1:11.8

that's where it started. So it is kind of ironic that the three of us feel so out of our depth when we're

1:16.5

talking about computers. Well, all these years later, there are a lot of really, really clever and

1:21.8

talented techie people at Wirecutter who now help us. One of them is Kimber Streams. Kimber wrote a piece on the site called

1:32.2

How to Make Your Old Computer Feel New Again. And I think each of us individually has bookmarked

1:37.8

that piece. Yeah. It's been on my list of to do, all the things in this article. To do. Yeah.

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