if computer seems to be running slow

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my computer seems to be running slowly after i’v had it on for a few minutes.

maybe i have too many processes running. it does what i ask it to but there is a long delay.

Should i try what i found in a search on thi forum,…

"somebody was told to go through the msconfig procedure, then select the start up tab and Disable all’

this will make start up better probably but i’m not sure about running…

thank you

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It’s very difficult to troubleshoot. We need much more info.
Open Task Manager and check which program is taking the CPU. Or, better, use Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) and let it open. Sort the entries by the CPU usage. Which program is the culprit?

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You can use WinPatrol to disable start ups, just disable the ones you don’t need. :wink:

WinPatrol has many uses from blocking spyware to showing what’s running. :wink:

For more detail of what is running try Autoruns &
Process Explorer.

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thankyou i’ll try those… i also forgot to disk de-frag,
so hopefully that will help too

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when you say which is the culprit? how will i know how much cpu a program should use? thanks

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But I have little knowledge to judge some of them whether needly or useful … :-\

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That’s where WinPatrol PLUS shines.

There is always Google.

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when you say which is the culprit? how will i know how much cpu a program should use? thanks
System idle process should typically use the most. (It's actually not doing anything, but shows how much CPU is available.) Other processes use a few % at times, when the computer is running them. If any program constantly uses more than about 5% or 10%, time to start looking at why, in my experience. It's not unusual for some programs to briefly use almost all of it, (>80-90%) very briefly, while starting or performing labour intensive operations.
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Did you download and install Process Explorer? Isn’t there a column called “CPU”?

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I just downloaded/installed process explorer, and there is a CPU column

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So, just follow it :wink:

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there are 79 processes and the physical usage percent keeps changing but now it is at 87 perent… up down… many diff colors…

i did kill the ‘big fix’ process because it always says it has important fixes but then seems, empty

but i’m not sure what else to do, or how to follow the PROCESS EXPLORER’s read out

it seem that iexplore.exe is using the most cpu

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The idea is to get an idea of what processes using say the top 3-5 highest CPU % and report them here.

If they are non essential then they don’t need to run in the background.

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It seems to me that 79 running processes is a few too many. It is twice as many as is running (39 processes) when I start up my computer but that is a relative thing. I suggest you do as the others suggest and let us know what processes are using the most cpu percentages.

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i unistaled a few unnecessary items like the ask toolbar and the crawler toolbar… i tried to uninstall the yahoo toolbar but it won’t let me…

i clicked in the CPU header on the process explorer. I CAN’T find the process explorer program from the start menu without gong to the installation pkge and clicking run, it is lik there isn’t an icon…

i attached 2 screeenshots of the process explore. thanks

iexplore appears 4 times…

i think i shoud get rid of bojour too

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here is the process explorer text,
it is impressive how all this computer stuff makes so much sense to you all

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Try RevoUninstaller.
Also, I think your computer is slow due to the set avast + Comodo + SpywareTerminator.
Why would you kept ST nowadays?

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You could also try ToolbarCop http://www.snapfiles.com/get/toolbarcop.html.

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toolbarcop, i’ll try that

contribute toolbar and yahoo toolbar aren’t even showing up in add/remove programs list

crazy

i downloaded spyware terminator to help me find something, but i think i have enough of an aresonal. so maybe i don’t need it,
how high of a level should i have avast set at?
thanks

i took a screenshot showing toolbars still in IE

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Hi jthomson3rd,

You could also scan with this malware fixing tool - freefixer, the latest release can be downloaded here:
http://www.freefixer.com/about/release-notes.html#0.41
If you need information as what to fix with this ask the helpers here,

polonus