Any ideas?

[volmanbill]

My new(er) laptop running Windows 7 suddenly slowed waaay down yesterday. Where my CPU usage typically showed in the 30-40% range, it's now in the 70-100% range with physical memory also max'd out. No donkey porn and Ad-aware, Malwarebytes and McAfee full scans all show clean. I'm on my other laptop now and haven't slowed down at all, so I'm assuming it's not my network. I also tried system restore with no effect.

Any ideas?

 

[Freak]

My new(er) laptop running Windows 7 suddenly slowed waaay down yesterday. Where my CPU usage typically showed in the 30-40% range, it's now in the 70-100% range with physical memory also max'd out. No donkey porn and Ad-aware, Malwarebytes and McAfee full scans all show clean. I'm on my other laptop now and haven't slowed down at all, so I'm assuming it's not my network. I also tried system restore with no effect.

Any ideas?

By a mac. Sorry I couldn't resist.

You've obviously rebooted and that didn't help. Have you checked your running processes to see if any one program or process is hogging the CPU and/or memory?

Are programs running slow and unresponsive or are you mostly just noticing slow internet speed?

 

[BigPapaVol]

I'd ask ksush. She knows laptops.
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[volmanbill]

I did check processes and didn't see anything out of line. All programs are slow. It was lightening fast and all of the sudden it slowed. I'm so careful on that unit that I even have all cookies set to manual acceptance. Even when I just hover over an icon I sometimes get a "working" pointer.

I'd ask ksush. She knows laptops.
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:lol:


EDIT- It appears system idle process is the culprit but I don't know what to do with it. It won't let me end it.

 

[Freak]

Have you tried booting into safe mode and see if that helps any? That would at least give you an idea if it's a software issue.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

I did check processes and didn't see anything out of line. All programs are slow. It was lightening fast and all of the sudden it slowed. I'm so careful on that unit that I even have all cookies set to manual acceptance. Even when I just hover over an icon I sometimes get a "working" pointer.



:lol:


EDIT- It appears system idle process is the culprit but I don't know what to do with it. It won't ;et me end it.

I wonder if your AV program is messing with it?? Also, check any real-time scanning programs other than that.

 

[Slydell]

System idle process is normal at 95+%. It actually means your cpu isn't working very hard on anything. Other than that-I got nutin'.

 

[volmanbill]

I wonder if your AV program is messing with it?? Also, check any real-time scanning programs other than that.

I'm wondering this too. I was setting it up to be a media server for my PS3 yesterday.

I did start it in safe mode and it doesn't seem to have issues. Has a CPU usage of 0% and physical memory at 31%.

 

[volmanbill]

Thanks Eric.(and everyone else) I disabled Windows Media Center and I'm running smooth again. Tomorrow I'll spend some time and see if I can find the exact setting causing the issue.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

Thanks Eric. I disabled Windows Media Center and I'm running smooth again. Tomorrow I'll spend some time and see if I can find the exact setting causing the issue.

I would be willing to bet that it's a plug-in, if any you installed in Media Center. I would start by uninstalling them all first, then just let it be vanilla for a couple of days, if you can wait that long.

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

I'd ask ksush. She knows laptops.
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