computer slow - again!!!!!!!!

magoogy

how do i find out why my computer keeps slowing down?

thanks

Quincy_3

:shhh: are you sure you need any help, or could you at least give the spec of the PC as my crystal ball is in the dishwaser

skiddy2k

click "ctrl+alt+del" go in2 task manager and see which program is taking up the most CPU (process tab)... will narrow down the source of ur problem

happyhero

Mine does this occasionally and the one at the bottom "Sysytem Idle process" fluctuates a lot whilst I view it but it is ften at 98ish dropping to 66 17 etc and back up to 98. Is there something wrong or is this normal?

Life_On_Mars

Have you tried Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter?

magoogy

sorry it was so short yesterday - was totally p***d off because that short sentance took forever to load.......

thanks to you all for replies....

i opened my task manager and found;-

vcssecs.exe - system - 412k
wdfmgr.exe - local service 376k

svchost.exe - system - 1,424k
slserv.ese - system - 380k
nisum.exe - system - 1,824
navapsvc.exe - system - 860k
ccevtmgr.exe - system - 2,636k
spoolsv.exe - system 1,412k
svchost.exe local service - 728k
'' '' network service - 1,308 k
'' '' system - 10.368k
alg.exe - local service 732k
svchost.exe - network service - 1,696k
'' '' - system - 2,008 k
lsass.exe - system - 1,100k
services.exe - system 1,500k
winlogon.exe - system 1,120k
csrss.exe - system - 2,170k
smss.exe - system - 100k
ccpxysvc.exe - system - 4,270k
explorer.exe - kez - 7,830k
symwsc.exe - system - 3,360k
system - system - 100k
system idle process - system - cpu 98/97, etc 100k

PF USAGE - 216MB

i note some of the above are running twice - is this because im networked with my daughters laptop?

any help would be appreciated...

thanks

computerwoman

:j try these, ad-aware gets rid of cookies
a2free gets rid of trojans
start/run/msconfig/start-up and knock everything off
if your pc doesnt work ok after that try putting some of the msconfig's back on, or does it need defraging, if all else fails format. if you don't use msn remove it start/control panel/add remove/add remove components at the
left side and remove.
you could also try the disk clean up.
but when mine starts to play up i just format.

magoogy

thanks hun - but, have already tried all them - i would like to know really why there are two of some stuff in there - does anyone know - and, what does everything mean? what can i do without...

thanks

pchelpman

magoogy ... if you want to learn what these processes do you should google them and research. They all look OK to me except these 3 ...

'' '' network service - 1,308 k
'' '' system - 10.368k
'' '' - system - 2,008 k

Please run system-wide searches for each of these and let us know exactly where they are running from. Please give details of what you find.

It would be helpful to cleanse your system of malware that may be lurking/running without your knowledge. To do this you should work through the first 4 posts to this thread ...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=133269

Please report back ...

(a) what you find for those 3 processes (if anything)

(b) how your system is operating after you have gone through the thread I recommend.

magoogy

that does seem to have helped a little bit thanks, but, only time will tell if it has totally done the job......

i tried googling the above 3 but couldnt find them - not sure at all what they are....do you think i should delete them and see what happens?

thanks for your help

Chippy_Minton

Download and install Sysinternals Process Explorer - http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html.

It gives more information than Task Manager. Double-click the process name and look on the Image tab for command line being used to run svchost.exe. On the face of it, those 3 processes look normal to me, but check them as described.