Continued - slow computer, me banging my head

jrossjord

Downloading Firefox now - will let you know...

jrossjord

Well I've put off downloading another browser, not sure why, didn't think it would help, seemed difficult...

anyhow, obviously it wasn't difficult and it's made a huge difference!!!

Thanks for all help, I know my way round a bit better now and the computer is workable again.

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have all the windows updates settled down yet?

which process is using the 1.6GB - a ram upgrade to 2GB should help - the gist is, the commit charge is how much ram is in use, if the commit is higher than installed ram, the machine swaps to the hard disk, resulting in slow machine

elektra

jrossjord wrote: »

anyhow, obviously it wasn't difficult and it's made a huge difference!!!

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That's good to hear.
You might want to add extension AdblockPlus

Weirdly I've just logged onto aforementioned old computer and have just signed in here to reply to your thread and avast popped up saying it had blocked a virus :eek: which I never see on my own PC.
At least avast doing it's job.

It's the mention of ghostery on this thread avast didn't like - it refers to

computerforumz........../ghostery.png

jrossjord

The windows updates seem OK. Running comp on firefox is a dream! Only when in IE does the commit charge go up to 1.6M but can't see a process using that much, IE is the biggest using about 300+M so not sure where the commit charge is going. On Firefox the commit doesn't go much above 600M and it runs smoothly.

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in task manager, tick show processes from all users, and view select columns, select the working set and commit columns

re ie vs firefox, it's usually the other way around, must be something specific to what's happening on your firefox page

uninstall/disable ghostery addon

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a disk image (not clone) backup to an external drive, and a macrium boot cd may be prudent http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx as you don't have the windows cd , it will enable you to recreate this setup and data if you have any future problems

jrossjord

I don't have working set and commit columns as options - are they called something else? (I have:

PID
CPU usage
cpu time
memory usage
memory usage delta
peak memory delta
page faults
user objects
i/o reads
i.o read bytes
session id
user name
page faults delta
virtual mem size
paged pool
non-paged pool
base priority
handle count
thread count
gdi objects
i/o writes
i/o write bytes
i/o other
i/o other bytes

mean anything?!

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memory usage, and virtual memory