What's my computer up too ?

grumpycrab

I agree with Fightsback find out exactly what's going on at startup.
We have a few Vista clients - no major problems if fully patched but the main culprits :-
- turn off search indexing
- turn off auto disk fragmentation
- turn off auto windows defender running
Any of these could be grinding the disk down.
EDIT: and check you only have 1 antivirus software running

agrinnall

Happychappy wrote: »

Hopefully Windows 10 will sort that out on its release end of july ; ( or not.

Only if you're running Win 7 or 8, I don't think there's an upgrade from Vista (at least, not a free one), and you haven't yet confirmed which OS you have.

Double_V

Best and easiest solution would be to clean install your Windows.
Format the HDD and install Windows back on.

Also having multiple antivirus programs cause some PCs to load slow.
Avast is also a heavy program.

Make sure to backup all your data.

grumpycrab

Double_V wrote: »

Avast is also a heavy program.

Thought Avast was one of the lighter ones?

AndyPix

grumpycrab wrote: »

I agree with Fightsback find out exactly what's going on at startup.
We have a few Vista clients - no major problems if fully patched but the main culprits :-
- turn off search indexing
- turn off auto disk fragmentation
- turn off auto windows defender running
Any of these could be grinding the disk down.
EDIT: and check you only have 1 antivirus software running

All this ^^ Great advice

Happychappy

I do apologise I am running Windows 7 Home Premium service pack 1, it came with Vista but I binned it a couple of years or so ago. I run Acronis True Image and back up to the Seagate external drives of 2 and 1 TB

Strider590

Find out what's using all that RAM, everything else should come second.

Happychappy

Double_V wrote: »

Best and easiest solution would be to clean install your Windows.
Format the HDD and install Windows back on.

Also having multiple antivirus programs cause some PCs to load slow.
Avast is also a heavy program.

Make sure to backup all your data.

Thanks DV

I have been so cheesed off with this issue I was looking at either changing the Pc or getting a128 or 256 SSD drive, but not really confident enough to replace the existing drive or install the SSD drive and have them both in place, the SSD to boot and the existing HDD to save, all backed up with the external drives ? as we speak it is working its socks off again

Happychappy

Strider590 wrote: »

Find out what's using all that RAM, everything else should come second.

Strider

Looking at the Processes, the largest use of 75112k is Opera, there are 12 open Opera.exe running, other than that Outlook is 43000k Avast is next at 6443k Nothing seems excessive but the CPU use is showing 92% and 1.8gb of the 2gb, I only have browser windows open and Outlook inbox

Double_V

grumpycrab wrote: »

Thought Avast was one of the lighter ones?

Actually I have found Avast and AVG both very heavy for the machines.