Posted: 1/9/2009 8:46:21 AM EDT
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Something is wrong here. My CPU usage is running at 100% constantly. Pages are loading at dial up speed. Everything is running slow. It's only been a problem for a week or so. I'm using AVG, Adaware, MS Defender and Spybot. Everything reads OK. Web browser choice doesn't make a difference either. I use either Firefox or Safari. Task manager shows 63 running processes. It's a Toshiba laptop, P4, 556kDDR RAM. I've got DSL and two computers and a printer on a small, secure wireless network. My net surfing is pretty much limited to ARFCOM, other gun sites, photobucket and, e-mail. Very little else.
I don't know what other info to provide. Can someone help? ETA; What a way to waste post 357  .
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Something is wrong here. My CPU usage is running at 100% constantly. Pages are loading at dial up speed. Everything is running slow. It's only been a problem for a week or so. I'm using AVG, Adaware, MS Defender and Spybot. Everything reads OK. Web browser choice doesn't make a difference either. I use either Firefox or Safari. Task manager shows 63 running processes. It's a Toshiba laptop, P4, 556kDDR RAM. I've got DSL and two computers and a printer on a small, secure wireless network. My net surfing is pretty much limited to ARFCOM, other gun sites, photobucket and, e-mail. Very little else. I don't know what other info to provide. Can someone help? If you sort the processes by CPU usage, whats using most of it? |
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start "MSCONFIG" from the run command. On the "Startup" tab, How much garbage is in there that you don't recognize? Under the services tab; Bonjour service Install driver Table mana... Office Source Engine Swvpdtmr Are all "unknown" Windows defender and, Windows media playern... also show unknown 
Edit;Under the start up tab, pretty much everything |
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I second GMW's malwarbytes suggestion –– My dad has been hit twice by the Anti Virus 2009 thing and it cleared it right up. Symptoms were similar but with Firefox.
Generally speaking, Safari on Windows sucks (and this comes from a Mac guy). Use Firefox or Chrome from Google instead. Is AVG really running? I've had a problem on my wife's laptop the last few weeks where AVG has had a corrupt file and won't download any new updates. This is a known problem and AVG has a utility to remove the files so new updates will work again. Here's the AVG FAQ on it |
| Yeah, I second the browser thing as well (third it?). A lot of those things have very memory intensive clients which can choke up your computer if you're running <1gb of RAM. I'm starting to find the same issues with my home computer and Firefox. Try Chrome though, see what happens. |
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Is AVG really running? I've had a problem on my wife's laptop the last few weeks where AVG has had a corrupt file and won't download any new updates. This is a known problem and AVG has a utility to remove the files so new updates will work again. Here's the AVG FAQ on it Did this, I also upgraded to AVG8 and will run after malwarebytes gets done You could also download and install Malwarebytes from Malwarebytes.org and do a full scan. Doing this right now. I also turned off all non essential items in the tool bar too. My "quote fu" sucks! I'll update later. |