#91818 - jake2431 - Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:09 pm
My computer seems to have to work a lot harder than it used to while running. It jumps around on the memory usage anywhere from say 1% to 60% or more. It used to run fairly quite, but no it runs loud all the time. Is there a program that can help me target and fix the problem files or should I just start deleting progams? In the 'windows task manager' I check out the processes, but I don't know what some of the files are. My computer is virus free as far as I can tell(scanned in just now). Anyway, I am going to continue to work on it; I just wanted to ask you guys incase there is an easy solution.
#91820 - sajiimori - Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:21 pm
Uninstall as many applications as you can. Use the msconfig utility and uncheck as many things in the startup section as you can. (It's almost always safe to uncheck everything in that section, and you can always turn it back on if you have to.) This obviously assumes you're running Windows.
High memory usage is healthy. Modern operating systems will happily use extra memory to cache filesystem data.
#91824 - tepples - Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:46 pm
And to make sure you don't have malware on your machine, use housecall and adaware and spybot. Also look at task manager to see which program is using most of your CPU time, and look its process name up on Google.
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#91825 - jake2431 - Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:12 am
I have already ran spybot, ad-aware, and avg. Now I will go use house call and try the rest.
#91829 - jake2431 - Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:56 am
Okay, through. It seems to be running a lot smoother and I unchecked everything in the startup tab. Thanks guys. Oh, and I found spyware with ad-aware, spybot, and housecall, but no viruses. Thanks again.