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(Solved) Desktop pc suddenly slow
Boggin:
It has been found that an AV program updating in the background can slow a machine down, but I think the only way to determine if EMET is conflicting with other software on your system would be to uninstall it.
Which browser are you using if not IE ?
Flash Player has recently been found to cause slow in Firefox and changing it to ask to activate has resolved.
Other than using CCleaner to clean the temp file cache which I use, there can sometimes be a lot in the Temp folder which it hasn't cleaned and you can check that by going Start - type %temp% and press enter.
For the most part, the size of the files are listed, but if you want to remove them - click on Organize - Select all - Organize - Delete - confirm - check the box then click on Skip.
There should only be two or three small ones at most remaining.
Unnecessary start up programs in msconfig can unnecessarily take up memory and if you are used to having a lot of tabs open, then there will be competition so to speak.
You don't really need anything in the Startup menu except your AV program if it is listed in there - sometimes it's listed under the the Services tab.
Anyway, go Start - type msconfig and press enter then under the Startup tab click on Disable all, but don't do that until you have uninstalled EMET because if it is listed in the Startup menu and it is disabled when you uninstall it - it will leave orphaned files and that entry will remain after the program has been uninstalled - and this applies to any program that is in the Startup menu.
Lady:
--- Quote from: Boggin on February 20, 2016, 03:18:32 pm ---It has been found that an AV program updating in the background can slow a machine down, but I think the only way to determine if EMET is conflicting with other software on your system would be to uninstall it.
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I think you are confusing EMET and ESET. ESET is an online scanner which can be used whenever necessary and updates at that moment. It is not an installed program and doesn't run in the background.
EMET is a Microsoft tool to help against vulnerabilities in the Windows software. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2458544
I'm still unsure whether EMET is really necessary. An IT person told me to use it. It only conflicts with Word sometimes. I think I'll make a new post just to ask about EMET.
--- Quote from: Boggin on February 20, 2016, 03:18:32 pm ---Flash Player has recently been found to cause slow in Firefox and changing it to ask to activate has resolved.
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Do I understand correctly that I have to change the Shockwave plugin into "ask to be activated"? I have it on "always activated". Do you recommend Flashplayer over Shockwave Player?
I ran through the Startup Menu a while ago with someone and I only have a few, like AV and Intel.
Today I have no problems with slowness again. Maybe it was just another temporary Windows Little Devil. We KNOW they exist. :cheesy:
Thank you, Boggin! Much appreciated once again.
Boggin:
No, I wasn't confusing anything.
The AV program that I was referring to that could have been updating in the background was for your Bullguard and then went onto mention EMET and I'm well aware of ESET, having used it a number of times myself.
Shockwave Flash is what Flash Player is called in Firefox, although there is also a Shockwave for Director which I've never understood the role of - while I have both Flash Player and Shockwave in IE.
You could change it to Ask to activate to see if you still get the intermittent slow as it could be one or more of the many windows you have open that is making the demands.
Lady:
--- Quote from: Boggin on February 21, 2016, 06:47:56 am ---You could change it to Ask to activate to see if you still get the intermittent slow as it could be one or more of the many windows you have open that is making the demands.
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Oh, now I understand! That's a good one anyway, I changed it. Didn't know that open tabs which haven't been opened to use on a new day, if you understand what I mean, are making any demands on the system.
The AV updating seems to me an unlikely cause as the slowness lasted so long while I was trying out things to solve it.
The number of open tabs I can understand. Still, it doesn't explain why on one particular day there was a huge slowness on every mouse click in every program and after a reboot everything was fine..... Really odd.
Lady:
The pc is slow again, in an increasingly worse way.
How much should the percentage of processor use in Task Manager be, ideally spoken?
I have open: Outlook e-mail program, Explorer, Firefox, Word, Energy Management, Task Manager, HW Monitor.
This is what I noticed: yesterday when everything was fine the processor use varied between 0 and 5 percent. When the pc now gets non-responsive, the processor use drops to 0% (see attachment). That may be obvious to you, but I don't know, maybe that helps. Is 0 to 5 percent not very little when it functions normally?
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