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(Solved) Desktop pc suddenly slow
Boggin:
Did you have a look on your desktop for the CBS icon after executing that cmd ?
I wonder if running Disk Cleanup as an admin would clean up the WinSXS folder...
Do you have the free version of CCleaner installed - you can do a registry clean up with that and that may find those remnants from when you deleted those sample music files - but I don't think they will be cause of your slow.
Prior to running the registry clean with CCleaner, uncheck the box for ActiveX and Class Issues.
Lady:
It was under sfcdeetails on my desktop. See attachment.
I did a CCleaner registry, see post #50.
I'll leave the pc on for the whole day, see if the slowness returns.
I still have to close more tabs in Firefox. That could still be it, couldn't it? Is it true that using Firefox and other programs more and more during several hours uses up more and more memory?
After the outcome on the Dutch forum, I opt for a WR.
First now I'm going to clean the case.
Boggin:
The sfc /scannow certainly found quite a lot to repair.
Yes, the more you use Firefox or whatever will build up the temp files and when you continue it can struggle to find more to use.
When you use both IE and FF and then run CCleaner to clear the cache, you will see that FF is a much heavier user than IE, although from your TM pics, I wouldn't have thought it that excessive to slow a machine to a crawl - but while I have FF installed, I only use it to trouble shoot IE so haven't used it excessively to experience any depreciation of performance.
With your Startup items in msconfig mainly devoid of any programs to use up memory, I don't know why it is using so much but you could try disabling the MBAMs in services to see what that effect has on your memory usage, but it's the intermittent nature of yours that is puzzling as you haven't always had this problem - have you ?
I've had to clean out one of my sister's laptops because it was crawling but she wasn't aware that a laptop isn't maintenance free and the %temp% folder was chocka with about 3GB of temp files, plus she had picked up some adware that was preventing IE from working which had also taken out her audio.
Lady:
Phewwww, it's still working after cleaning the case! :cheesy: Quite some dust there.
That was kinda scary. Doing something new on/with the pc for the first time is always scary for me!
My pc is happy with me. It's nice and clean now on the physical inside.
I don't use IE at all. Just FF.
What I now think has happened - correct me if I'm wrong - is that some adware corrupted files and prevented IE from opening and was also responsible for at least part of the slowness, don't you think? The rest of the slowness could be just a result of free memory being used up by so many things running. That doesn't explain the slowness I experienced at start-up sometimes, but that hasn't happened anymore, so that could have been the adware. Just a few weeks ago I told someone I was so happy that I didn't have to spend time on fixing pc issues anymore! I suppose the adware came in around that time. And it's true that I created more and more tabs lately. Not enough time to get things done...
Can you explain why AdwCleaner caught something that MBAM and BullGuard both overlooked? I mean, (bad) adware is malware, right? How often do you use AdwCleaner?
I'll close more tabs one of these days. That has to be done anyway. It's ridiculous to keep them open just as reminders, hahaha.
I have another idea. I will reboot and make a pic of TM. Then I'll leave it on and won't touch the pc for a few hours and see if the memory drops.
Lady:
Two pics: TM just after reboot, with nothing opened, and TM after 2.5 hours, without having done anything on the pc.
Is this useful info for you? Or more of the same, I'm not sure. :confused:
I'm trying to understand this. So the cache was filled by all the processes running in the background? Is that how it's supposed to be?
No slowness yet.....
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