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Boggin:
A bit of an explanation of what you are seeing under the Performance tab in Task Manager -

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/see-details-computers-performance-task-manager#1TC=windows-7

I haven't gone right into it because the only time I've ever had performance issues was when the Internet was crawling due to a line fault which was drastically reducing the SNR Margin.

With just gmail, the forum and Task Manager open, my CPU usage was jumping between 1 and 27% without any real fluctuation on the memory usage, but the processes can seem to be in a flux.

Lady:
Had a response from the Dutch forum and did some search scan. They told me to run this script:

emptyfolderscheck;delete
firefoxlook;
Chromelook;
autoclean;
iedefaults;

He says it was all kinds of malware. Now I have to run Delfix and install Unchecky.

Do you want to see the logs?

Boggin:
No, that's okay - just give me a summary of what they find or what those programs do.

Lady:
I don't know, I asked him but he didn't specify. I googled on Unchecky: it prevents software from installing unwanted extra programs by unchecking those. But I always pay attention to the things that are checked when downloading. I guess it's what they give as a rule to people who have PUPs.

I thought you'd know when you see the logs. I read every log but don't know what I'm seeing.

No slowness yet. Looks like we did it, Boggin! Tomorrow one final test by leaving the pc on the whole day.

Boggin:
Your helper will interpret the logs and suggest anything else if required.

Disinfecting is a specialised subject and there may be items it lists as being installed on your computer that the layman wouldn't recognise as malware, so I tend not to read through those on other forums, but sometimes follow their progress.

Is the machine staying stable even with your usual amount of tabs open ?

Getting rid of any dust bunnies from inside of the machine will have helped, but as you said the BIOS wasn't showing any high temps then overheating may not have been the problem.

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