cwoolhouse
New Member
Hi,
Recently I've noticed my system becoming pretty sluggish when running more than a couple of apps (internet explorer, the odd game etc). I'm running a Vista Home Premium set up with a Pentium Dual Core 3GHZ chip and 2GB RAM which should have (and previously did have) more than enough grunt.
When I look at Task Manager after startup (with little running) I can see that the Physical Memory utilisation is up at 70-75% and in the performance tab, I have approx 4MB free (and the usage history graph is up at approx 1.5GB). I'm very experienced with pc's so I know about Vista's superfetching etc, but the system is dog slow.
I've disabled everything that I don't need at start up (as well as some services which I won't use). I've run AVG virus scan, Spybot and AdAware repeatedly, along with CCleaner and Disk Defrag. Security Task manager doesn't show me anything suspicious either. I've uninstalled anything that I won't need, and still it's running incredibly slow. The windows experience score is still at 4.8, so in theory the system is sound. I can't see what's utilising all of this memory in the Processes so I'm stuck.
Help!!
Chris.
Recently I've noticed my system becoming pretty sluggish when running more than a couple of apps (internet explorer, the odd game etc). I'm running a Vista Home Premium set up with a Pentium Dual Core 3GHZ chip and 2GB RAM which should have (and previously did have) more than enough grunt.
When I look at Task Manager after startup (with little running) I can see that the Physical Memory utilisation is up at 70-75% and in the performance tab, I have approx 4MB free (and the usage history graph is up at approx 1.5GB). I'm very experienced with pc's so I know about Vista's superfetching etc, but the system is dog slow.
I've disabled everything that I don't need at start up (as well as some services which I won't use). I've run AVG virus scan, Spybot and AdAware repeatedly, along with CCleaner and Disk Defrag. Security Task manager doesn't show me anything suspicious either. I've uninstalled anything that I won't need, and still it's running incredibly slow. The windows experience score is still at 4.8, so in theory the system is sound. I can't see what's utilising all of this memory in the Processes so I'm stuck.
Help!!
Chris.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- iQon
- CPU
- Intel Pentium D 3.00 GHz Dual Core
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte 945GZM-S2
- Memory
- 2.00 GB DDR
- Graphics card(s)
- NVidia GeForce 8600GT
- Sound Card
- On board
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Digimate 24" LCD display
- Screen Resolution
- 1680x1050 (native)
- Hard Drives
- 1 x 250GB Samsung Spinpoint (OS disk) 1 x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint (Data Storage)
- PSU
- Unknown
- Case
- Unknown
- Cooling
- Generic CPU fan - Temp is always lower than 30 degrees C
- Mouse
- Dell optical
- Keyboard
- Belkin Wireless
- Internet Speed
- 16MB Broadband
