I came back home after 6 months of work trip and found that the desktop is waaaay slower than it was before. At first I thought it was all the update process that slowed it down, but the 2nd day of using it it is still very sluggish at times - namely when I open up a few applications (e.g. Live Messenger, Chrome (3 - 4 tabs), Norton Security) at the same time. I don't have many programs installed on the computer because I just upgraded it to Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit so I'm pretty sure that there ain't a lot of background services running. I'm pretty low on RAM though (only 2GB), but looking at the CPU/RAM gadget it seems that I'm reaching 80-90% CPU load - which looks more like the problem to me.
I'm wondering if adding more RAM would help? Or would it be some other problems that I'm facing? My laptop's specs are worse than this desktop but I never had such sluggish response in the past year...
Thanks in advance!!
This is my desktop specs:
Win7 Home Premium 64-bit (Genuine)
Intel Core 2 E6420 @ 2.13GHz
2GB RAM
nVidia GeForce 7600GT 1G
2 SATA 500GB Hard disks
Desktop experiencing sluggish response... Will adding RAM help when CPU load @ 70-90%?
2010-05-20 4:15 pm
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2010-05-20 4:29 pm
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You mentioned the CPU load but you did not mention the "Memory usage"You say you are running with 2Gb of RAM in your machine... I am "using" 2.4Gb of the 8Gb installed in my machine. Same OS.
If it has been shut off for the past six months I would tend to think that there are a lot of security updates, etc that need to be loaded.
Also your Norton Internet Security needs to update all its files.
As a recommendation, for your Win7 64bit Intel dual-core 2Gb RAM computer
At the very least, double the amount of RAM you have in your system.
As far as the CPU running at 80-90%, check to see what processes are currently using the CPU
2010-05-20 11:22 pm
As you know, you'll be happier with more memory in general, but the issues you're experience aren't from a lack of memory. I'd say chances are you've got some nasty infections, or you're running something (possibly an antivirus?) that's killing your system. I'd recommend completely wiping your system and installing a fresh version of Windows. Though, you should know there's no real benefit to the 64-bit version of windows until you get over 3 GB of memory in that system (the memory addressing benefits start when you hit 4 GB of total memory in your system, including your video cards memory).
If you don't want to do something that drastic, try running malwarebytes, superantispyware, and then ccleaner.
If you don't want to do something that drastic, try running malwarebytes, superantispyware, and then ccleaner.
2010-05-20 11:17 pm
no, this problem is with the processor. there are a few causes for this but the most likely cause is you have picked up some malware on your travels and it is running in the background.
try installing malwarebytes, and then booting into safemode and running some scans.
try installing malwarebytes, and then booting into safemode and running some scans.
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