[dba-Tech] Slow Dell

[John Bartow]

Good point. Just don't try to end tasks that consume all of the cpu because they're supposed to - like "System Idle Process". And often times there are processes that are set to run at high RAM or CPU because those are available and not being used. On low end laptops those can take a moment to cease when the actual use come on. 

These budget laptops are awful. I just had a (wealthy land Barron attorney) client bring me one that he "got on a good deal" that he bought for his wife. Poor wife. It's a POS. Came preloaded with McAfee (worthless crapware) on top of it. 

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From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces+jbartow=winhaven.net at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2021 12:09 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Slow Dell

Open the Task Manager and minimize it.  Then, when it slows, pop up the TM and see what's taking all the cpu cycles (when it hangs for a few seconds and restarts, I'll bet cpu usage is a 100%). Have it sort by CPU usage, greatest first. And if there's one or two processes hogging all the cycles, they'll float to the top of the list.

Also on the TM screen, click Startup and disable everything that's not necessary.

Finally, how much memory does this bad boy have?

Windows take a lot of memory. I have seven apps open and while none of them are taking any CPU cycles they do consume memory.

I use Edge and have a lot of pages open most of which Edge says are sleeping to save resources.  Edge still has 37 sub-processes going and is taking 1.5GB of my 12GB.

Windows is also running 86 background processes (most of which only take
1-20MB) and no cpu cycles at the moment.

Plus 99 WIndows processes, mostly small memory users and no cycles at the moment.

But any one of those processes could be the culprit.

If it's new there could be some crapware that's running.

Let us know what you find.

r

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 6:44 PM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a recently purchased Dell laptop - nothing fancy. It was fine 
> for a few weeks, but it has continued to slow down until I'm having 
> the same problems with the one I replaced.
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> I get a lot of freeze ups that take a while to resolve. Sometimes I 
> get that "whatever isn't responding.." message.
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> I use Edge because originally it was fast - not it crawls.
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> I run MalwareBytes occasionally - it shows nothing.
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> Any thoughts?
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> Susan H.
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