[dba-Tech] Slow Dell

[John Colby]

Is that the same wealthy land baron that just emailed me to transfer $11.5
million into my bank account?😁


On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 12:36 PM John Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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 <
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> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > I get a lot of freeze ups that take a while to resolve. Sometimes I
> > get that "whatever isn't responding.." message.
> >
> >
> >
> > I use Edge because originally it was fast - not it crawls.
> >
> >
> >
> > I run MalwareBytes occasionally - it shows nothing.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> >
> > Susan H.
> >
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John W. Colby
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