Hello all. I have noticed my PC is running really...sl..ow..l..yyyyyy....late..ly. I've also noticed that media player is randomly stopping, my RAM and CPU are almost ALWAYS clocked at near 75-100% usage. I've tried defragmenting, CCleaning [I prefer CCleaner over Disk Cleanup as it gets more than the Disk Cleanup tool does], really everything. I don't have any viruses at all, I had a scan with avast! AND Microsoft Security Essentials. According to Piriform Speccy, my specs: - Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit SP1 - CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz Wolfdale 45nm Technology - Motherboard: ASUSTek Computer INC. P5E (LGA775) - Graphics: E1941 (1366x768@60Hz) 896MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 (ASUStek Computer Inc) - Hard Drives: 298GB Seagate ST3320820AS ATA Device (SATA) - Optical Drives: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-215 ATA Device - Audio: High Definition Audio Device ----------------------- According to Control Panel, my programs (ones with a * I plan on uninstalling as they're useless to me): Adobe Systems (1) Adobe Acrobat XI Pro Adobe Systems Incorporated (10) Adobe AIR Adobe Flash Player 12 ActiveX Adobe Flash Player 12 Plugin Adobe Media Player* Adobe Dreamweaver CC Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe InDesign CC Adobe Illustrator CC Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.3 Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX* Adobe Systems Incorporated. (1) Adobe Widget Browser* Adobe Systems, Inc. (2) Adobe Shockwabe Player 11.6* Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX* Apple Inc. (8) iCloud Apple Mobile Device Support Apple Application Support Apple Software Update Bonjour QuickTime iTunes Safari* Audacity Team (1) Audacity 2.0.5 Avast Software (1) avast! Free Antivirus AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o (1) Visual Studio 2012 x86 Redistributables *uninstalling as I have the exact same thing under Microsoft BitTorrent Inc. (1) uTorrent CamStudio Open Source (1) CamStudio version 2.7 David Gill (1) PearPC Control Panel* Fisher-Price, Inc. (1) The Digital Arts And Crafts Studio* (kids dont use it anymore) Florian Heidenreich (1) Mp3tag v2.58 Google (1) Nik Collection Google Inc. (1) Google Chrome WinAero (1) TakeOwnershipEx June Fabrics Technology Inc (1) PdaNet+ for Android 4.15 Microsoft Corporation (22) Microsoft Security Essentials Microsoft Office Click-to-Run 2010* Microsoft Project Professional 2013 Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 Microsoft Visio Professional 2013 Windows Essentials 2012 Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x86) - 11.0.51106 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 Microsoft OneDrive Windows XP Mode* Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable (x86) - 9.0.30729.4148 Photo Story 3 for Windows* Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Bing Desktop* Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.6161 Bing Bar* Skype Click to Call Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition [ENU]* Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable - 10.0.40219 Motus Software Ltd (1) Pivot Animator version 4.1.10 Mozilla (2) Mozilla Firefox 27.0.1 (x86 en-US) Mozilla Maintenance Service Notepad++ Team (1) Notepad++ NVIDIA Corporation (6) NVIDIA 3D Vision nDriver 331.82* NVIDIA Graphics Driver 331.82 NVIDIA GeForce Experience 1.7.1* (useless crapware) NVIDIA 3D Vision Controller Driver 331.82* NVIDIA PhysX System Software 9.13.0725 NVIDIA Virtual Audio 1.2.9* (WTF Is this??) Oracle (2) Java(TM) 7 Update 5* Java 7 Update 51* Oracle Corporation (1) Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.8 Piriform (4) CCleaner Defraggler Recuva Speccy Power Software Ltd (1) PowerISO Punk Software (2) RocketDock 1.3.5* UberIcon 1.0.4* Skype Technologies S.A. (1) Skype™ 6.1.3 Tor Lillqvist (1) GTK+ 2.10.13 runtime environment VideoLAN (1) VLC media player 2.1.0 VMware, Inc (1) VMware Player win.rar GmbH (1) WinRAR 5.01 (32-bit) Unspecified (4) 7-Zip 9.20 FFmpeg v0.6.2 for Audacity LAME v3.99.3 (for Windows) PearPC Virtualbox Gui* ------------------- I've also noticed while browsing through my updates I found 3 repeats of Security Update for Microsoft Excel (KB2827238) and Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2827227)! The screenie is attached. ------------------ Now please don't say "Your computer sucks" or "it has too little ram for windows 7" or "your processor is sooo old" or "your hard drive is too tiny" because this computer has been running fine just like this for just under 2 years. THANKS TO ANYONE WHO CAN HELP ME. I AM BEGGING!
Press Ctrl Alt Del and start the task manager , bottom of the list that pops up. and examine both the list of applications and of processes to see which one is gobbling up your resources That should give you some ideas of what to remove. ...T
See Avast, AVG and MSE being installed, in case they are all running i get a clue why your system is slow ... .
hey man why 3 antivirus???? keep only one. and why u torrent and bit torrent together when functionality is same.
No offense, but your computer needs to go on a diet. Two versions of WinRAR plus 7-Zip, why? VMWare, VMWare Player and Virtual Box, why? Adding ram may help. (Perhaps I missed it - don't see memory listed).
I also suggest you unninstall two of your virus checkers and install Malwarebytes and run it to do system scan. Personally I only have Avast Free and malwarebytes. And some house keeping is needed to remove software not needed.
Post a screen dump of what you see when you right-click on a folder/file. I'll bet your Context Menu is two or three columns. (Yeah, I know, this doesn't help the OP in any way. I'm just curious).
Another thing to check is what is being loaded at startup. What Windows shows isn't all of them. SysInternals has a very good utility for showing exactly what loads when you start up your computer. It's called AutoRuns. Not only does it show what's loaded at startup, it shows everything that is loaded. Be careful with it, there is not error checking. Best to first un-check suspicious entries, before deleting them. Can't post links yet, but sysinternals dot com will get you there. Might as well get the entire SysInternals suite. Originally started by Mark Russinovich and later acquired by Microsoft. Lots of good utilities.
You don't only need to unistall u need a good system optimizer as well. Go for Advanced system care and don't uninstall apps using controlpanel use advanced system care to uninstall the programs as it also cleans all softwares from its root. and u should give it a try u will surely feel the difference
Advanced system care another so called optimiser, probably cause it is free 39.8 MB and likely full of adware. You don't need to uninstall duplicate programs As Palladin mentioned a lot of things could be running from windows startup those can really slow down a system when booting into windows As for Advanced system care I use Revo Uninstaller Pro 10.1 MB but same scenario you need to know what you are selecting when it is uninstalling software, and registry settings Unless you have actually installed using it and it has monitored installation.
You could also take a "slow & painful" solution - reinstall Windows 7 and reinstall your programs, starting with what you can't live without. You may find yourself done sooner than you thought, with a lot less worthless treasures.
on top of what everyone here said with deleting alot of stuff off after you are done with that try running slimcleaner. i love using that programs for all PC cleanups i do.
Me too use revo for unistalling but there are many computer users that r not that much advanced user so i recommend ASC because it is easy to use and it has all tools for normal computer users for cleaning their PC and making it easier to manage pc more effectively
"clocked at near 75-100% usage" -> virus just install new os on vhd, with easybcd add to boot menu and boot to it and see if there still problem properly but if u wanna be sure GL
99% of software like this can actually make Windows worse. Registry cleaning, internet speed increases etc. They're all features advertised to the average PC user to try to get them to use the software. It's all BS that can ruin your system though. Uninstall the software suggested in other posts, run something like CCleaner to remove old junk files and then defragment the drive with something like Auslogics Disk Defrag portable (defrag + optimize).
This. Installed programs don't slow you down, things running in background do. If your system drive is completely filled to the point Windows can't "breath" and do its job it will run slower. Can you defrag the system drive? If defrag fails to run, that's one clue your system disk is too full. I like mine to never go beyond 80% filled. One AV is enough. I have seen multiple AV programs conflict with each other. Same for firewalls. A good program to use to stop programs from running at start up is autoruns. Start up programs can be both stopped and started with autoruns.
start first with uninstalling all but one antivirus, then check performance. I'd suggest a fresh install with only one of each type of software. In this case less is better.