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I haven't had this kind of sluggishness for years - I've a quad-core PC with 4Gb RAM running Windows7 and it's normally fine but sometimes just bogs right down... windows stop responding for a few seconds, hard drive chugging away, etc.
However I note my idle CPU never drops below about 90% when this is going on - I feared some malicious process.
Should I be worried something nasty is avoiding my AV software, or is there some other maintenance I can do? I note Eclipse and Chrome are the two apps which seem most slug-like in case it's relevant.
You mention "hard drive chugging away", could this be the bottleneck? – John U – 2013-02-26T09:25:30.023
If the CPU is fine, what does the Resource Monitor tells you about the apps memory use?
– Silver Quettier – 2013-02-26T09:28:13.1772
I would check the harddrive is OK. Download for free the Acronis Disk Monitor (SMART tool). I would also check to see what is running at start up (via MSCONFIG) and also if anything is being started via Task Scheduler.
– Dave – 2013-02-26T09:29:38.213What AV are you using? – gronostaj – 2013-02-26T10:15:53.287
When this happens, which processes actually consume CPU time? Task Manager will tell you. Note that you may need to
Show processes from all users
to see the culprit in theProcesses
tab. – a CVn – 2013-02-27T12:29:57.367As I said, 90%+ is marked as "system idle" so no processes appear to be doing it. Unless I misunderstand your question. – Mr. Boy – 2013-02-27T15:40:42.360
So, any luck with the SMART tool? – Dave – 2013-03-01T12:44:14.730
Did the options help? – Back2Basics – 2013-11-14T06:05:50.783