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====== Slow PC ====== | ====== Slow PC ====== | ||
- | Slow PC is a symptom with many causes. Determining why the PC is slow requires analysis. | + | This page is going to be a "work in progress" |
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+ | ===== HD (Hard Drive) or SSD (Solid State Drive) and Slow PC ===== | ||
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+ | For many years PC's were delivered with a Hard Drive. The electrical mechanical components in a HD contribute significantly, | ||
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+ | ==== Experience says.... ==== | ||
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+ | It has been a couple of years since the Help Center started replacing HD with SSD, as a common practice, to resolve performance and/or broken HD issues. | ||
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+ | One is known as [[https:// | ||
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+ | An alternative is the set of scripts from [[https:// | ||
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+ | Using either of the scripts mentioned above implies the need to use a " | ||
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+ | ===== Analysis ===== | ||
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+ | Slow PC is a symptom with many causes. Determining why the PC is slow, requires analysis. The past few years of experience indicates..... | ||
If the PC will get to the point of letting you log in, then the next step might be: | If the PC will get to the point of letting you log in, then the next step might be: | ||
- | Observe what the PC is doing with the Task Manager. The Task Manager is like the dash board of a car. It can indicate what part of the PC is overheating or running low on resources. Here is some knowlege about [[https:// | + | Observe what the PC is doing with the [[https:// |
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+ | If you need to "drill down" or develop a deeper understanding of a single program, the [[https:// | ||
Things the Help Center volunteers frequently discover with the Task Manager are: | Things the Help Center volunteers frequently discover with the Task Manager are: | ||
- | - Multiple instances of antivirus programs. | + | - Multiple instances of antivirus programs. Typically they all want to do similar activities at system boot time, and the result is a lot of resource consumption that degrades the user experience. The typical solution is: uninstall the extra antivirus programs. |
- | - The system is configured to invoke/ | + | - The system is configured to invoke/ |
+ | - The Windows Task Manager also has a Tab labeled Startup, that allows enabling and disabling programs that start at boot time. | ||
+ | - The HD ( hard drive) stays very busy (100%) for several minutes after restart. | ||
===== How do you invoke the Task Manger? ===== | ===== How do you invoke the Task Manger? ===== | ||
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===== Now What? ===== | ===== Now What? ===== | ||
- | You should see something like this: //**I need to figure out how to capture and import an image**.// | + | You should see something like this: |
- | Make sure the " | + | // |
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+ | Make sure the " | ||
===== Tell Task Manager to sort on CPU or Disk ===== | ===== Tell Task Manager to sort on CPU or Disk ===== | ||
- | Clicking on the **CPU** | + | Clicking on the **CPU** |
- | Clicking on the **Disk** | + | Clicking on the **Disk** |
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+ | Most performance problems exhibit high disk consumption. Why? HD (Hard Drives) are most often the neck of the funnel, when it comes to getting something done on a computer. There are times when a computer does not have enough memory, and it starts " | ||
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+ | ===== Windows Resource Monitor ===== | ||
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+ | A next step in developing an understanding of "what is my computer doing" might include Windows Resource Monitor. Resource Monitor can provide more details about what resources an individual process is consuming. If you want to see all the servers that one web page needs, use Resource Monitor. The internet is truly a // | ||
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+ | Here is one item about [[https:// | ||
===== References: ===== | ===== References: ===== | ||
- | Do a google | + | Do a Google |
[[https:// | [[https:// | ||
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+ | An alternative to Windows Task Manager is [[https:// | ||
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