Shutdown question

[Craig234]

After my Win 7 PC runs several hours, it starts to get disk intensive and slow. If I want to speed it up, it's a reboot. I'm looking at increasing RAM to avoid this.

But in the meantime a question:

I have dozens of IE tabs open. After a reboot, I like to use 'restore session' to bring them back. But if I shut down the OS, it won't do it.

Only if I power off the PC to shut it down - then the 'restore sessions' is available.

But I suspect that may be risking problems, such as to the hardware, especially the SSD, so is there a better way?

 

[denis280]

increasing ram would be best.i am using tuneup utility with photoshop.and it works perfect.with live optimisation.

 

[MontyAC]

You can install this to free up your memory usage:

http://www.pcwintech.com/cleanmem

 

[Craig234]

You can install this to free up your memory usage:

http://www.pcwintech.com/cleanmem

Thanks; I'm a bit concerned it says it runs every 15 minutes.

I tested and the IE explorer restore session does work if you run it before new tabs.

 

[Craig234]

dp

 

[paul878]

Just get more memory, it is cheap enough these day.
I have 16g and only shut them computer down when I absolutely have to.

 

[Steltek]

What are the specs of your system? What percentage of free space is available on your SSD (SSDs tend to slow and are far less effective the fuller they get)?

 

[Obie327]

Sounds like a problem I had with buddies rig. IE explorer would gobble up all the memory and then some. I switched him to Firefox and problem was gone for good..Some kind of memory leak glitch. I don't use Internet explorer anymore. Sorry to not have any details for a fix in IE. Maybe the new version 10 might fix if you want to stay with IE. Good luck

 

[Craig234]

Both my boot 80gb SSD and 1tb hard drive are close to full, but have a few gig free.

At some point I want to get the 256gb ssd and 3tb hd installed.

 

[Steltek]

Both my boot 80gb SSD and 1tb hard drive are close to full, but have a few gig free.

At some point I want to get the 256gb ssd and 3tb hd installed.

It very well could be the SSD's garbage collection process running as the Windows page file expands and takes up more of the limited space on the SSD.

 

[5630ledbulb]

tenichal problems

 

[Charlie98]

Both my boot 80gb SSD and 1tb hard drive are close to full, but have a few gig free.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say this is your problem...

Define 'a few gig free.'

 

[bononos]

After my Win 7 PC runs several hours, it starts to get disk intensive and slow. If I want to speed it up, it's a reboot. I'm looking at increasing RAM to avoid this.

But in the meantime a question:

I have dozens of IE tabs open. After a reboot, I like to use 'restore session' to bring them back. But if I shut down the OS, it won't do it.

Only if I power off the PC to shut it down - then the 'restore sessions' is available.

But I suspect that may be risking problems, such as to the hardware, especially the SSD, so is there a better way?

Did you check to see if you're running out of system resources like memory?

 

[Craig234]

It very well could be the SSD's garbage collection process running as the Windows page file expands and takes up more of the limited space on the SSD.

page file seems pretty constant around 12gb.

 

[Craig234]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say this is your problem...

Define 'a few gig free.'

3gb on C:, 5gb on e:.

A few gig free.

 

[Matt1970]

3gb on C:, 5gb on e:.

A few gig free.

On an 80 Gig drive with only 3GB free running Windows 7 you are going to have problems.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Have you used Task Manager or Resource Monitor to determine if disk I/O or RAM is being exhausted? Or if your CPU time is pinned?

 

[cubby1223]

Sounds like a problem I had with buddies rig. IE explorer would gobble up all the memory and then some. I switched him to Firefox and problem was gone for good..Some kind of memory leak glitch. I don't use Internet explorer anymore. Sorry to not have any details for a fix in IE. Maybe the new version 10 might fix if you want to stay with IE. Good luck

Don't blame IE for what most likely is someone else's add-on. Countless times someone has complained of IE not working well, I go in remove all toolbars, all helper objects, then reinstall the basics, flash, reader, & java, and voila! IE is running perfect again.

 

[cubby1223]

Adding more memory to a system only helps if the memory usage of the system is near or above the physical ram in the machine. Besides, if there is something slowly eating up memory, buying more ram is not solving the problem, it's just giving you longer length of time until the system slows down.

As mentioned before, the immediate possibility is the hard drive space, need more free space.

Also a general tip, disable windows updates, delete the softwaredistribution folder, then re-enable windows updates, often helps speed up machines when system gets cluttered. May not be your fix, but it's good to do once in a while regardless.

 

[Matt1970]

Don't blame IE for what most likely is someone else's add-on. Countless times someone has complained of IE not working well, I go in remove all toolbars, all helper objects, then reinstall the basics, flash, reader, & java, and voila! IE is running perfect again.

Toolbars are evil.

 

[Craig234]

It seems inconsistent. A couple times, a restart allowed re-opening the tabs in IE.

Tonight, I restarted, played WoT a bit just like before, opened no browser windows then started IE and it would only open one tab from the last session.

So it's unreliable.

 

[bononos]

3gb on C:, 5gb on e:.

A few gig free.

Assuming your pc is not paging and you have enough memory (check to see the amount of free and available memory in task manager - what is it???), the small amount of spare disk space might hurt browsing especially with lots of open windows because the temporary files for windows (and IE) are squeezed in and competing for a tiny amount of disk space.