TheRealMrGrey
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[Note: having used XP up until now, I have very little vista knowledge.]
I have a Dell inspiron 1420 running Vista that often and randomly goes to 100% cpu for ~30-120 seconds. If you open task manager and look at what process is doing this, it shows that only a few processes are using the cpu, none above 10%, and not enough to add up to 100%.
I've done google searches on this but have come up with nothing. It is very odd. It is not a RAM issue, the Dell has 3 GB but is only using 1.4 GB. (Is 1.4 GB a typical usage in Vista?)
Is there a program that can log very specific processor usage that has more info than task manager?
Internet Explorer also runs very slow on this computer, taking about 10-20 seconds to load any new window. One problem is that it says "Telstra Big-Pond Internet Explorer" at the top of every IE window. Big-Pond is a wireless internet service run by Telstra, which is the major phone/internet provider in Australia. I temporarily needed wireless service through this company while in Australia, and had to install their software. I have since uninstalled it, but the slowness issue more or less started around the same time as I installed this software.
I have done the following things, which have not helped:
- Defragged
- Scanned for viruses
- Scanned for malware using adaware
- Gone through every startup process and disable all that I believe are unnecessary
- Gone through every non-windows service and disabled all that are unnecessary
I have also searched the registry for "telstra" and "big-pond" and have found a few entries left over that were not uninstalled. Is it a good idea to simply delete these entries, or should I use some kind of *freeware* to search for remnants of not-fully uninstalled programs?
Any tips are appreciated, thanks.
I have a Dell inspiron 1420 running Vista that often and randomly goes to 100% cpu for ~30-120 seconds. If you open task manager and look at what process is doing this, it shows that only a few processes are using the cpu, none above 10%, and not enough to add up to 100%.
I've done google searches on this but have come up with nothing. It is very odd. It is not a RAM issue, the Dell has 3 GB but is only using 1.4 GB. (Is 1.4 GB a typical usage in Vista?)
Is there a program that can log very specific processor usage that has more info than task manager?
Internet Explorer also runs very slow on this computer, taking about 10-20 seconds to load any new window. One problem is that it says "Telstra Big-Pond Internet Explorer" at the top of every IE window. Big-Pond is a wireless internet service run by Telstra, which is the major phone/internet provider in Australia. I temporarily needed wireless service through this company while in Australia, and had to install their software. I have since uninstalled it, but the slowness issue more or less started around the same time as I installed this software.
I have done the following things, which have not helped:
- Defragged
- Scanned for viruses
- Scanned for malware using adaware
- Gone through every startup process and disable all that I believe are unnecessary
- Gone through every non-windows service and disabled all that are unnecessary
I have also searched the registry for "telstra" and "big-pond" and have found a few entries left over that were not uninstalled. Is it a good idea to simply delete these entries, or should I use some kind of *freeware* to search for remnants of not-fully uninstalled programs?
Any tips are appreciated, thanks.
