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Win7 running slow ... tried all of the obvious things already

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tvrboy

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My Windows 7 machine (1 year old) is running a bit slow. The bootup times are much longer than when I purchased the computer, it just seems to multi-task a bit more slowly. I tried all the regular things to clean up Windows:

-Regular virus scan/removal (I use USB drives to take PPT to class computers, it's unavoidable that I get a ton of virii on them) with AVG Free, Malwarebytes Pro, and 360 安全
-Active monitoring with AVG Free
-Regularly use CCleaner to clean up temporary and garbage files
-Auto disk defrag (0% fragmented as of today)
-Removed all crapware and bloatware
-nothing running in the background except AVG

Is there anything else I can try? I suspect that I have some lingering malware, but the 3 AV programs I use all give my computer a clean bill of health. I dunno what else to do...
 
Open task manager. Click processes tab. Click the button that shows all processes from all users. Go to the view menu, click Select Columns. Enable the cpu time column. After the computer has been running for a few hours, take a screenshot. Post it here.
 
probably not much help but:
msconfig and disable unneeded startup programs (adobe speed launcher, google update, quicktime, etc)
although you could also use ccleaner for that

malwarebytes pro and avg both have active guards, i guess you already disabled malwarebytes' though.

other than that, formatting is the way to go
or get an SSD 😛

the more stuff you put on a disk drive, the slower it gets
when it's almost empty its @~100% and when its almost full its @~50% performance (estimates based on standard disk characteristics)
 
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sm625 said:
Open task manager. Click processes tab. Click the button that shows all processes from all users. Go to the view menu, click Select Columns. Enable the cpu time column. After the computer has been running for a few hours, take a screenshot. Post it here.
Click to expand...

Sorry i left my own thread, been super busy here. Here it is:

I have already disabled Kies and PPS from running in the background, 8021x is something I need on all the time, and zhudongfangyu is also a legit program. Maybe you can advise on the others...
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List of installed programs:

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1. use ATF Cleaner to clean all the temp folders.
2. use Hijackthis to see and clear unnecessary startup programs and services.

What kind of processor, ram & harddisk you have?
 
You have 11 instances of Chrome going. Try uninstalling chrome using Revo Uninstaller, then install the latest version or switch to firefox. If you never use search, turn off search indexing. You might try switching from AVG to MSE or Avast. Some of your programs appear to be in Chinese, or Japanese, I guess that you know that. They don't appear to be using much memory though. Some of the other programs are unfamiliar to me, if you trust them and use them fine. If this does not help then TemjinGold is probably right.
 
Wow one of those instances of chrome has logged 6 hours of cpu time. What is it doing? Have you left some flash game running for 3 days?
 
jsalpha2 said:
You have 11 instances of Chrome going. Try uninstalling chrome using Revo Uninstaller, then install the latest version or switch to firefox.
Click to expand...

Can't see much sense in that, Firefox tends to use more memory than Chrome anyway.
Reinstalling Chrome won't do any good, it has clever automated updating built in it, so it is most likely the latest, and the 11 instances of it are i bet, intentional...
 
Thanks for the good advice. I've identified and blocked many autorun programs. To answer your question, I have an N73jq with Core i7 740QM, 6 GB RAM, and Hitachi 5400 rpm hard disc...had to find a new HD in an electronics bazaar in China...this was what I ended up with. No money for an SSD now. If I understand fralexander correctly, I should wipe the free space on my HDD. Would that help?

Regarding Chrome, I was running about 6 or 7 tabs that time. Guilty as charged....But I noticed that even when I have 2 or 3 tabs, it shows 6 or 7 instances of Chrome in the task manager. Is this normal?

I have downloaded Hijack This, it seems very useful. However, I'm not sure which things in my scan results, if any, I should "fix." Also, it says write access to my host file is denied. No idea what that means. Results:
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See Task Manager, how many processes you see after restart and how much memory is used?
Everything else looks to be alright, your computer specs look very good, except the harddrive.
Get SSD as soon as possible 🙂
 
Your problem is the CPU is idle waiting on that cassette tape device you call a hard drive, along with crappy software like anti virus and auto updates that were written with no regard for random disk IO performance and never lays off the constant file system accesses.

Run an iPod with 20,000 songs on cassette on random shuffle and see how not awesome it is.

Mechanical data storage devices are terrible terrible filthy things. Ill cut my own @#$% off before I ever use one again voluntarily.

Use Process Explorer and show IO delta to see instantaneous IO and you'll see.
 
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