Work Computers Slowdowns

[Eureka]

So, I have a fairly recent work computer (with all the good enterprise software on it). It's an Elitebook with an i5-520M and 3GB of RAM.

Trying to figure out what is causing slowdowns on the computer, especially with certain websites. Certain websites run fine, such as anandtech and hardforum. However, certain websites will cause extremely laggy response, such as newegg and overclock.net. Even large wikipedia pages can become unresponsive. I'm assuming it has something to do with the scripts on the webpage and IE7, but is there anything I can do to make the computer work like it should. There's no reason why wikipedia should slow down the computer so much.

 

[Smoove910]

Try Google Chrome and see if the problem persists?

 

[Eureka]

Work computer, so IE7 only. Nothing but the best here.

 

[sm625]

Procmon shows that Newegg home page does over 10000 individual accesses to the C: drive within a 1 second period. Most of these accesses are to the browser cache. But there are other locations that get hit at the same time. Corporate antivirus basically doubles all those accesses. If there's any fragmentation, the delays add up quick. Especially on a notebook HDD where seek times are atrocious. That's why we say get an SSD.

 

[paul878]

Work computer, so IE7 only. Nothing but the best here.

Call Help Desk, you don't want to mess with your work computer yourself.

 

[Eureka]

Calling help desk means taking an hour out of the day... I was hoping it was some simple optimization problem. I don't understand why Wikipedia should slow down.

It could be the hard drive, however this was a new notebook (albeit sitting in storage for 2 years, probably). I did notice, with task manager open, I could see that whenever it slowed down, one of of the 4 threads would spike up to around 100%, while the other ones were sitting pretty low. Total, CPU utilization is 27% but I assume it's skewed towards one thread.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Check the processes tab and see which process is hogging the CPU.