July 10th, 2020, 1:27 pm
July 10th, 2020, 4:14 pm
July 10th, 2020, 4:49 pm
David McGown wrote:In my experience, this occurs under the following conditions:
1. There is a high CPU demand by an application
2. If you are reading a large amount of data from harddrive.
3. If you are paging (swapping) to a harddrive, usually due to not having enough RAM.
4. You are installing an update or pulling alot of data across the network.
5. There is some process in startup or background that is hogging system resources.
6. You may be in the middle of a system scan (anti-virus or hard drive integrity/optimization)
There is an excellent tool at your disposal to help determine what is going on. It is called "Task Manager". Point your mouse at the taskbar and right click. You will get a menu and select "Task Manager"
This will give the current processes or applications that are running, the performance of the system in terms of CPU usage, memory usage, etc. Often, when a system is sluggish, you will see either the CPU utilization is very high, or the memory usage is high. It maintains a running history of load so you can see the effect over time.
Maxing out memory is pretty easy to remedy, just install more memory will take care of that. If you are running with 4 GB, then you may be under resourced and need to install more memory. 8GB for a Windows system is pretty much the standard recommendation these days. If the CPU is being maxxed out, then it is a program or process that is the issue.
David
July 10th, 2020, 5:44 pm
July 10th, 2020, 10:28 pm
July 10th, 2020, 10:37 pm
David McGown wrote:Walt,
I totally agree with you that Windows 7 Pro was SOLID, and it was a grievous mistake for Microsoft to obsolete it. Windows XP Pro was also a solid OS that I ran for years without any issues. Microsoft's movement to 64 bit environment has been full of problems, my company is still running 32 bit versions of some Microsoft applications since the 64-bit versions are problematic.
Having to support clients and dealing with their issues IS a frustrating challenge when the underlying system is a problem. I am just thankful I am on end-user end of the equation. I know I have had frustrating times in the past trying to provide tech support to family members running Windows systems, particularly my father who was in his mid 80's when I finally got frustrated and took away his Windows 8 machine (the worst ever!) and got him a Chromebook (which serves ALL of his needs). It was really bad with multiple anti-virus software installs battling out for dominance on his machine.
David
July 11th, 2020, 7:26 am
mix4fix wrote:Task manager only has the open program window. It does not show the other sections.
July 11th, 2020, 7:35 am
July 11th, 2020, 10:01 am
David McGown wrote:Getting back to the original issue after re-reading the first couple of posts. I think the likeliest reasons is Windows is either pulling down an update across a slow network, or performing disk maintenance at startup. When you reboot and interupt the process, it starts over again. Just be patient and let it complete.
David
July 12th, 2020, 1:12 pm