Thank you to all who replied.
I spent over an hour on trying to figure this out.
I opened the Event Viewer and discovered the system was using 94% of
memory and 100% of the disk in idle mode.
This computer is running Windows 10 pro with 4GB of ram and and 4 cores
and 4 threads. Is has a rust spinner.
This is my wife's computer and she uses it for limited email, some
google searching, and mostly to watch YouTube. This computer gets used
very little.
It has been slow from the beginning.
One of the issues was once the computer went into sleep mode it would
take forever to wake up so I turned off sleep mode.
What I found was hundreds of things running in the background. Not sure
why and it was unclear what was the memory hog.
I was puzzled what was going on with the HD. Disk properties showed
825GB of 915GB free. I tried to scan and it said the disk had issues.
So I let it troubleshoot and it fixed it in about 10 minutes. It did not
report what the actual issue was.
I monkeyed with the background processes and got the memory usage down
to 86%.
I know next to nothing about managing windows so I do not want to monkey
with it much more.
At this point I am thinking of creating a reinstall disk or USB and
while I'm at it instating a SSD. Newegg has some really good deals on
SSD.
Since this is a Dell computer I suspect the Win install will not
complain about the different HD.
Will an OEM install require a key?
Any thoughts are most welcome.
Keith
On 2023-07-07 17:06, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Thank you so much!! Might be a couple days before I can work on it
again. I'll let you know how things go.
On 2023-07-07 15:40, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Task manager and/or Resource Manager should show you where your
bottlenecks lie, but sounds like either disk (spinner vs ssd), memory,
or cpu is getting pegged. This should show you what processes are
using said cpu/memory/io, either kill them, or feed them more hardware
resources. The sysinternals tools like process explorer and such are
also helpful in seeing applications and/or system processes freaking
out, including more hidden ones.
If still a spinner disk, the best thing you could do is get her any
SSD to run the OS and primary apps on alone.
Could be windoze is just trashed after a while with applications
coming and going, upgrading, breaking stuff, etc. Might be worth
trying a clean restore of the system and/or wiping the disks with
zero's to reset state ala fragmentation or if ssd, needing a reset
with secure erase.
-mb
On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 2:29 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Hi,
This is mostly off topic given this is a Linux List.
I have two separate work areas in my house. I have my home office
which
is doing well. I am using my Linux Ubuntu desktop to send this
email.
My Linux machine is hardwired. This is my main box. I also have a
Win
10 Pro laptop that I use to make and edit YouTube videos. My
editing
software only works on Win and MAC. This laptop is connected via
WIFI.
No Problems. The O/S loads reasonably fast. My video editing
software
loads reasonably fast and the rendering process takes a bit but not
too
bad. This is a 6 year old HP - nothing fancy and it works.
My wife's office in another spare bedroom and she has a Dell
mini-tower
Win 10 ... I want to say pro as well.
Here is where I need help. My wife's dell is very slow and has
trouble
with loading Firefox and it takes a while to load YouTube videos.
Even
windows takes a while to load which make me think it is a local
problem
(the Dell box).
I am reaching out because I do not know how to troubleshoot this
issue.
Any help much appreciated.
Keith
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