[nlug] Sluggish performance under Windows

[john]

I have an older, dual-boot laptop that is responsive when booted into Linux, but noticeably sluggish when booted into Windows 10. It has plenty of RAM, and I have virus-scanned it both from within Windows and from within Linux, without finding malware. Does anyone have a suggestion of how to find out what is hogging the CPU under Windows? It didn't use to be this sluggish under Windows.-- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com



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Re: [nlug] Sluggish performance under Windows

[Chris McQuistion]

It the sluggishness caused by the CPU?  You’d be able to see CPU usage in Task 
Manager. Could it be I/O issues causes by hard drive activity or a slow hard 
drive?  You can see that in Resource Manager. 

Chris

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> On Sep 17, 2020, at 8:04 AM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
> 
> 
> I have an older, dual-boot laptop that is responsive when booted into Linux, 
> but noticeably sluggish when booted into Windows 10. It has plenty of RAM, 
> and I have virus-scanned it both from within Windows and from within Linux, 
> without finding malware. Does anyone have a suggestion of how to find out 
> what is hogging the CPU under Windows? It didn't use to be this sluggish 
> under Windows.
> 
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Re: [nlug] Sluggish performance under Windows

[Csaba Toth]

Task manager is quite lame. Use Mark Russinovich's Process Explorer. It's a
Microsoft tool bc Mark joined MS. Doesn't need installation, download it
only from MS. It's also part of the sysinternals group of tools with which
you can monitor disk IO, network and registry activity in details as well -
to name a few.

Things like stupid DropBox's syncing can bog down a Windows. That was one
of the culprit for my wife's laptop. I also discovered that although my
fortified LEDE Wrt3200 ACM works with everything (including a dozen of
smart gadgets) my wife's laptop's wifi chip does not like it. So I wired a
lan cable to her, that helped in a major way. Lastly, it needs an internal
cleaning of fans and stuff, 4 years of gunk I think.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 7:27 AM Chris McQuistion 
wrote:

> It the sluggishness caused by the CPU?  You’d be able to see CPU usage in
> Task Manager. Could it be I/O issues causes by hard drive activity or a
> slow hard drive?  You can see that in Resource Manager.
>
> Chris
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 17, 2020, at 8:04 AM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
>
> 
> I have an older, dual-boot laptop that is responsive when booted into
> Linux, but noticeably sluggish when booted into Windows 10. It has plenty
> of RAM, and I have virus-scanned it both from within Windows and from
> within Linux, without finding malware. Does anyone have a suggestion of how
> to find out what is hogging the CPU under Windows? It didn't use to be this
> sluggish under Windows.
>
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Re: [nlug] Sluggish performance under Windows

[Csaba Toth]

I also use process explorer as a partial malware deterrent. Many malware
writers know that it's better not mess with developers. So I've seen
multiple malware code which does not infect if it senses the presence of
the process explorer, because that can be a precursor of a stubborn
developer like me and thus bad juju: one major goal for the malware is to
remain stealth. These codes are along the ones which try to disable various
anti virus products and auto update. Just sayin'

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:59 AM Csaba Toth  wrote:

> Task manager is quite lame. Use Mark Russinovich's Process Explorer. It's
> a Microsoft tool bc Mark joined MS. Doesn't need installation, download it
> only from MS. It's also part of the sysinternals group of tools with which
> you can monitor disk IO, network and registry activity in details as well -
> to name a few.
>
> Things like stupid DropBox's syncing can bog down a Windows. That was one
> of the culprit for my wife's laptop. I also discovered that although my
> fortified LEDE Wrt3200 ACM works with everything (including a dozen of
> smart gadgets) my wife's laptop's wifi chip does not like it. So I wired a
> lan cable to her, that helped in a major way. Lastly, it needs an internal
> cleaning of fans and stuff, 4 years of gunk I think.
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 7:27 AM Chris McQuistion 
> wrote:
>
>> It the sluggishness caused by the CPU?  You’d be able to see CPU usage in
>> Task Manager. Could it be I/O issues causes by hard drive activity or a
>> slow hard drive?  You can see that in Resource Manager.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2020, at 8:04 AM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
>>
>> 
>> I have an older, dual-boot laptop that is responsive when booted into
>> Linux, but noticeably sluggish when booted into Windows 10. It has plenty
>> of RAM, and I have virus-scanned it both from within Windows and from
>> within Linux, without finding malware. Does anyone have a suggestion of how
>> to find out what is hogging the CPU under Windows? It didn't use to be this
>> sluggish under Windows.
>>
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Re: [nlug] Sluggish performance under Windows

[Kent Perrier]

You can try https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater and see what
happens.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 3:12 PM Csaba Toth  wrote:

> I also use process explorer as a partial malware deterrent. Many malware
> writers know that it's better not mess with developers. So I've seen
> multiple malware code which does not infect if it senses the presence of
> the process explorer, because that can be a precursor of a stubborn
> developer like me and thus bad juju: one major goal for the malware is to
> remain stealth. These codes are along the ones which try to disable various
> anti virus products and auto update. Just sayin'
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:59 AM Csaba Toth  wrote:
>
>> Task manager is quite lame. Use Mark Russinovich's Process Explorer. It's
>> a Microsoft tool bc Mark joined MS. Doesn't need installation, download it
>> only from MS. It's also part of the sysinternals group of tools with which
>> you can monitor disk IO, network and registry activity in details as well -
>> to name a few.
>>
>> Things like stupid DropBox's syncing can bog down a Windows. That was one
>> of the culprit for my wife's laptop. I also discovered that although my
>> fortified LEDE Wrt3200 ACM works with everything (including a dozen of
>> smart gadgets) my wife's laptop's wifi chip does not like it. So I wired a
>> lan cable to her, that helped in a major way. Lastly, it needs an internal
>> cleaning of fans and stuff, 4 years of gunk I think.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 7:27 AM Chris McQuistion <
>> chris.mcquist...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It the sluggishness caused by the CPU?  You’d be able to see CPU usage
>>> in Task Manager. Could it be I/O issues causes by hard drive activity or a
>>> slow hard drive?  You can see that in Resource Manager.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Sep 17, 2020, at 8:04 AM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> I have an older, dual-boot laptop that is responsive when booted into
>>> Linux, but noticeably sluggish when booted into Windows 10. It has plenty
>>> of RAM, and I have virus-scanned it both from within Windows and from
>>> within Linux, without finding malware. Does anyone have a suggestion of how
>>> to find out what is hogging the CPU under Windows? It didn't use to be this
>>> sluggish under Windows.
>>>
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