Slow Windows Box

2023-07-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
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

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-07 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
Event Viewer will show application issues On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 02:29:26 PM MST, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss 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 Li

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-07 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
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 sysinterna

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Thanks!! On 2023-07-07 14:43, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote: Event Viewer will show application issues On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 02:29:26 PM MST, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: Hi, This is mostly off topic given this is a Linux List. I have two separate work areas in my house.

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
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)

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
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 rus

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
Well that's about what I was expecting you'd see... First, start with getting her more memory, I'm amazed it'll even run and start a browser with only 4gb of ram. Firefox/Chrome alone uses a good 8-20gb of ram at a time for my normal usage, anything else will just sit in swap/pagefile (which is w

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2023-07-13 10:03, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: Well that's about what I was expecting you'd see... First, start with getting her more memory, I'm amazed it'll even run and start a browser with only 4gb of ram. Firefox/Chrome alone uses a good 8-20gb of ram at a time for my normal u

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
> Ok, Thanks!! I have an HP laptop running Win 10 Pro that I use to make > videos. It has 8GB of ram and an m.2. It is about 6 years old. It is > using 41% of RAM... Yikes!! I really have to wonder how the browsers work like that with so little ram, they will tend to use as much or as little a

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2023-07-13 18:38, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: Ok, Thanks!! I have an HP laptop running Win 10 Pro that I use to make videos. It has 8GB of ram and an m.2. It is about 6 years old. It is > using 41% of RAM... Yikes!! I really have to wonder how the browsers work like that wi

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-15 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Keith, Sorry for the late response, but have been in between living arrangements since a fire took out my room at home (you may have seen it on the news on 27 June). There should be some system maintenance tools that will allow you to clear out old cruft files in the system folders, temporary i

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-16 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
sorry to hear about your room. On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 12:01 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Keith, > > Sorry for the late response, but have been in between living arrangements > since a fire took out my room at home (you may have seen it on the news on

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-16 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Yeah, my only problem right now is that the insurance company is trying to lowball me and the other homeowner. I lost a couple of good pieces of equipment in that little flame fest. One of which was a $6000 braille display device! And that was a device. I was going to try and put Linux on so that I

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-08-02 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hi, Okay this problem is resolved. I contacted Dell to determine the type of RAM I should use because they had installed DDR4-2666 while the CPU called for DDR4-2400. Also the CPU would handle 64 GB and Dell was saying the box could only address up to 32 GB. I bought 32GB of RAM and it arr