Vista Suddenly Slowed Down

Madandfrustrate

Madandfrustrate

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My computer was running perfectly fine about a week ago,but now its become 100% slower! I got Norton Internet Security 2009 and Spyware Doctor and used them both to scan my computer, solved a few viruses and that was it. I have no new programs installed,in fact, I'd removed some programs. (except for NIS 2009/Spyware Doctor(It was also slow before I got those)) It was still slow...it takes literally about a minute to open programs and about 5 minutes just to start up. Normally it would take 1-2 seconds to open programs and 2 minutes to start up. I really have no clue what to do right now and this is really piddling me off right now!

Can someone PLEASE help me?:cry:
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway DX4860
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-2320 @ 3.00GHz
    Memory
    6GB DDR3 SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Zotac GeForce GT 240 1GB GDDR5
    Sound Card
    Intel H67 Express
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung SyncMaster 2253LW
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 @ 60Hz
    Hard Drives
    SATA II 1.5TB Hard Drive
    PSU
    450 Watts
    Keyboard
    HP 5189
    Mouse
    NexxTech Wired Optical Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Telus High Speed 15mb/s
Check with Process Explorer what's eating your CPU. ( Process Explorer ) And do not run Spyware Doctor along with NIS09. Make sure Spyware Doctor is not in the startups. Spyware Doctor can really mess things up. I have banned it from my systems.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs
    1x60GB OCZ SSD
    6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
whs said:
Check with Process Explorer what's eating your CPU. ( Process Explorer ) And do not run Spyware Doctor along with NIS09. Make sure Spyware Doctor is not in the startups. Spyware Doctor can really mess things up. I have banned it from my systems.
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Hey thanks for the tip. It was slow before I got Spyware doctor though...
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway DX4860
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-2320 @ 3.00GHz
    Memory
    6GB DDR3 SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Zotac GeForce GT 240 1GB GDDR5
    Sound Card
    Intel H67 Express
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung SyncMaster 2253LW
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 @ 60Hz
    Hard Drives
    SATA II 1.5TB Hard Drive
    PSU
    450 Watts
    Keyboard
    HP 5189
    Mouse
    NexxTech Wired Optical Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Telus High Speed 15mb/s
whs said:
Check with Process Explorer what's eating your CPU. ( Process Explorer ) And do not run Spyware Doctor along with NIS09. Make sure Spyware Doctor is not in the startups. Spyware Doctor can really mess things up. I have banned it from my systems.
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Oh,hey I found out that "System Idle Process" is eating up about 90 of my cpu...what should I do?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway DX4860
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-2320 @ 3.00GHz
    Memory
    6GB DDR3 SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Zotac GeForce GT 240 1GB GDDR5
    Sound Card
    Intel H67 Express
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung SyncMaster 2253LW
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 @ 60Hz
    Hard Drives
    SATA II 1.5TB Hard Drive
    PSU
    450 Watts
    Keyboard
    HP 5189
    Mouse
    NexxTech Wired Optical Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Telus High Speed 15mb/s
Madandfrustrate said:
whs said:
Check with Process Explorer what's eating your CPU. ( Process Explorer ) And do not run Spyware Doctor along with NIS09. Make sure Spyware Doctor is not in the startups. Spyware Doctor can really mess things up. I have banned it from my systems.
Click to expand...

Oh,hey I found out that "System Idle Process" is eating up about 90 of my cpu...what should I do?
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nothing thats fine

try a clean boot tell us what its like booting into a clean vista enviroment

How to perform a clean boot procedure to determine whether background programs are interfering with a game or a program that you currently use

if this helps the rest is easy.........
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Intel Q9550 @ 4Gig / Titan Fenir
    Motherboard
    XFX 780i
    Memory
    4GB OCZ PC2-8500C5 DDR2
    Graphics Card(s)
    Gainward GTX260/216 SLI
    Sound Card
    Creative X-FI Xtreme Gamer
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell UltraSharp 2209WA 22"
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    western digital raptor 10000rpm sata
    PSU
    OCZ Modstream 700w
    Cooling
    Titan Fenir
    Keyboard
    Razer Reclusa
    Mouse
    Logitech G5 Gamer
    Internet Speed
    8mb
Ok, if system idle process is 90%, that means your CPU is doing quasi nothing. So the bottleneck must be somewhere else. The next candidate is the disk. There could be contention - probably from paging. Fire up Process Explorer again, click on "Process" and look at the next two after System idle process. Those are "Interrupts" and DPCs". Especially the DPCs (deferred procedure calls) are interesting. If they are under one (1.00), you are ok but if they are over four (4.00), there may be a problem.
It would be useful to know the size of your RAM.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs
    1x60GB OCZ SSD
    6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
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