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by REDACTEDREDACTED · in Hardware Issues · 07/29/2009 (12:45 am) · 2 replies
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Also check the Memory group, see if anything is eating up your memory, and see how much Physical Memory you have left. Also check the "Hard Faults/min" column, and see if any app is swapping to the drive like a madman (0 is best).
You might also check the Network utilization. This is handy if you have a rogue app on your network sending out spam. But hopefully you have virus protection installed - so just to be safe, boot into safe mode and do a full scan.
07/29/2009 (7:44 pm)
Also, since you're on Vista, you can use the "Reliability and Performance Monitor" app in Administrative tools. Check the CPU group, see if there are any applications hogging the CPU. Sometimes things can go wrong, and a process will sit and spin, eating up an entire CPU core. Also check the Memory group, see if anything is eating up your memory, and see how much Physical Memory you have left. Also check the "Hard Faults/min" column, and see if any app is swapping to the drive like a madman (0 is best).
You might also check the Network utilization. This is handy if you have a rogue app on your network sending out spam. But hopefully you have virus protection installed - so just to be safe, boot into safe mode and do a full scan.
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What in particular is suffering performance? HDD speed? GPU speed?
Intel offers several processor utilities on their website for monitoring speeds and getting cpu id's, etc. Maybe one of them can help?