another computer question???

[Chachi]

ok, my laptop has been real slow lately. I've run all my stuff (virus checkers and adaware), and I have used disk cleaner. It is still slow!!!

if I click; control, alt, delete, it has just one thing running under applications, but has 51 things running under processes.. Are these 51 things slowing me down? if so, which do I "end process"??

thanks

[Lothar]

Sort it by CPU and see what's at the top (it should be System Idle Process), then sort by Mem Usage and see what's up there.

Report back here.

[Chachi]

system idle is around 80ish (at bottom of list--literally), but it has highest number.

mem usage is highest with; avgwb.dat (26,424k), avgamsvr.exe (16,972), iexplore.exe (19,488k), avgemc.exe (12,688), explorer.exe (13,752k), svhost.exe (13,516k), avengine.exe (12,040k),

and there's more, but those are the highest.

[Lothar]

That's svchost.exe, not svhost.exe, right?

If System Idle Process is only at 80%, what's next after it?

[Chachi]

That's svchost.exe, not svhost.exe, right?

If System Idle Process is only at 80%, what's next after it?

system idle process is like it (going from 98 down to 80ish) and then everything else is pretty much 0's.

yeah, svchost.exe..

[Lothar]

Try defragging.

[Chachi]

k, thanks

[Xeon]

sounds like your AVG is stuck on an update actually. Try killing that avgwb.dat the worst that can happen is you will break your AVG til you reboot

[Lothar]

That seemed like more processes than necessary for an antivirus program, but I've never dealt with AVG so I didn't know.


I was assuming he had rebooted already.