I have just done a virus scan and spyware scan. I have Webroot, (checked for updates 2 minutes ago), Norton Internet Security and Antivirus, (also just checked), I have checked to see if defragmentation is necessary and it is not. What am I missing? This is driving me NUTS!
Why is my computer running at 20% of its regular speed?microsoft office
Email me via my profile contact info and I will send you a document I wrote that will probably help.
This kind of question comes up very frequently on Yahoo! Answers so I just wrote it up.
The short version is:
0) Start / Control Panel / System / Advanced tab, under performance choose 'Settings', choose 'Adjust for Best Peformance'. [this usually provides improvement immediately]
1) run msconfig and check the startup stack
2) uninstall ANY AND ALL applications that you don't need
3) run 'services.msc' and change any services that don't need to run automatically to 'manual' start up mode, or just 'disable' (be careful)
4) be aware that the Norton and McAfee applications are top-heavy ... so if you don't have lots of RAM they might be the culprits. (I use Avast, Microsoft Defender, and run AdAware and Spybot periodically fyi)
5) reboot your machine
6) run ctrl-shift-esc to view task manager - processes tab - sort by cpu and see what's consuming the most CPU. Do the same for memory usage.
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