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    Slow TZ from today!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by armadilo, May 17, 2009.

  1. armadilo

    armadilo Notebook Evangelist

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    Well, this morning working in the TZ wasn't at all the same..even the most simple task like opening the control panel it makes for ever...Is very strange, just from today! It doesn't even open some things as disk defragmenter, is incredibly slow, what can I do?

    I checked the task manager, the processes are 64 but the strange is that the CPU Usage is stuck to 100%.. :confused:
     
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    Could it be some automatic software updates that are happening in the background?

    Or your anti-virus doing a check-up...

    Or worst case scenario, a virus?
     
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    Open task manager and see if you can find the culprit using up your CPU time.
     
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    What he said. Post the name of the process here.
     
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    When I dont do anything the CPU usage is 35% but as soon as I do something it goes up to 100%. I dont know which one of the processes that is the culprit.
     
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    Have you checked with ctrl-alt-del? Then sort on CPU usage.

    35% is already too high.
     
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    Hmm.. how is the temperature of your CPU core? You can check using HWmonitor.

    Also, make sure your computer isn't in powersaver mode.
     
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    Wait, I press ctrl-alt-del and it comes the Task Manager correct? Then there are: Applications-Processes-Services-Performance-Networking-Users.

    Down it writes the number of the processes 67 , the cpu usage 100& and the physical memory that is 32%.

    In the performance option there is the cpu usage history and there is an option resource monitor. I don't know what to do from here..

    The TZ is in high performance mode, because all the other modes are much much more slow!
     
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    In XP: Taskmanager > tab: Processes > Click on row: CPU

    Now the processes consuming most of your CPU will be on top. Which one consumes most?
     
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    I have Vista and cant click on the CPU. The only way I can acess the CPU usasge is the performance option that shows me a diagram of the CPU usage history. By the way, now he CPU usage is stuck to a 100% even if Im not doing anything.
     
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