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    windows vista is slow now?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by MTDman11, Feb 12, 2010.

  1. MTDman11

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    ok so randomly my windows vista laptop is running so so slow! idk why. this thing was always fast. i mainly use the websites facebook,craigslist and play the online game runescape. my laptop is just randomly one day slow. i am sitting here with only windows explorer open and using 100% cpu. i have 82 processes going and they seem technical so i didnt mess with them. i do not have any games downloaded to my computer. all i have downloaded really is aim 6. windows defender has detected nothing as well as avg free 9.0 (my anti-virus. my laaptop is a compaq presario cq60. here are the specs for it.

    processor: genuine intel(r) cpu 585 @ 2.16 ghz
    memory (ram): 2.00 gb
    system type: 32-bit operating system
     
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  2. Kocane

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    Which process is using 100%?
     
    Kocane, Feb 12, 2010
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    ding, ding, ding

    Uninstall avg...then run the avg removal tool, then reboot.

    see if the problem goes away.
     
    gerryf19, Feb 12, 2010
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    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

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    If helps if people at least screenshot their task managers. Give us something to work with.
     
    surfasb, Feb 12, 2010
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    I bet its that svchost or the crss or something similar that are infected or a virus is taking a vacation on that machine of yours.
     
    Saisei, Feb 12, 2010
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    i have had avg free 8.5 for months before this happened. once it happened i upgraded to avg 9.0
     
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    heres a pic. note - i ended that process of google tool bar and cpu is still 100
     

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  8. Saisei

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    Your using Google toolbar which is causing the problem, you should uninstall and run a scan if possible.
     
    Saisei, Feb 13, 2010
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    ...as nightmear says, removing google toolbar should fix it :) ..
     
    Kocane, Feb 13, 2010
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    ok i will remove it. but i have always used it. weird
     
    MTDman11, Feb 13, 2010
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