resource monitor

I am having a problem with splwow64.exe hanging up my PC, but only once per day. I routinely start a process in the morning, it can be Snagit, Notepad, Word, Textpad, Excel - really anything that might print. It doesn't matter. The application appears "hung". I then open the Resource Monitor...

This has been going on for about a week now, where my physical memory spikes from a solid 20-30% to 90-96% and just makes my laptop completely unusuable. I currently have 4GB of RAM, so I KNOW it's not an issue with lack of memory. I've investigated this to the point where's it's really starting...

I have been using my desktop for a while now, and I notice that even when the memory, CPU are active or inactive but not at a high usage level, a single task (such as right clicking on a tray icon) or opening a program will stall the hard drive, as disk access shoots up to 100% or near it...

I'm having a bit of a problem where all of my RAM is getting eaten away by something i don't know. I have noticed that when i start some programs the RAM Just keep going away but when i then look in task manager or Resource Monitor there is nothing taking up that much RAM. i have 4GB RAM Link...

Hi, My windows keeps getting stuck regardless of whatever software I am using. Every few minutes it says (NOT RESPONDING) at the top of whatever window that I have open. I checked task manager and there it says CPU Usage and Memory Usage is relatively low so that does not seem to be a problem...

This problem has been happening for quite a few months now. I boot up Windows 7, everything's fine, run some programs for a while (usually Google Chrome) and the taskbar freezes. I click on it and choose to close the program. It restarts and everything's fine for 5 minutes or so. Then, if I try...

Yesterday, i had no problems with my computer. All 8gb of my ram was working fine. Today when i booted my computer, i noticed that it was running rather slow. Using resource monitor showed that 6153mb of my memory is being reserved. I dont really know what information to post for people to help me..

I HAVE RECENTLY INSTALLED WIN 7 ARC GAMER EDITION. I THINK ITS JUST REBUILT OF ULTIMATE. WHEN I CLICK RESOURCE MONITOR ICON IN TASK MANAGER OR IN START MENU NOTHING POPS UP.

Hello, I've made a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate a few days ago, and I started to encounter the following problem after 30-60 minutes: It usually happens when I'm running a computer game (any game), I experience a sudden fps drop, even though before that, on maximum quality the...

Hello dudes! I have got trouble my my Alienware Aurora, all start with BSODs(produced by the graphic card) and after calling the technical support they changed it. But then, the pc started to reboot randomly which happens currently. The problem is that there is not a BSOD associated to this...

Well here is my latest disaster. I upgraded the memory in my lenovo T400 Acording to the specs it will take 8gig Im aware that im running 32 bit version so i will only see 4 but now it only shows 2.46 with 8 gig installed I have read alot about this and im at a stand still. I have already...

I keep putting the drive offline because im wary of having it always active. It may have something to do with avast antivirus because thats the image thats listed next to the files in those drives. I checked with avast and it doesnt appear to be running any scans and theres no way I can find...

Is there any software out there that monitors which processes access which IP addresses and how much data they transfer, and keeps a log of it? For the second time since I got my wireless internet package I have lost about 1200MB of bandwidth to some phantom process that BitDefender and...

This whole incident started today. Firstly, my computer's ram usage was perfectly fine (Less than 2GB Ram usage), I left my computer on for 3 hours, I came back and noticed that everything started to run really slow, I noticed that my ram usage skyrocketed to 5.8GB Ram usage. (My Computer has...

System performance is abysmal. "Resource and Performance Monitor" says: Component Status Utilization Details CPU Busy 100 % High CPU load. Investigate Top Processes. Resource Monitor says: Image PID Description...

Hello friends, I am new to this forum. I have HP Pavilion dv6-2150us, owning since Jan 2010. Recently I have started facing this weird problem. When I switch ON my laptop, for the first 10-15mins the CPU usage constantly remains between 80 and 100% and after 15mins, it comes to normal (0 - 50%)...

About a good time ago, I came here with hopes that my labtop's lag issues would be fixed. Link Removed That link you see there was my original post. About yesterday, I completely reinstalled Windows 7, hoping that would cure the lag. However, about a good 30 minutes ago, it struck again as it...

Hello, I have 8GB of memory in my computer. When I power it up, the memory usage starts out at somewhere between 10%-20%, which I think is OK. After a while of using the computer and opening & closing programs, the amount of memory being used steadily increases, until it escalates to around...

I am running a software, which apparently is not freeing the allocated memory at exit. However, the memory is not made available by Windows after the application exits. It takes almost 10 minutes before the memory shows up under the available. I am running this program for multiple iterations in...

Arrgh, this has been plaguing me for weeks and I still haven't found a solution, even after perusing all manner of forums and FAQs. Windows 7, 64 bit, here. Whenever I boot up my computer, physical memory used by my usual applications (Usually AIM, Firefox, and Windows Media Player) hovers...