slow computer

My computer was running slow and hot, and I noticed that a process called vmmem was using 85-99% of my CPU at all times. I ran wsl --shutdown in the command line, and shut down my computer. Now, my CPU is running at a more normal level, but I'm concerned that I have a virus on my computer. I...

Hello, I am in great need of help. 4 years ago I got a gaming pc with very good components, I was just blown away by the speed of it, however over time it became extremely slow, just the startup took about 15 minutes. I lived with it for about 1 year before rebooting it. After that, it was very...

I have a Packard Bell Istart D2314 running Windows 7. Everything runs fine but oh so slow. I have looked into the Task Manager and I find the machine is now running 72 processes and 163 Services, even on startup with no applications running. I must confess I have no idea what most of these...

Sorry I am sort of a newbie sorry if I forgot any thing, let me know if I need to add anything. Okay so I noticed when I started my computer today that the disk is at 100% more or less all the time right now. I cannot figure out why this is happening and it causes my machine to go really slow...

Hi After Windows updated today I decided to try running Chrome again, as I've posted in the past, after running it for years even on this computer, every time I install it my computer just slows to a crawl the second that I open it. Well It is in and so far my computer seems to be running...

I have an HP laptop (17 ") with 1windows 10 loaded with bloatware-Tried everything to get rid of windows 10 including windows 7 install disk which will load everything and comes to the install screen. When I click on it a box comes up saying not supported. Can I format the C: drive and then...

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I have, within the past few weeks, build my own computer. The compter has worked great for a while, but then started having problems. It had problems with the internet and other stuff, but I was able to fix the problems by disabling parts of my firewall. Now though, when my computer boots...

My computer is slow no matter where it is. The stupid little blue circle keeps going around and around until the page opens. I have done all the cleaning I am supposed to. The other forum actually took over my computer and went in and got rid of xoftspy. We were going to do a clean install of...

After my computer has been running for some time (maybe days), it gets really slow. I found a great memory manager that cleans the memory. I was wondering if there was a way to clean the Page File without rebooting. BTW, I use Process Explorer so I know there is nothing running that shouldn't...

My desktop computer has been progressively slowing to a crawl. I just upgraded my RAM to 6 GB and I haven't noticed much improvement (probably a waste of money all things considered). I have repaired the MBR, which I have had luck with in the past. I ran a disk check, seemingly fine. Used...

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...

Hello guys, I just registered and I need some help. My computer uses 95-99% RAM everyday even with no windows open. It's very annoying because it cause the computer to run very very slow. I currently have an Acer Aspire 7540 with 2 or 3 GB of ram. Task Manager currently says I'm using 2.69 GB...

Hi all. I'm running Win7 Ultimate 64bit. This is my rig: CPU: Intel E8500 @ 3.45GHz (OC) RAM: OCZ Titanium 2x2GB @ 1152MHz FSB432x8.0 MB: Gigabyte EX38-DS4 (BIOS F3) GPU: ATI Palit 4870 1GB Dual Edition I have WD HDD 500GB Sata2 and WD HDD 160GB Sata1 for my videos and music only. The main HDD...

Hello, I recently purchased a computer dedicated to gaming/working. I just installed MS office 2007 and I have an issue with word 2007. When I'm running word 2007, it takes always 5-6 seconds to switch from Word to any other application running: Internet explorer, Google chrome, Paint...

I installed windows seven a month ago it worked good for a few weeks now my computer starts running 80% cpu and 80% ram constintly without any programs open. computer specs asus G51vx Intel(R) COre(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz 2.00GHz 4 GB ram 64 bit windows 7 home

My computer which has Vista Premium installed is incredibly slower than when new. Is it ok to use a registry repair software package?:( Is it ok to use registry repair software? What is the alternative? :confused: