Windows 7: Windows 7 Slowdown

Hello again.

My Windows-7 seems prone to slow down to a crawl if I neglect to clear out temporary files and so on regularly (CCleaner, Glary Utils etc).



My XP machines do not seem to suffer from this problem.

Is it my install of Windows-7, or is this a common problem?

By slow down I mean that I can double-click on a programme icon and nothing happens until after a minute or more the programme launches; not all applications do this, some will launch normally.

When this happens, there is no resource hogging according to Task Manager.

First, don't use any of those optimization programs (ccleaner, glary utilities). Second, you could try system restoring as shown here:System Restore
If that doesn't help, try going to start and typing in msconfig and press enter. Next, go to the startup tab. Disable everything except your antivirus and firewall (if you have something like comodo Firewall)

Temp files should not slow you down. Try a clean start and see if there is an application conflict.

Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup

A Guy

Why not?

System restore is turned off. I rely on a disc image to restore the system to a previous point.

I don't think it's that, but I'll try that next time I use the Windows-7 machine. Thing is, it's intermittent - went all day yesterday without this happening. There's no malware there either according to Malwarebytes and Avast.

Thanks

How do you mean, a clean start? That system where it's started with minimal services? (safe-mode?)

Thanks

Don't know how that happened, but I think A Guy meant to link to this:

Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup

Sibbil Wrote:

>Don't know how that happened, but I think A Guy meant to link to this:

>Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup

That seems to refer to file associations, which isn't the problem.

The problem has just reoccurred. Apps taking minutes to come up, failing to shut down.

Both the file-cleaner programmes always lock up when they get to the deleting temporary files bit, which tends to indicate that there's something wrong in that department.

I've rebooted now and run one of the cleaners again - all went well. the temporary files were deleted and the machine behaves normally again.

[QUOTE=windude99;1902353][QUOTE=Cheemag;1902346]Hello again.

And then ?

When the PC is actually running slow, look at Task Manager and/or Resource Monitor. Look at running processes, RAM usage, and CPU usage to try to get some indication of what is actually using a lot of resources---RAM, CPU cycles, services, etc.

And then reboot and see if the problem persists, over time, if not immediately. You need little to nothing running at startup. Things have a way of creeping back into the startup list, so look there periodically.