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  1. Posts : 247
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #1

    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.
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  2. Posts : 1,533
    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
       #2

    Cheemag said:
    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)
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  3. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #3

    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
    Last edited by A Guy; 02 May 2012 at 23:46.
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  4. Posts : 247
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    windude99 said:
    Cheemag said:
    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).
    Why not?

    Second, you could try system restoring as shown here:System Restore
    System restore is turned off. I rely on a disc image to restore the system to a previous point.

    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)
    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
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  5. Posts : 247
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

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

    Default File Type Associations - Restore

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

    Thanks
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  6. Posts : 2,171
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #6

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

    Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup
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  7. Posts : 247
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #7

    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.
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  8. Posts : 247
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #8

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

    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)
    And then ?
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  9. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #9

    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.
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  10. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #10

    Cheemag said:
    And then ?
    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.
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