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Physical Memory (RAM) Keeps Spiking & Slows my performence way down
Hello, I am new here, but have heard that the reputation of these forums is superb.
Anyways, as the title says, my Windows 7 PC has been really sluggish lately, and I have pinpointed it to be its excessive RAM/CPU usage. I have 4gb of RAM and a Intel Core i5 processor.
It has been fine up till now, I bought it June 2010, and only use it to browse, iTunes, Steam, and the occasional music torrent download.
I do virus scans on a regular basis, I try to do it at least once a week if I remember.
Anyways, below is some pictures of the issues. It can be really sluggish when I'm running only Firefox, or even nothing at all!
It might be a dust issue, but I could not get it to open due to the lack of guides of my model on the internet, and the fact that some screws got stripped. In spite of this, I tried spraying air dust on the outside of the PC's grills, some dust came off, but it didn't solve the issue.
I tried doing a msconfig, disabling "Load Startup Items" on the General tab, and clicking "Hide All Microsoft Services" and "Disabling all" under the Services tab. I restarted it, and noticed that the RAM usage was good at first, around "0.95gb", but eventually spiked back to around "3.5gb".
Please, if you have ANY suggestions, they will be welcome. I even got desperate and sent it to Staples Easy Tech Repair, but that didn't help any.
Thank You