Sluggish performance under Windows

[jo...@jfeldredge.com]

I have an older, dual-boot laptop that is responsive when booted into Linux, but noticeably sluggish when booted into Windows 10. It has plenty of RAM, and I have virus-scanned it both from within Windows and from within Linux, without finding malware. Does anyone have a suggestion of how to find out what is hogging the CPU under Windows? It didn't use to be this sluggish under Windows.

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[Chris McQuistion]

It the sluggishness caused by the CPU?  You’d be able to see CPU usage in Task Manager. Could it be I/O issues causes by hard drive activity or a slow hard drive?  You can see that in Resource Manager. 

Chris

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On Sep 17, 2020, at 8:04 AM, jo...@jfeldredge.com wrote:



I have an older, dual-boot laptop that is responsive when booted into Linux, but noticeably sluggish when booted into Windows 10. It has plenty of RAM, and I have virus-scanned it both from within Windows and from within Linux, without finding malware. Does anyone have a suggestion of how to find out what is hogging the CPU under Windows? It didn't use to be this sluggish under Windows.

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[Csaba Toth]

Task manager is quite lame. Use Mark Russinovich's Process Explorer. It's a Microsoft tool bc Mark joined MS. Doesn't need installation, download it only from MS. It's also part of the sysinternals group of tools with which you can monitor disk IO, network and registry activity in details as well - to name a few.

Things like stupid DropBox's syncing can bog down a Windows. That was one of the culprit for my wife's laptop. I also discovered that although my fortified LEDE Wrt3200 ACM works with everything (including a dozen of smart gadgets) my wife's laptop's wifi chip does not like it. So I wired a lan cable to her, that helped in a major way. Lastly, it needs an internal cleaning of fans and stuff, 4 years of gunk I think.

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[Csaba Toth]

I also use process explorer as a partial malware deterrent. Many malware writers know that it's better not mess with developers. So I've seen multiple malware code which does not infect if it senses the presence of the process explorer, because that can be a precursor of a stubborn developer like me and thus bad juju: one major goal for the malware is to remain stealth. These codes are along the ones which try to disable various anti virus products and auto update. Just sayin'

[Kent Perrier]

You can try https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater and see what happens.

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