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pc slow between 8+10pm


peter richards

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The process may only be running at 8pm to 10pm though. Its worth looking at running process's for sure but unless you know what they all mean that isn't going to tell you much apart from processes are running. msconfig after a virus scan and disable all processes at startup then enabling one by one would be a better way to alienate the dodgy process should a virus scan come up with nothing.

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. The process may only be running at 8pm to 10pm though. Its worth looking at running process's for sure but unless you know what they all mean that isn't going to tell you much apart from processes are running. msconfig after a virus scan and disable all processes at startup then enabling one by one would be a better way to alienate the dodgy process should a virus scan come up with nothing.

 

Run task Manager when the PC is running slow. Finding out the process information is easy. For example if a process named scan32.exe is running 100% cpu, you could take a guess that it maybe your AV. If the process name does not help you out then Google the process name and I'm sure you will find out all the information you need.

 

Also check hard drive activity. You might have something that’s heavily read/writing to your hard drive. You can use the Performance tool in Windows Admin tools to help resolve this.

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Sounds to me like its checking for windows/office updates, we get this alot on our pc at work (i'm an it tech) svchost will be taking up alot of the pc's time, once it checkes for updates it should work fine and normal. However should only take a short time unless it actually finds updates which should be released on the 2nd tuesday of every month from Microsoft, not every day.

Like said above trend should clean up any virus' and malware, otherwise try using a registry cleaner, that speeds things up no end, one i use sometimes is Abexo as they have a free one :)

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