Barbra Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 (edited) Whenever i download a video no matter how small or large the file maybe, everything goes gayed up and just really slow, i can't browse any websites, alls i can do is chat on msn and open music, nothing else will run at a reasonable speed. Give me two seconds and i'll go into task manager to illustrate my point.EDIT: Its working now, but i know it'll go funny again ( it always does it) Basically if i look at the process's tab on my task manager the 'cpu' will be at 99. Then if i click the 'performance' tab the cpu usage will be at 100% I'm really puzzled on this and i havn't the slightest. Could anybody shed some light? Edited April 3, 2007 by Barber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 sounds normal to me if you have a crap pc? if its half decent id do the usual spyware/defrag/virus checks etc and then post again if there is still a problem. Do a screenshot of the system processes with them arranged so that highest cpu usage is at the top of the list and maybe someone can offer some more help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
531joshua Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 How much memory does your pc have? Also, how fast is your internet connection?Two factors that may affect it, the internet one is probably the most likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocks370 Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 sounds like its a memory hungry antivirus (like norton) scaning the downloading file.how much memory have you got? what antivirus are you using? any other anti-spyware / firewall protection running?P.S if any of you guys experience slow booting / bad system performance and you have a pc with 256MB RAM and Norton antivirus / sercurity center then remove it! loads of decent free ones out there that dont slow your pc down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbra Posted April 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Norton is shite, AVG all the way, i also use spybot and Ad-aware. My pc is capable of running BF2 at good settings and CSS at the top settings so its not a crap pc. I'm not a noob when it comes to pc's this has just stumped me. I've anti virus'd and that and it seems to be working now but i'm sure it'll screw up again in the next few days. I will revive the thread when it happens again with a screenshot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocks370 Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 do a virus scan with this:House Call Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 download diskeeper .. google it. Its an awesome defrag program and see how it does. It could just be a super screwed hard drive taking forever to read/write to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 I'd take a guess that this is your problem..http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/disk_thrashing.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocks370 Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 I'd take a guess that this is your problem..http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/disk_thrashing.htmlIf hes running CSS at top settings he must have at leat 1GB RAM.very unlikely its disk thrashing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 If hes running CSS at top settings he must have at leat 1GB RAM.very unlikely its disk thrashingI'd guess theres an app hogging all his memory somewhere along the lines which could lead to disk thrashing.. maybe.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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