PC Slow. Any Ideas???

[AJCButler]

My PC is starting to get slow.
This may be caused by unnecessary processes running from my ram.
Is there any free program which checks the processes running and identifies the ones that are not needed and can delete them?

I use Ccleaner which shows the programs on startup, but these are other programs that I do not know of.

Eg. AVEngine.exe, PNmSrv.exe, MsPMSPSv.exe and several svchost.exe.

Any ideas.....?

Cheers
AJ

 

[floppybootstomp]

And the specs of your PC are?

 

[V_R]

Eg. AVEngine.exe, PNmSrv.exe, MsPMSPSv.exe and several svchost.exe.

You got Panda antivirus? The first two are that. The last one is something to do with a WMP update.

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/mspmspsv/

svchost.exe is a number of things MS related but can also be bad. Have you done the usual pc housekeeping? Run AV scanner, online and in house. Anti Spyware etc? Defrag? Uninstalled unused crap?

 

[AJCButler]

Yes. Delete all cookies, cache, temporary files etc..
Uninstalled everything I do not need.

Will try a defrag.... Not done that yet!

Cheers

 

[Abarbarian]

This site gives you a run donw on whats what in your Task Manager running processes list . Helped me get rid of some redundant Brother printer items that I was unsure of .