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I have recently (I got it about 3 weeks ago now) recieved a new Dell Inspiron
1520 laptop with preinstalled Windows Business. However, performance has been
very for it's build. The setup is:
1.8GHz 2MB Cache Intel Core 2 Duo processor
2GB 667Mhz DDR2 RAM
Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT graphics
160GB 7400RPM hard drive
The computer has been acting, however, like my old 2.5ghz pent 4 256 mb ram
desktop computer - of the 2GB, almost 100% is constantly in use, and even
using tabbed web browsing is excruciatingly slow. I already posted one
question on this newsgroup, "Is windows Vista hogging my hard drive", and I
recieved feedback that windows vista ran certain background applications -
file indexing, for one - which could slow the computer. Ergo, I proceeded
disable these services. Performance improved slightly, but only minimally.
Perplexed, I started the computer in diagnostic mode using msconfig. Upon
checking task manager, I found that only 19% of the RAM was in use. In this
state, the computer ran wonderfully, programs like Word and Firefox opened in
a blink, and all was smooth. I proceeded to, one-by-one, re-enable services,
starting from security, networking, and then various ones like microsoft
framework, and so on and so forth, whilst keeping the number I activated down
to a minimum. To avoid trouble, I set most of the other services to manual,
so that I anything cropped up, at least I wasn't in too much trouble.
Now the situation is more interesting. Upon startup, the computer runs as,
and better than, I would expect. The antivirus is active, firewalls are up,
and all the necessary services are running. However, normally about 20
minutes after startup, the RAM use goes from about 25% background + programs
in use to about almost 100% background, and performance grinds to a halt. I
have checked the event viewer, but no recurring event appears to coincide
with this sudden memory spike.
In summary, my plea is twofold; if anyone has any idea as to what could be
degrading performance to this level, I would be extremely grateful for any
assistance. Furthermore, if anyone could advise a method (either through
windows or third-party programs) of accurately monitoring what
programs/services/processes are using the RAM and when, I would be able to
monitor spike with more accuracy and gather more information as to what is
going on.
Thank you in advance for your help,
Horus
1520 laptop with preinstalled Windows Business. However, performance has been
very for it's build. The setup is:
1.8GHz 2MB Cache Intel Core 2 Duo processor
2GB 667Mhz DDR2 RAM
Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT graphics
160GB 7400RPM hard drive
The computer has been acting, however, like my old 2.5ghz pent 4 256 mb ram
desktop computer - of the 2GB, almost 100% is constantly in use, and even
using tabbed web browsing is excruciatingly slow. I already posted one
question on this newsgroup, "Is windows Vista hogging my hard drive", and I
recieved feedback that windows vista ran certain background applications -
file indexing, for one - which could slow the computer. Ergo, I proceeded
disable these services. Performance improved slightly, but only minimally.
Perplexed, I started the computer in diagnostic mode using msconfig. Upon
checking task manager, I found that only 19% of the RAM was in use. In this
state, the computer ran wonderfully, programs like Word and Firefox opened in
a blink, and all was smooth. I proceeded to, one-by-one, re-enable services,
starting from security, networking, and then various ones like microsoft
framework, and so on and so forth, whilst keeping the number I activated down
to a minimum. To avoid trouble, I set most of the other services to manual,
so that I anything cropped up, at least I wasn't in too much trouble.
Now the situation is more interesting. Upon startup, the computer runs as,
and better than, I would expect. The antivirus is active, firewalls are up,
and all the necessary services are running. However, normally about 20
minutes after startup, the RAM use goes from about 25% background + programs
in use to about almost 100% background, and performance grinds to a halt. I
have checked the event viewer, but no recurring event appears to coincide
with this sudden memory spike.
In summary, my plea is twofold; if anyone has any idea as to what could be
degrading performance to this level, I would be extremely grateful for any
assistance. Furthermore, if anyone could advise a method (either through
windows or third-party programs) of accurately monitoring what
programs/services/processes are using the RAM and when, I would be able to
monitor spike with more accuracy and gather more information as to what is
going on.
Thank you in advance for your help,
Horus
