Slowed speed, freezes, high disk usage

After I have been on the computer for about 10-15 minutes, it starts to freeze and slow down. I get a high disk usage message from Norton saying that Windows Explorer Exe. is causing this. I also keep getting the same 5 updates even after I have installed them. I have a Compaq Presario SR5602FH Desktop PC Using windows home basic. Also the Hp updater does not open anymore.

Norton is pretty good but you still could have viruses. I don't think you do and I believe it is your hard drive going bad. I would try to run check disk and if your laptop has the utility partition, test your memory and hard drive.
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Since upgrade to KDE 4.7 on my i686 laptop, my system behaves weirdly. I noticed a slow down caused by a very high disk usage: when the HDD spins the cpu usage reported by the CPU monitor plasmoid is very high (~ 50%), while top reports a very small CPU load. Another strange symptom is that, when I try to close the session, the system freezes for about 15 seconds before the logout/shutdown/restart dialog window appears, again with HDD spinning furiously. If I exit the dialog window and then try to close session again it works smoothly, so I think some caching is at work at second try.
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without any benefit. On the same laptop I have dual boot with a 64 bit arch installation, which does not have the same problem, nor has it my 64 bit desktop pc.
Does anyone have similar issues? I don't understand what is it that makes the HDD spin so much, nor how to eventually track it down (are there som HDD usage profiling utilities?). Moreover, why top and CPU usage plasmoid report so different CPU usage stats?
I'm very confused, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Although I'm not having any of the issues as Snack, I have found KDE 4.7.0 to be a very horrible release. In fact, I'm sick and tired of the KDE release notes bragging about killing thousands of bugs each release, when in actuality the first few revisions of each stable release are horrible. When I first upgraded, I ran into at least four really nasty bugs. Although I've worked around some of them, it left a really sour taste in my mouth. Here is what I've experienced:
1.) With a new user or fresh install, there is no wallpaper by default, even if I install kde-wallpapers before I log in, it makes no difference.
2.) Sometimes kwin will crash during log out.
3.) Worse yet, if I exit a full screen game, it will more than likely crash Kwin. This is a problem on my laptop (which has intel video) and not my desktop (which has nvidia video). If I don't remember to disable desktop effects before opening a game, I may run into a problem.
4.) Although my performance is good, it's not great. I would think a laptop with a Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM would run faster than it is.
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High disk usage/high memory usage.

i keep getting high memory usage and high disk usage in ps cs6.
its slow when i open a file. how can i solve this problem.
thank you.
philip.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but more than what? More RAM is almost always better, but you haven't answered most of the questions posed here. The answer might be different if you have 2 GB of RAM or 32 GB of RAM already. A 9 megapixel document could get rather large with a lot of layers, but again you've neglected to give any hard info about its size.
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Everything in general will run more smoothly with a powerful modern video card. I like to recommend a VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 7750 - or if the computer power supply and your budget allow, the even more powerful 7850. VisionTek does a very good job with their hardware, IMO, and it comes with a lifetime guarantee.
Keep in mind that if you switch from nVidia to ATI or vice versa, you should carefully sweep your system to ensure all files from the old card are removed, then visit the web site of the new card's maker and download/install their latest display driver release.
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If you open task manager-> performance -> open resource manager / you will see whats eating up your resources
if its windows see if indexing is off
did you installed 3rd party software diffrent than stock ?
how old is your laptop?
its not normal to have such high usage numbers !! i think its a program causing the problems !
if you check your resource manager you will be able to see whats causing it
ps if possible please post a screen shot and ill look into it

PC with slow boot and pc speed, sudden high pc usage, delay-freeze when opening/performing something

Hi,
Before everything, two things:
1. I'm not a native english speaker so i may have some problems to speak properly/as objective as i'd like to.
2 . I'm writing in this section because i don't know the cause of my pc issues so i can't categorize them.
Now, my computer is a Toshiba satellite L755-S5244, Windows 7 Home premium 64 bits, Intel pentium CPU B940 2Ghz, 4 Gb RAM, and I'm writing this message using it.
I bought the laptop in December of 2011 and at the beggining it was working normally. Someone else used the computer these last months and he left the pc without antivirus protection; when i installed one (Avast) and start to analyze the pc it suddenly shutted down. It wasn't able to boot, so after some trys to restore/enter in safe mode I finally used the Toshiba Recovery Wizard to get the pc to the original factory settings. The process was sucessfull, so the first thing i did after finish the process was install a new antivirus (this time i used Kaspersky Pure) and the the analysis showed no threats as i expected.
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But that wasn't all. After the recovery to the original factory settings, i just installed a few things:
-Kaspersky Pure 2.0, CCleaner (free), Mozila Firefox, and League of legends.
Later I also installed Microsoft Office 2010.
The antivirus showed no threats. The game kept with the freeze thing.
And 2 days ago i was playing league of legends and downloading Skype when the pc suddenly got too slow. I restarted it. After the restart it took a long time to boot, and before the windows login screen loaded there was a black screen where only the mouse was showed; the start-up was slow too, (this one showed a blue screen with the mouse too -but not BSOD-) all this took like 15-20 minutes; that never happened before so i restarted the computer again but the problem was the same: slow boot, slow desktop start-up (let's not even talk about opening something).
I went to the repair menu (f8) and try to restore the system but it didn't change anything. I checked for memory issues but there wasn't. I looked also for starting problems but the repair didn't find anything. All in there was saying: "the computer performance seems normal", but it wasn't. Like entering to windows in normal mode was talking to long, i tried the safe mode. It was also slow but not that much. When i entered, a system restore which i wasn't able to performance before in normal mode popped-up and said that the system was restored sucessfully to the first restore point -just after the factory recovery, but it apparently didn't fix the slow bot issue.
Even in safe mode the software was working slow so i decided to go for the toshiba recovery wizard again, and looked in here, the forums -and the rest of the net- for problems like mine.
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That's why i'm here, looking for a way to identify/fix them. One last thing: all this time i've been checking the temperature of the laptop but is never hot -now is not even warm. Now i'm afraid of restarting the PC again cuz i know it will take a long time to get into a kinda stable performance like right now.
So that's all. If you read all this, have my thanks. Also, any help would be really appreciated it.
EDIT:
A new thing happened. When i try to installed league of legends, the setup told me that my hard drive may be corrupted and the file won't copy, i skip it a few times but the installation took a long of time (half hour) and the error kept ocurring. I hope this can may be a clue about what is happening to my pc.

Satellite L755-S5244
If you restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media and still have trouble, then you know it's not due to software.
the setup told me that my hard drive may be corrupted and the file won't copy, i skip it a few times but the installation took a long of time (half hour) and the error kept ocurring.
In particular, that sort of thing occurs when a hard drive is failing. Time to call Toshiba's tech support at 1-800-457-7777 (from the US) or 1-949-859-4273 (from outside the US).
-Jerry

[SOLVED] Arch very slow at boot, high HDD usage

Hi,
After an upgrade today (I don't know exactly what packages I upgraded, but it had been around 2 days between when I did it last), my Arch install has been very slow booting up. There is VERY high hard disk usage while booting, and I get the following messages that I never used to get before:
1 - stalling at running cleanup hook
2 - A start job is running dev-sda2.device (/home)
When it has fully booted up into KDM, any keyboard press and the HDD is paging again and things slow to a crawl. I tried logging in, but 10 minutes in and things were still loading.
I suspect that I might have lost my journal or suffered extreme file system corruption, but I have done nothing of the sort, after the upgrade Arch had a clean shutdown with no out of place messages.
Right now I'm at school, so I won't be able do more debugging, but once I get home, I'll try and do fsck from the live USB.
Thanks!
EDIT: I looked at the systemd wiki, and added noauto,x-systemd.automount to fstab and now instead of saying "A start job is running..." it's now showing: "...recreate volatile files and directories..."; it came and went so fast I didn't have time to read the entire line.
Last edited by ctown.myth (2013-03-20 00:16:20)

So, after coming back home, I booted up the live USB and did fsck -fpv on both root and /home. After that I was at a loss so I restarted, and everything seems to be working now.
I will mark this thread solved, however if someone knew exactly why this happened and what to do in the future to prevent it, it would be eternally helpful!
Anyways thanks Arch Forums for nothing /s !
Last edited by ctown.myth (2013-03-20 00:16:05)

High disk usage and cpu

hi, sorry about my english first.
I bought new lenovo ideapad Z400 touch 2 month ago with win8.
last week i upgraded to win 8.1 and recover back to win 8 , since then i have some problems.
When I have the Task Manager open, I sometimes notice the disk usage climbing to 50, 75, or 100 percent, even though there's scarcely any disk activity going on, the laptop's fan is working hard and very noisy and , my proccesor speed is jump high without any progrems on.
I tried almost anything, cheacked for viruses, disable al unneccesry startup progrems, clean boot, buy it still the same.
please help.
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U can check advanced power settings. Mite help for the procesor

Solaris 9 High Disk Usage

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Slow performance and high memory usage

I do website development so I have Firefox, IE, Chrome and Opera, all updated to the most recent versions. However, for as long as I can ever remember, Firefox has always used more system resources.
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Chrome 5,476k
Chrome 33,504k
Chrome 2,008k
Chrome 4,592k
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This Firefox had all add-ons disabled. Yet I still use Firefox as my default browser mainly due to a couple of add-ons that I find very helpful for what I do.
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I've included the clipboard from the troubleshooting information so hopefully that will help someone pinpoint a reason for this problem.
All-in-all, good work on the version 8.

Have you tried creating a new profile to see if a vanilla profile (with '''no''' add-ons) is also slow for you? One of the things showing in your troubleshooting report is a network printer. A fresh profile without that network printer and with no residual add-on data may be considerably faster.

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LTurner,
Here are a few numbers from SWMBO's U110, running on AC mains:
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Login screen to desktop: 20 seconds.
Shutdown from start menu to power off: 20 seconds. (after waiting for system to settle, and some normal use)
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Both cores enabled in BIOS.
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DMA enabled in Windows (control panel, hardware manager, IDE controller properties).
HD full/nearly full or needing defrag (your clean install should have ruled this out)
Unknown/unexpected services, process, or applications using HD or CPU (check w/task manager)
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From here, it's a nice little machine. (well, as nice as any Vista box can be...) YMMV.
Z.
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