Computer Very Slow

[Lorand]

It seems that it have been cured...
Do you still notice some lags?

 

[Ryman21]

Yes....And it is constantly loading something every minute or so...

 

[Lorand]

Give it an online virus-scan too with Trendmicro.

 

[Ryman21]

Okee Dokee..let ya no the results when its done,....itll probably be a while...the damn thing lags every minute

 

[Ryman21]

Well, so far...it said it found a virus with pirate in the name or sumthing..lol...i hope thats it!

 

[Lorand]

I hope it can disinfect your system...

 

[Ryman21]

Better than Norton..Piece of crap..always says 5 adware things then i press delete and it says "Delete Failed" "Delete Failed"...it sucks..

 

[Ryman21]

Ok...still no luck....is my last option reformatting my hd?? If so, how do i do it and is it possible to keep my programs on, just restore all the defaults to everything else...id rather not have to re-install everything if possible

 

[Lorand]

What could it be that thing that slows down your computer?
Let's see if we can catch it: run Procexp (arrange its window and the columns properly to see all the processes) and wait until the next lag. Then make a screenshot and post it here.

 

[Ryman21]

Ok..i took a screenshot and even a compressed zip-file, its still too large..However.When i check the CPU usage System Idle Process takes up 98-100% while everything else is 0 except for process explorer (2) and new start button (3-5)

 

[Lorand]

If the Idle Process is above 90% then where's the lag?

 

[Ryman21]

You've got me there...Listen, im just going to reformat my hd..Lets hope that works

 

[Praetor]

If the Idle Process is above 90% then where's the lag?

Background HDD optimization. You can have 95+% Idle and the drive can chew itself to crap resulting in zero performance. I usually find this only happens if you have craploads upon craploads of nested big files (more so with AVI and other media types where the OS attempts to pre-deal with them)