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tw · 10-19-2018, 07:59 AM

A list of "it could be"s is very long. Blaming any one or a few things is only wild speculation. Required are facts to define a defect long before trying to fix it.

Start with Process Explorer from SystemInternals (now a Microsoft company). UT once described it as Task Manager on steroids.

Look for bottlenecks. CPU is only one. IO faults are another. Memory faults are a third. Nothing here fixes anything. It only directs us to a suspect.

The View option will be necessary to display those relevant columns.

Also download TCP View from the same source. Amazing how many other servers are connected (maybe even 50) when viewing some web sites. Some of those connections remain. In some cases, I literally had to reboot the entire machine to eliminate some connections.

The maybe three Cellar connection will be listed as members.linode.com

Windows 10 is faster than 7. If yours is not, then something is running in that computer (creating bottlenecks) or you have plenty of connections to your machine that you do not know about.

Worse offender is software, successfully downloaded by malware, that puts your desktop into a Window on another computer somewhere else in the world. So Autoruns is downloaded. Those are all programs that startup on reboot. Windows boots fast. But that long list of programs, installed by you, printer drivers, Office, Adobe, or malware, must execute on each reboot. In that list might be a program that is displaying your desktop elsewhere in the world.

Just some ideas on how to start to find a defect. In some cases, the solution is simple. In others, assistance is required to convert that suspect list to actual perpetrators.

10-19-2018, 07:59 AM	#15
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	A list of "it could be"s is very long. Blaming any one or a few things is only wild speculation. Required are facts to define a defect long before trying to fix it. Start with Process Explorer from SystemInternals (now a Microsoft company). UT once described it as Task Manager on steroids. Look for bottlenecks. CPU is only one. IO faults are another. Memory faults are a third. Nothing here fixes anything. It only directs us to a suspect. The View option will be necessary to display those relevant columns. Also download TCP View from the same source. Amazing how many other servers are connected (maybe even 50) when viewing some web sites. Some of those connections remain. In some cases, I literally had to reboot the entire machine to eliminate some connections. The maybe three Cellar connection will be listed as members.linode.com Windows 10 is faster than 7. If yours is not, then something is running in that computer (creating bottlenecks) or you have plenty of connections to your machine that you do not know about. Worse offender is software, successfully downloaded by malware, that puts your desktop into a Window on another computer somewhere else in the world. So Autoruns is downloaded. Those are all programs that startup on reboot. Windows boots fast. But that long list of programs, installed by you, printer drivers, Office, Adobe, or malware, must execute on each reboot. In that list might be a program that is displaying your desktop elsewhere in the world. Just some ideas on how to start to find a defect. In some cases, the solution is simple. In others, assistance is required to convert that suspect list to actual perpetrators.