JaeDan 101 665 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 my computer runs slow. What do i do? I even transferred some big files to a hard drive. And it still runs slow. Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 28,501 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Slowness could be a wide variety of things. Your PC's storage space being near maximum shouldn't really be an issue, though, so moving files around likely won't do much. Open up task manager (right click the task bar > task manager) and view the processes tab and see if there's a problem taking up a lot of resources. High CPU and/or RAM usage can have a big impact on the snappiness of your PC. There's also other things to take into account, like having an old Windows install or Windows being installed on a slow hard drive. JaeDan 101 1 Link to post Share on other sites
JaeDan 101 665 Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 On 12/31/2020 at 12:46 PM, Jason said: Open up task manager (right click the task bar > task manager) and view the processes tab and see if there's a problem taking up a lot of resources. High CPU and/or RAM usage can have a big impact on the snappiness of your PC. here, is my computer fine?: I think 85% of CPU is fine, or no? Link to post Share on other sites
sivispacem 21,743 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Shut down teams. It's eating like 50% of your RAM. Your system is incredibly weak in general though. JaeDan 101 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 28,501 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 10 hours ago, JaeDan 101 said: here, is my computer fine?: I think 85% of CPU is fine, or no? Assuming that's about average CPU and RAM usage for you, that means at any given time your PC has ~15% CPU power and ~15% free RAM available. That's really not fine, no. Given that your CPU is pretty weak going by the specs you've posted in other threads, basically anytime you try and do anything I imagine that CPU usage is going to spike to a 100% and once that happens you'll run into a lot of slowdowns, stutters and lag on your system. Killing MS Teams will help free up some resources and using less tabs in Chrome (if possible) could help too. Going by your specs tho, ideally you need a new modern PC to solve your issues, if that's at all possible, otherwise start removing things you don't use from system start up to avoid them clogging up resources everytime you turn on your PC might also help a little - there's a lot of Adobe stuff you have running there for example which you could probably bin. You have more background processes than me running and I have a high end PC lol. Do be careful not to kill important Windows processes if you do start axing things in the Task Manager mind you. That will crash your PC. JaeDan 101 1 Link to post Share on other sites
JaeDan 101 665 Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 (edited) 12 hours ago, Jason said: Assuming that's about average CPU and RAM usage for you, that means at any given time your PC has ~15% CPU power and ~15% free RAM available. That's really not fine, no. Given that your CPU is pretty weak going by the specs you've posted in other threads, basically anytime you try and do anything I imagine that CPU usage is going to spike to a 100% and once that happens you'll run into a lot of slowdowns, stutters and lag on your system. Killing MS Teams will help free up some resources and using less tabs in Chrome (if possible) could help too. Going by your specs tho, ideally you need a new modern PC to solve your issues, if that's at all possible, otherwise start removing things you don't use from system start up to avoid them clogging up resources everytime you turn on your PC might also help a little - there's a lot of Adobe stuff you have running there for example which you could probably bin. You have more background processes than me running and I have a high end PC lol. Do be careful not to kill important Windows processes if you do start axing things in the Task Manager mind you. That will crash your PC. Okay, I deleted files from my computer that is a total 15GB, I cleared some apps on my desktop, I disabled all startup apps, and my CPU runs low As you said, high CPU causes it slowing down. In my observations, my CPU runs in 3%-10% tho. I just need to not open too many apps in order to run my computer fine and dandy And also, after I cleared 15GB of storage in my PC, it actually works very good, it opens my PC faster, it makes games run fantastic, it responds properly and more In the previous days I was struggling in my PC. The apps close by itself, it doesn't respond, it lags, it took years to open apps and start my PC, blackscreens appear and audio is glitching out after I cleared some big files, cleared some apps in my desktop and disabled all startup apps, it works great Thank you @Jason, i appreciate it. I think I don't need to buy a new modern PC, I'm fine Edited January 28 by JaeDan 101 Link to post Share on other sites
JaeDan 101 665 Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 (edited) Okay, I think my computer is doing good on its CPU, please check if it is fine: CPU I disabled all startup files: Of course, my space is fine Edited January 28 by JaeDan 101 Link to post Share on other sites
JaeDan 101 665 Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 @sivispacem, base on my screenshots, is my computer has good enough performance? Link to post Share on other sites
sivispacem 21,743 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 Good enough for what? Link to post Share on other sites
JaeDan 101 665 Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 17 hours ago, sivispacem said: Good enough for what? Good performance Link to post Share on other sites
Carl Theft Auto 1,895 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 (edited) 3 hours ago, JaeDan 101 said: Good performance You're supposed to be answering that question, is it still slow? If yes then it doesn't have good performance, and if no, it has. Besides, Do you play GTA V with that PC? Just Wondering... Edited January 30 by Carl Theft Auto Zello 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LittleBlueTroll 1,852 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 8 hours ago, JaeDan 101 said: Good performance Define good performance though? Are you using MS Paint or playing Minecraft? It depends what you need the performance for. There isn't much point posting the details of an idle PC and asking if performance is good, when that is purely relative to what you're performing. If you're asking if your specs are good, now that's another question, but one I'm sure was already answered in this thread or another one you created. Link to post Share on other sites
JaeDan 101 665 Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 17 hours ago, Carl Theft Auto said: You're supposed to be answering that question, is it still slow? If yes then it doesn't have good performance, and if no, it has. Besides, Do you play GTA V with that PC? Just Wondering... No, what I mean that it is good enough? I don't need to clear some more space? No, I don't play GTA 5 on PC Link to post Share on other sites
