[Sidewalk]

Hey KTT fam,
I have a windows 7 computer, and lately my computer has become really slow: My CPU usage is steady around 10-20, but Physical usage is around 90.  My computer is on for days at a time, generally.  Anyone know enough about computers to help me?

 

[Sidewalk]

It starts up at about 50, and slowly gets higher.
Something I noticed is that on my account there's only about 40 processes going on, but when I click on the checkbox for "show processes for all users", there's at least 90.  I just deleted the only other account on my computer.  Thanks for the help!

 

[Sidewalk]

Thanks guys, I'm probably gonna upgrade my memory from 4GB to 8.

 

[Sidewalk]

before spending money on ram, do what Chaval said, and take out some startup programs 1st. (also do some virus scans)

because, like bacon, i have 4gigs and i idle around 35-40% too

I cut down what I can just now, so I'll see what that does for the next couple days

 

[Sidewalk]

Thanks guys, seriously a huge help

 

[Sidewalk]

Just a quick update: I bought 4 gigs of RAM and swtitched out one of the two gigs ram sticks with it, huge diff.  The Physical Usage has dropped to about 40 generally (I'm watching a movie and have itunes, multiple tabs on firefox, word, Vuze, utorrent, and last.fm open and it's 60%).  My computer hasn't lagged since.

 

[Sidewalk]

nice, but did you also try some of the tips we recommended?

Of course, cut down my startups a lot, defragged, got rid of a lot of manufacturer programs and unneeded processes, again thanks a lot guys. My computer was getting pretty unbearable