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Something slowing laptop

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  • 07-12-2014 10:08pm
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    Bagenal
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭


    Hi folks
    There seems to be something slowing my laptop, I'm just guessing that it's a program running in the background. The anti-virus or Windows update aren't running and I have switched off Backup as I thought it might have been the problem. This machine will operate fine sometimes but 2 or 3 times during the day whatever is happening slows it insanely.
    The machine is a Toshiba C660, Windows 7 SP1
    What can I do to find out what's happening?


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,450 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and select Task Manager, then click the 'Processes' tab and click the header in the CPU column to see who is chewing up the processor. That's for Win7, not sure about Win8, might be the same.


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    Sup08
    Registered Users Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭Sup08


    Bagenal wrote: »
    Hi folks
    There seems to be something slowing my laptop, I'm just guessing that it's a program running in the background. The anti-virus or Windows update aren't running and I have switched off Backup as I thought it might have been the problem. This machine will operate fine sometimes but 2 or 3 times during the day whatever is happening slows it insanely.
    The machine is a Toshiba C660, Windows 7 SP1
    What can I do to find out what's happening?

    Download, install and update malwarebytes. Run a scan and see if that removes anything.


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