"NY" wrote in message
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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How much memory do you have and what percentage is in use in the task
manager when it's slow?

6 GB (increased from the 4 GB that it came with). CPU usage is around
90-100% when the PC slows down, even though after the initial high usage
after rebooting it normally stablises to about 10-20%. It's often simple
things like redrawing the screen when a window is moved, or when a
background window is clicked to bring it to the foreground.

What tasks are using the 100% CPU?

Often it's a generic process such as system or svchost, so nothing obvious
that points to a process that has been explicitly started by the user or
by one of the various auto-start-at-boot mechanisms such as
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run .

In my case its normally one of the browsers. I run all of IE, waterfox
and pale moon 24/7/365.25 with different browsers for different
stuff and they all eventually go pear shaped after some days. One
weather app that I only use when a storm is coming is particularly
bad at eventually killing pale moon and it kills the others even quicker.

Eventually even win 7 is the problem and I need a full reboot.