System running VERY slow
Exactly the same problem as listed here:http://www.computing.net/answers/wi… vista/very-high-physical-memory- usage/1055.html
The computer is very laggy. After I right click on desktop, the loading cursor pops up and takes forever to load the menu. This is just one of the symptoms. I press the start button and I move my mouse cursor around, and the entries in the start menu highlight as I move my mouse over them, then all of a sudden it stops highlighting over where my mouse cursor is and my mouse cursor icon turns into the loading cursor, as if explorer stopped responding. After an hour or so, it might continue, but I always reboot after about 10 minutes of being unable to do anything.
In safemode, everything runs fine. I’ve tried disabling windows search from safemode. I’ve tried different virtual memory settings. It’s at the default of letting the system manage it. I’ve tried running it with no paging file. Same thing happens. In safemode, I ran AVG scan, I also downloaded spybot search and destroy in safemode and ran that as well, but it still restarts in regular normal with the same issue.
Next up, I’m going to try and reinstall a copy of vista over the existing one, but Im hoping it doesn’t go to that, because I’m afraid that will screw up all the registry, program locations, etc.
Also, the one time I was able to get into taskmanager, the memory usage was absurdly high. The system has 1 gig of memory, and about 800 megs was used, and this was right after the computer started up with only the normal programs running. These programs are the normal apps that comes with a dell, maybe some sound drivers, AVG, PC- Cillin, and now theres spybot. I went into msconfig and disabled everything, restarted and the same thing happens. I did not see any strange processes that I wasn’t sure about in the process list. I would list the exact processes that are running, but I can’t get into taskmanager anymore.
I also did a vista memory diagnostic by pressing F12 after I restarted before going into windows, and no errors.
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