Fairly new PC slowing down.

[mokwit]

Quote from ssrrkk:

Actually my experience is IB TWS does not hog the CPU. I run it every day during market hours and my computer is cool as a cucumber. However, what I find is Firefox is extremely expensive. It eats not only CPU time, but has a huge memory footprint. Moreover there are definite bugs in Firefox -- after visiting different web sites, Firefox often gets stuck with extremely high cpu and memory usage and needs to be restarted. I have since switched to Chrome and have not had any problems like that.

- after visiting different web sites, Firefox often gets stuck with extremely high cpu and memory usage

Exactly my experience - I often have to shut Firefox down and restart = also it seeems to be loading all kinds of affliate and advertising tracking things in the background. Firefox is proving a big mistake and will be canned.

 

[mgookin]

Quote from badvestor:

If you have Norton or McAfee, uninstall these. Unfortunately even after a uninstall parts of these antivirus software will continue to run in the background. These days every programmer thinks their piece of shit software warrants being run in the background from start up, use piriform to disable non microsoft start ups like adobe. Some Microsoft updates will kill your cpu, If you use a good firewall, you can disable automated microsoft updates. For XP the best firewall is Kerio, it was so good they killed it, but if you look around you may find the old version floating around for free.

However I think your problem is none of the above. Your problem is you are browsing the interwebs while running IB TWS. Given java.* is running in the background during high cpu cycles, I'm positive your problem is IB TWS. This platform is very poorly written and being java based it is like a virus unto itself. The solution is to kill all processes including Firefox when using this poorly written trading platfform. I haven't updated TWS in a while as I find every iteration to be worse in memory management than the previous version.

I thought I was the only one with those beliefs & observations. But it's not "these days". Ever since the first Windows OS every software developer has made their shit load at startup, hog ram & resources, hog cpu and bandwidth seeking updates and who knows what other data their stalking from you, etc. I never allow anything to update. And I've never had a virus but I've had two systems ruined by anti-virus programs. Fuck them all. Don't open e-mail from anyone you don't know, don't use commercial e-mail services like Yahoo, AOL, etc. and don't go to porn sites and you have no need for anti-virus. As to anything Adobe, it's all trash.

They say they make all this trash load at startup so that when you go to use it "it loads faster". Well excuse me but someone show me how little suzy knows the difference between 31ms and 310ms. I don't need some POS software company causing material harm to my system to save 280ms "if" I want to use their software.

Shut off all updates including and especially Windows Updates. Never let anything update. If you change something under the hood of your car every day, it will definitely stop working. Don't let these idiot software companies kill your pc. If it works, don't fix it.

 

[JamesEM]

Quote from TIKITRADER:

In addition to other replies if an hdd and not an ssd it is always good to defrag when not using the computer.

This was the first thing I did after posting here and getting all of your replies...instant and pretty drastic improvement.

Thank you for the advice

 

[JamesEM]

Quote from Bolimomo:

system should be normal. But with spoolsv.exe

From this page:
The spooler service is responsible for managing spooled print/fax jobs. Spooling allows you to print in the background without your computer being tied up.

Note: The spoolsv.exe file is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32. In other cases, spoolsv.exe is a virus, spyware, trojan or worm! Check this with Security Task Manager.

Do you so a lot of printing? If you don't, then it could be a suspect of virus. You may want to so some virus screening and such.

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/spoolsv.exe.html

I do indeed do a lot of printing. My main concern now is the fan running at full speed (see response to other reply in this thread regarding fan).

 

[JamesEM]

Quote from imabadboy:

first thing i'd do is shit can speedfan because the motherboard should control fan speed and if it wants 100% it needs 100%. and if you don't like the noise clean the dust off the heat sink and change the fan and or heat sink, assuming you have the intel stock cooler, to something quieter. besides messing with fan control who the fuck knows what else you've been installing or messing with. to much shit coding around too, i opened an offshore fishing forum friday morning and unknowingly left the tab open all day. at the end ofthe day that forum home page was using nearly 2 gigs of memory. Best practice is to keep it as clean as possible, hardware and software.

I am weary of the fact that there may be a legitimate reason for the fan running at 100% and of the potential risks involved in artificially lowering the speed. But I feel as if that risk is low, knowing that the CPU temp isn't too hot.

Since posting, I have opened up the PC and cleaned off all the dust off the fan and heat sink...still running high.

I think you've misunderstood the problem though- it's not that the fan has always ran that fast- a problem has recently developed forcing it to run at high speed.

"...who the fuck knows what else you've been installing or messing with."

I know . The answer is nothing else.

 

[JamesEM]

Quote from mgookin:

Ever since the first Windows OS every software developer has made their shit load at startup, hog ram & resources, hog cpu and bandwidth seeking updates and who knows what other data their stalking from you, etc. I never allow anything to update.


Shut off all updates including and especially Windows Updates. Never let anything update.

How can I stop software loading at startup and shut off all updates??

I know that this is probably a large part of the problem and the reason why it takes too long to reboot.

Thanks for the advice.

 

[TIKITRADER]

Quote from JamesEM:

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I've tried going to a technician and he cleaned the machine for me, re-installed everything and that improved things for several months but now it's worse than ever!

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PS CPU fan recently became stuck on 100% (ie noisey!) which I'm now manually controlling using SpeedFan.

Did you notice the fan speed increased after the machine came back from the tech ?
Possible the tech changed the fan speed in the bios setting accidentally or for some reason, or bios possible needs an update ?


Check the fan settings in bios and see if the fan threshold has been increased.

Also is there an available upgrade for the bios ? if so a simple upgrade may help . ( although the fan itself may be going bad as suggested ) The bios upgrade would still be fine to do.

access bios instructions
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/accessbios.htm

!! Do not fool around with the bios settings !! Just take a look at the settings and see if fan threshold is set very high.

 

[mgookin]

Quote from JamesEM:

How can I stop software loading at startup and shut off all updates??

I know that this is probably a large part of the problem and the reason why it takes too long to reboot.

Thanks for the advice.

start run msconfig selectivestartup remove check boxes from all the stuff you don't want running

updaters are per program. for the os get it through the control panel.

 

[Eight]

Quote from mgookin:

I thought I was the only one with those beliefs & observations. But it's not "these days". Ever since the first Windows OS every software developer has made their shit load at startup, hog ram & resources, hog cpu and bandwidth seeking updates and who knows what other data their stalking from you, etc. I never allow anything to update. And I've never had a virus but I've had two systems ruined by anti-virus programs. Fuck them all. Don't open e-mail from anyone you don't know, don't use commercial e-mail services like Yahoo, AOL, etc. and don't go to porn sites and you have no need for anti-virus. As to anything Adobe, it's all trash.

They say they make all this trash load at startup so that when you go to use it "it loads faster". Well excuse me but someone show me how little suzy knows the difference between 31ms and 310ms. I don't need some POS software company causing material harm to my system to save 280ms "if" I want to use their software.

Shut off all updates including and especially Windows Updates. Never let anything update. If you change something under the hood of your car every day, it will definitely stop working. Don't let these idiot software companies kill your pc. If it works, don't fix it.

That worked for me, but it was from behind a white listing firewall. I had two identical computers, one for business which was whitelisted, and one for surfing the internet. I never updated the whitelisted one and the other one was updated automatically but still needed a software rebuild every so often.

 

[WinstonTJ]

OP, do you have any toolbars or search engines installed (like when you install Java and it auto-installs the Ask Toolbar)?

As others have mentioned, you should live with the loud fan vs. controlling it with a 3rd party application. It's loud because it needs to be loud.

Have you tried going to your Device Manager and checking to see if you have any drivers that are not installed properly?