What is Reddit's opinion of Process Explorer?

Software engineer and hobbyist sysadmin here. Steam performing a bunch of reads shouldn't put your performance out too much, assuming that you're not engaging in any other disk-heavy loads. Applications should still be responsive, nothing should lag, etc.

If you're seeing applications lag like they're not responding, and not just seeing applications take longer to do things, then there's a good chance you're low on RAM and your applications are being paged out of memory.

Yeah, buying an SSD will help the problem, but that's really only a band-aid; the real fix is to make sure you don't leave too many applications open, or if you're just running out of memory, consider getting more.

If you want to try to diagnose these sort of things, I'd recommend checking out the tools at Sysinternals. Process explorer is one of their most popular tools, but vmmap is handy for examining a single process.

Download the Sysinternals tool "Process Explorer" (here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx )... launch it.. and go under the OPTIONS menu and turn ON the "VirusTotal" functionality. (it may make you agree to a EULA...,etc)

The "VirusTotal" feature... takes a snapshot of all your currently running processes --- and compares them against the virus-database up on www.virustotal.com .... that should tell you whether any of your current Processes are suspicious or not.

I'm not the most educated on the subject, but I came across the same problem and do have a solution.

It's not "forever," per se, but does seem to remove most of my noticeable input lag.

1) Download Process Explorer.

2) Open osu!

3) Run ProcExp as administrator.

4) Find "explorer.exe" on the list. Right click and hit "Kill process."

5) Find "winlogon.exe" on the list. Right click and hit "Suspend."

6) Under "winlogon.exe" should be "dwm.exe." Right click and hit "Kill process."

You should be free from the binds of Windows 8.

Note that you have to do this process every time you wish to play osu!, unfortunately.

After doing these steps, you will be unable to access the Start Menu, File Explorer, and other minute processes related to Windows.

To revive Windows 8, simply hit "File" on Process Explorer (hopefully you haven't closed it, or you'll have to restart), click "run," and type "explorer.exe." Hit "Ok," and your File Explorer will be necromanced.

Right click on the suspended "winlogon.exe." and hit "Resume" to revive the Windows 8. dwm.exe should reappear when you do this.

If anyone has a better solution, please share ;_;

Fire up Process Explorer, double click on the explorer.exe process, go to the "Performance Tab" and post a screenshot.

Then close that properties window, and while keeping explorer.exe selected, hit Control-D, which will open the lower pane showing what DLLs are loaded into explorer.exe. Sort by Path, and then hit Control-A to save it to a text file. Dump the text file here.

The usage is real if the "private bytes" or "working set" values are high. Virtual Size has nothing to do with physical memory usage.

The cause is usually something third party, whether it be something you intentionally installed, or from a virus/malware.

If you have anything installed that integrates with the context menus in Windows, consider uninstalling that. WinZip, 7 Zip, TortoiseSVN, Virus scanners themselves - these run some parts in explorer's process, and if they have memory leaks it'll cause your sort of problems.

Scan the list of DLLs that show up as loaded into explorer.exe, and see if anything looks suspicious. Find out what installed it and uninstall it. That's what I'll be doing if you post the list.

Any action that you take to try to fix this will usually only show up after explorer.exe gets restarted. You can do that either by 1) rebooting 2) logging out and logging back in 3) manually restarting explorer.exe while logged in (for instance, in process explorer, right click on explorer.exe and click restart).

It's possible your Anti-Virus scanners aren't finding anything because the Remote-Control/Access is a legit program (IE = if an exploit or trojan opened the Remote-Desktop ports or installed something like VNC or TeamViewer,etc)

If that theory is correct.. then your only option really is to go through your machine with a fine-tooth comb and look for any "remote-control" apps that YOU didn't install.

Alternatively.. you could use the official Microsoft Sysinternals tool named "Process Explorer" (download here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx ) ... open/launch it and click on OPTIONS and enable the VirusTotal feature. The VirusTotal feature takes a snapshot/fingerprint of all your running processes and compares it to the virus-database up on www.virustotal.com .... and will tell you if any of your running processes are suspicious.

Another approach you could use.. would be to use a command like NETSTAT -A ... to view all open network connections.. and see where the traffic is going.

Use Process Explorer to see if the CMD is being called with arguments: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

And Autoruns to track down the cmd entry (if there's a match): https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

(I'd start in the task scheduler.)

> If it is a Windows machine, you should reboot.

Sorry, but this isn't true anymore for the vast majority of cases. You should use tools like Task Manager or Process Explorer to see if the app is doing useful work and/or kill the individual process in question.

Fastest way to figure out what's going on:

If you download a program called process explorer by sysinternals, it will actually branch out and show you EXACTLY what processes are being spawned under that instance of rundll32.exe. From there you will find out exactly what's going on.

link: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

I had the same memory leak symptoms [system crash after 2 hrs] and used process explorer to find which files were being accessed and not released back into free memory. Turns out it was an audio driver conflict with an external mixing unit I had plugged into the comp via usb. Removing the driver and unplugging the unit before starting Planetside resolved my problem.

I personally use Process Explorer - being able to track .dll problems with it and across everything running has helped in the past.

Havent uses system explorer though so cant compare the two.

Yes.

> First you will need to download Process Explorer and run it as administrator: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

>1. go to \Heroes of the Storm\Support64\HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe and launch the game

>2. run Process Explorer as administrator

>3. select HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe

>4. press CTRL + L (shows lower pane)

>5. find "\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Heroes of the Storm Game Application" right click it and select close handle

>6. find "\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Heroes of the Storm IPC Mem" right click it and select close handle

>7. go to \Heroes of the Storm\Support64\HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe and launch another session of the game

>NOTE: You will need to repeat this process (close the 2 handles) for each new session of the game if you want to launch even more.

First you will need to download Process Explorer and run it as administrator: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

go to \Heroes of the Storm\Support64\HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe and launch the game
run Process Explorer as administrator
select HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe
press CTRL + L (shows lower pane)
find "\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Heroes of the Storm Game Application" right click it and select close handle
find "\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Heroes of the Storm IPC Mem" right click it and select close handle
go to \Heroes of the Storm\Support64\HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe and launch another session of the game

NOTE: You will need to repeat this process (close the 2 handles) for each new session of the game if you want to launch even more.

I have not tested how the bot performs with multiple sessions since my SB key is limited to 1 session only.

A process invoking that file must be active on the system somewhere.

I would download and use Sysinternals "Process Explorer" ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx ).. and make sure you go under the OPTIONS menu and turn on the Virus Total feature.

Get process explorer and run as administrator (right-click -> run as administrator).

Do you have anything new, taking a lot of memory now?

You might want to install Process Monitor and have it running while you play the games that stutter. Set up a filter in Process Monitor so that it logs only events from the game's .exe file.

Process Monitor will tell you all the files and devices your game is attempting to access. You may see it failing to access certain resources, or doing other weird shit. This may illuminate a light bulb in your head somewhere.

You may also want to install Process Explorer and keep it running on a separate monitor while you play a stuttering game.

You may see the CPU use of some other app oddly high while you play your game. For example, maybe something you installed is trying to render an overlay in your game and failing to do so. Maybe it supports some of your games but not others. This could be benchmarking software, a video card tuner, or maybe some bullshit service you didn't even know was installed that was bundled with a game or some hardware you bought. It could be some process that is listening for hotkeys, who knows.

You may want to install something like MSI Afterburner and put a bunch of its metrics on your OSD. Maybe for whatever reason some of those games are maxing our your VRAM or GPU or something.

Also, note that even older games like Mount and Blade have some video options that will stress even a modern video card, depending on drivers and such. You might want to take a poorly performing game and set it to the lowest spec possible and see if it still stutters. If it doesn't, incrementally enable shit and turn up the resolution until the stuttering begins to occur.

This is why I like lua mods.

Edit: a good av tool is actually process explorer because it can check all your running processes for viruses on virustotal. The reason this is good is because if you run gta and check your processes you can see if something is only running while gta is open.

Download Process Explorer and run it. On the top bar, click View > Select Columns.... Go to the Process GPU tab, then check all four boxes and hit OK. You can sort by those columns now, something must be using the GPU. What does it show?

I said this in another comment, but this might be helpful knowledge if you ever run into this kind of problem again:

I think there is a temp or cache file somewhere in the system that preserves info that said the game was running, and that probably initiated on startup, even after you rebooted the computer. A restart in safe mode (if it still exists) would solve that kind of problem, probably. It takes a lot of digging through running processes (usually ones you can't see with normal task manager) to find and isolate the cause of the problem. The Process Explorer tool (completely different from built-intask manager; you even need to separately download it) could probably help find it, because it finds absolutely everything. It's available at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Tutorials are very helpful when using that tool, it's not very intuitive for first-time users.

I only know this because I'm a developer and have had to fix these kinds of problems in the past.

SuperF4 should do the trick. You can also use proper task manager like Process Explorer and kill it from there. Both can kill apps without giving them a way to prevent that.

Honestly, heavy SP3 user here, and I've gotten 1 blue screen (gpu driver issue that must have been taken care of in an update). I've had it shutdown for thermal issues 1 time (during the initial setup when transferring files, doing updates, and installing programs all at once). When I'm running data analysis or playing games I get ~3 hours, but regular note use usually lasts ~5 hours. For several weeks I went to a coffee shop daily between 12 and 5-6 to work on my thesis, meaning I had Firefox, OneNote, Word, Matlab, Acrobat, and a few other programs running, and would leave when the battery warning popped up at 10%. Your experience sounds very atypical.

Have you tried a factory wipe, or at least hunting down rogue background processes with something like Process Explorer? Could also be a hardware issue. Blue screens are really rare, actually, which makes me think this is a driver or hardware issue. I would at least do a wipe before running off to the land of capacitive styluses (ew). I can't imagine always taking notes with my hand hovering over the screen.

I've heard some people have issues with the Windows 10 update. Did you update to 10 and do the recommended things like disable the 'hints about Windows' feature and deactivate background apps? Have you tried using the Modern OneNote version instead of eh desktop? I've heard it is more battery friendly (though I only use the desktop version, which has an option to extend battery life by delaying recognition).

If you use process explorer in administrator mode it will help you track down whatever bundles and/or channels are causing this.

Also, I recently had this problem due to networx bandwidth logger, some TDI drivers used by bandwidth management/tracking programs will cause interference with Plex and/or P2P applications.

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Edit: Obviously, if this still doesn't work. Reinstall your OS. Keep your UAC turned on (and run in a non-admin mode which will require a password to install stuff... annoying but effective against future issues like this). Adblock, Ghostery, a good firewall like pfsense/opnsense/ipfire with squid3/HAVP/Dansguardian/privoxy... and just the generic "don't install stupid shit, and don't let stupid users use your desktop" also goes a long distance.

I haven't ran antivirus in over 10 years and I've never had a virus. Just be smart about it, educate yourself. Don't install crapware and stay on the good side of the internet and you should be fine. (also use virtual desktops if you really have to visit the shit parts of the internet so you can just delete that instance or roll back from a snapshot).

Another very useful tip is to use a Microsoft app, that doesn't come stock, called Process Explorer. It can submit running process app hashes to Virustotal so you can see if the running processes are infected. It's not an antivirus, but it's a good "is this shit infected" tool... plus a lot more. Like Task Manager on steroids.

Good luck.

I would download Process Explorer and see what's really eating your CPU. It's a program from Microsoft that's basically Task Manager on steroids; it shows a lot more information about running processes and can help you pinpoint what exactly is causing the problem.

no but connecting to different servers will provide you with IP #s and let you measure hops with an external tool. sysinternal's Process Explorer will show all network connections for a given process; plug IPs from that into your hop measurement tool and away you go.

So when dealing with high CPU usage you need to find what program is causing this. This can be accomplished a few ways. One way is to open up your task manager and look at the process list. this will show which have the highest ram usage(generally high ram usage means high cpu). Another way is to use process explorer(microsoft): https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

With process explorer it will show you better usage graphs. If you watch the top right there will be some small graphs going by. If you see a spike double click the graph and it will pull it up larger. You should then be able to hover over the spike and it will tell you the exe causing the spike. Then start researching why that program might do that.

First thing is first, you want to find out what is using the svchost.

Use THIS tool to see all of your processes, and hover above the SVChost process to find out what is running.

When you hover above that, it's going to look similar to THIS That should help you on your way to figuring it out.

Your next best bet is to download ESET, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes anti rootkit, and Roguekiller - run all of this stuff in safe mode.

If you come out clean, then try looking into Event Viewer for more clues.

Download Process Explorer. It's a suped up task manager. You can identify which program is taking up the most CPU / Memory. Comb through each process and make sure it's legit. Don't kill a process unless you know it's either bad or not required for the computer to run. This takes some amount of Googling and practice.

If CPU spikes then drops it could be resource or hardware related. Also, take a look at Autoruns. This program will let you know which apps launch at startup and login.

For future reference try out process explorer and autoruns. Really these two tool tools should be just about all anyone ever needs to disinfect their PC unless it was hit with something a reinstall can't fix either.

You can use Process Explorer to identify the window. Explanation of how here.

This will tell you what process/program created the popups so that you can either uninstall or carry on with troubleshooting that application.

It's actually very lightweight. Aside from the Scintilla editing component contained in SciLexer.dll, it only loads OS components.

https://i.imgur.com/bwAhWyX.png

You can see for yourself in Process Explorer. Just use View → Lower Pane View → DLLs. You'll see in my screenshot the reality isn't as rosy, besides Notepad++, its plugins (which aren't protected yet, even when they're coming from Don himself), the system DLLs (most protected by Windows against tempering during runtime) and the components of the C++ library there's also Office 2010 components injected via the SharePoint shell extension.

why would you want it in a graphic when text is so much more useful? it isn't like having it in fragments in memory is going to really cost like it would in a magnetic storage device (sata, pata, scsi, sas)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

process explorer may be the best out there for current operating systems. There used to be something for windows 3.1 way back when on 16 bit oses, due to important files having to load in the under 4mb block...you know when 4mb was a lot of memory and 8+mb was expanded memory and I vaguely remember a graphic (though it may have been in a text book, going deep...perhaps in a memory manager or norton utilities from back then). A gigabyte of memory was a pipe dream back then, even gigabyte drives weren't available.

rammap will give you more info but again it is all text based as graphic really doesn't matter all that much. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/rammap.aspx

Seems like complete overkill when you can simply do this (credit: /u/joethehoe27 )

First you will need to download Process Explorer and run it as administrator: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

go to \Heroes of the Storm\Support64\HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe and launch the game

run Process Explorer as administrator

select HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe

press CTRL + L (shows lower pane)

find "\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Heroes of the Storm Game Application" right click it and select close handle

find "\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Heroes of the Storm IPC Mem" right click it and select close handle

go to \Heroes of the Storm\Support64\HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe and launch another session of the game

I think I see the problem now.

> which is why I'm using shutil.move() over os.rename().

If the source and destination is the same, it's one and the same thing — shutil.move() will call os.rename(), which is the operation that failed and raised an PermissionError as you can see in the traceback you posted on StackOverflow. Refer to the docs on shutil.move() for more info.

This is happening because bort.tiff is in use by another process, so you should check your code and make sure bort.tiff is not open anywhere else, and if you have it open in another program (e.g. image viewer), close it. Process Explorer by Microsoft is useful in debugging file permission errors such as this. Also, if the file will eventually be moved to another directory / drive, you should use that as the destination for shutil.move().

Regarding the RuntimeError, I'm sorry I can't help with that. It's definitely file related (.tiff), and some quick Googling seems to suggest that it's already been fixed with Pillow 3.0.0 and that is the version you're using. If .save() is important to you, open a ticket on their Github and ask for help there.

When even the sound stutter it is usually a cpu choke or something that use too much kernel time and mess up multithreading. Try to check it with process explorer. Sometime BES can be used as a workaround (limit the cpu to -3% instead of the default -35%).

The message is coming up because something on your computer is trying to access an L: and N: drive, which do not exist on your computer.

It can be difficult to figure out what is causing it. You may want to check your machine for malware.

You might also be able to try Process Explorer https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Open it the next time you get the popup error (leave the error on screen). In the top menu bar, click and drag the bulls eye icon to the window. It will highlight the process that is showing the error. If it is something other than Explorer.exe, then you might have found what is causing it.

They have the exact same fan. Same exact housing and everything.

Why does the x220 run louder? Likely because it is a 2nd Gen Core CPU compared to the 3rd Gens found in the t430.

The CPU will have come under heavy load faster in the less powerful machine.

Start using Process Explorer together with TPFC to keep an eye on things. You should be able to figure out how to get things under control from there.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Common TPFC for t430: http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~schmitzr/tpfc_v062.zip

Modified for x220: http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~schmitzr/tpfc_v063.zip

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

hoping this still works in windows 10, basically you can expand whats behind the svchost, what the program is.

Mouse over the svchost taking all the cpu power and it shows the processes under it.

download and run this: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

it will break down processes giving you a much better look at what is going on. You can use it to close off subprocesses one at a time to nail down the culprit.

You can use the task manager and go into processes and add the Threads(I think that's the column) name and see how many it shows. Also Sysinternals has a great process explorer that breaks the threads down and shows the CPU use of each one.

I suppose it all depends on how you want to approach it.

If it was me... I'd probably scan with a variety of tools:

TDSSKiller
adwCleaner
Microsoft Safety Scanner
NOD32 Online Scanner
Hitman Pro

You could also download Sysinternal's "Process Explorer" ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx ) .. and make sure when you download/unzip/run it.. that you go under OPTIONS and turn on the VirusTotal feature.. which will calculate a hash of all your active processes and compare them up to the database on www.virustotal.com. (You may need to CLOSE and Re-open Process Explorer to get this feature to work correctly.. I've noticed it's a little flaky).

Netstat-a ... is just a DOS / Command line utility. So all you have to do is go out to a COMMAND PROMPT and run it like this:

NETSTAT -a

and it will echo back and show all your TCP/IP connections.

Process Explorer

open that, right click the top bar of the columns to select new columns. Under the 'Process GPU' enable 'GPU Usage' and figure out what's using it

"upd.exe" is most likely the "Update Checker" for Microsoft Lifecam software.

The blue-light coming on (seemingly) randomly.. is probably the webcam either being "PING"'d by its own software... or some other software like Skype or Webex or etc.

If you're paranoid about it.... do some system scans with a wide variety of utilities such as:

TDSSKiller
adwCleaner
NOD32 Online Scanner
Microsoft Safety Scanner
Malwarebytes
or use something like Sysinternals "Process Explorer" ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx ) and go under the OPTIONS menu and turn ON the "VirusTotal" feature which takes a running snapshot of all your active system Processes and compares them (in real time) to the database up on www.virustotal.com .

You have to somehow get Process Explorer running and see what is taking up all the drive time. Download and right click "run as admin" so you can kill processes. This can be a tricky one to figure out. A lot of googling involved. Cuz it's Windows.

Svchost is called by other programs to perform various tasks. It might be helpful to download a program that will break down which thing is causing it to use so many resources. May I humbly suggest Process Explorer:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Once you have deduced what is actually causing svchost to go bananas, you can start solving it from there easier.

That problem with player.exe, parent process of LiquidSky.exe. It start everytime with "Realtime" priority. You can change his priority to "Normal". That fix some lags and mouse freeeeeze. I use Process Explorer, part of SysinternalsSuite By Mark Russinovich (Microsoft). Very good tools :) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

But I still do not understand why LiquidSky-player.exe process starts with a realtime priority??

I am not sure but some times these antiviruses and anti-malwares are the culprit.

You can try and uninstall Bitdefender and see if that helps but first you might wan to use Process Explorer to explore more and know exactly which process is causing the issue.

Check this : https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Uhhh.... I also run a 980 ti and I run the game on mostly "Epic" settings at 50-60+ fps with dips pretty much only when it has to load a bunch of new textures/models in the distance. Game is installed on an SSD to help alleviate those load times quite a bit.

The game is continuously being optimized during development, so I don't think you will have to worry much about that by the time the release date rolls around. Like someone else already mentioned, it's pretty naive to assume they are ignoring optimization in favor of only content...

Quoting only your video card as a reason the game should be running at 60+ isn't a realistic measurement of your systems ability to run this or any other game.... We can make some assumptions based on you having a 980 in the system, but the video card is not always the bottleneck.

Check out process explorer and see if you have anything else bogging your system down. Mem load, cpu load, gpu load, IO load, etc....

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Demunted is onto the right idea - I'd go farther by downloading and running Process Explorer (in Microsoft's Windows SysInternals package) to get even more info about the process.

If you kill it does it come back?

Is it being run from a parent process? Which?

Uninstall anything installed around the time you installed plex, reboot in safe mode (with networking), run Process Explorer again and see if the process is still around. Either way, while in safe mode, run MBAM (it might want to run again after you reboot, let it).

Here's a few utilities you could use to try and pinpoint the issue:

ProcExplorer - use this to see if there are any processes spiking in CPU usage when the audio stutters.

DPC Latency Checker - last resort, kill processes / disable devices until you get constant green readings.

You could also try using an older Nvidia driver. I use one that's something like a year old because newer drivers screw with the madvr video renderer.

cool. You can use this tool as well to see if the crashes are caused by memory use. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Oblivion's game engine was written before 64 bit windows OS's were commonly available so it just dies when it hits 4gb RAM use no matter how much RAM your system actually has. There are mods you can use to tweak the performance and this tool can help you figure out if you need them.

I don't have a solution to this but thought I would throw in my two cents. I have seen this on a couple Windows 7 computers, mostly after a reboot. You can easily verify it is the Windows Update process by downloading Process Explorer. Sort Process Explorer by memory usage (Private Bytes). Right click svchost.exe and select Properties. Click the Services tab and you will see what services are running under svchost.exe.

Go to Start>Run, type in msconfig and press Enter. Then look through the entries in the Startup list for anything suspicious (especially anything that says "explorer.exe").

Another option is to download Process Explorer. When the "explorer.exe" dialog appears, look at the Process Explorer list (you may need to right click in the column header and click Select Columns..., to add the Window Title column) for the "explorer.exe" titled window. Right click on it, then select Properties. In the Image tab, you can see the full command that started the program - this will give you an idea of where it's running from, and what it's trying to run, or at least something more specific to search for.

Unfortunately you can't add op those numbers and see how much memory is in use, it doesn't work like that (and task manager sucks).

Use RAMMap to see where your RAM is going. Use Process Explorer for a much more clever task manager.

HD4000 is a gpu integrated in your cpu, so no dedicated gfxcard.
I'd recommend you to get an SSD and more ram. Also 1,5GB+ seem a bit excessive to me even if you played games.
Maybe you can set it to 512 - 1G in your BIOS (play with the settings and look out for stability - process explorer is a nice tool to keep an eye out for your resources )
Also check if you have a free ram slot before you buy them :) As far as SSDs go I'd recommend a Samsung EVO 850. Haven't had any problems so far.

But I'm surprised that your system is slow even after a clean install..
Try to find the bottle neck or what it is that you perceive as slow.
Or install linux on your machine and check if it still feels slow (not sure if bloatware comes with your windows version).

So, it's normal for the CPU to momentarily spike when you open an applications. How long is the CPU usage spike?

It's also normal when you've just installed Windows for there to be a high CPU load. Windows is doing all sorts of background tasks, like installing more than 200 Windows updates, recompiling/optimizing the .NET assemblies, etc.

Which tasks are using your CPU? Consider using Process Explorer it offers a much more indepth view of what's going on than the standard task manager.

Huh. Well, that is probably your issue. You just have to get whatever is locking the file to let go. Seems Microsoft provides a tool you can use to figure out what process is using the file called Process Explorer. A reboot would also probably free it.

Run the built-in Disk Cleanup application to clean up temporary files.
Something may have hid itself there.

run this on a command prompt to search for Java Web Start application entry points:

dir /a /s /b c:*.jnlp

If it happens again, you can use Process Explorer or Process Hacker to view additional information on processes, including their startup directory and command line (which may yield details about what's running), as well as showing processes as a tree (which may yield details about how they were launched)

For the file conflict, load up Process Explorer (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx), do a search on the file/folder you're trying to delete by clicking on the binoculars icon. Clicking on a result will shift the main window's view to show you what the result is referring to. Right click on any process parent all the way up before you get to explorer.exe and kill the whole tree by right clicking and selecting kill process tree. Repeat until all the results are worked through. Search again and repeat until they're dead dead. You can now remove that folder.

Outside of that, you may be very near backing up stuff you want to save and formatting your drive.

The trick to finding the best performance is identifying the current bottle neck:

How is the current CPU is it using all core what is the usage level?

GPU is key for 3d rendering how is it performing?

SSD is a huge upgrade for many workloads what is the disk doing?

I've done a lot with building high end rigs but don't have much experience with 3ds max.

One tool that is really nice for watching a systems performance is: Process Explorer from Microsoft and Mark Russinovich https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

It allows you to see process usage in much more detail then task manager including GPU usage!

I would try:

TDSSKiller
adwCleaner
NOD32 Online Scanner
Hitman Pro

You could also download the Sysinternals utility "Process Explorer" ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx ) .. unzip and launch it,.. drop-down the OPTIONS menu and turn ON the "Virus Total" feature... which adds a column to the display/chart that shows the HASH of all real-time processes and compares it to the database up on www.virustotal.com

If none of those work,.. you could always resort to a bootable scanning CD. Lots of different manufacturers offer them:

Microsoft Defender Offline
Panda Safe CD
Kaspersky Rescue Disc
ESET SysRescue Live
etc..etc

I've seen this before after a share was moved to a new server. Word seems to look for the old server.

Are you saving to a mapped drive? Any difference if you browse the Network to the server, then the share? Same delay in saving?

You might try using Process Explorer to watch what is going on. Exclude everything except WINWORD.EXE and try a file save.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

CCleaner does not remove viruses.ESET has a powerful free online scanner http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/

Run it and restart your PC.

Then run Sysinternals Process Explorer as administrator https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Open Sysinternals and make it full screen.Go to Options and check Verify image signatures

Go to Options>Virustotal.com> select Check virustotal.com.

While Process Explorer window is maximized, take screenshot, upload it to imgur and post the link here.If not all processes are visible then scroll down to show them, take another image that shows the rest of the processes and post the second image here.The goal is to show us all processes, their signature validity and virustotal results.

Process explorer, or just the whole sysinternals suite (lots of useful utilities in there and it's only 13MB). And malwarebytes anti malware, some malware stops you from downloading the real version on an infected pc.

When transcoding does the fan kick into 'high gear'? Could you download and use a program like HWmonitor to view the temperatures? Used in conjunction with CPU-Z, you could determine when/if it is being throttled by thermal limits.

I've seen many laptops reach their thermal limits prematurely due to dust/hair/"gunk" buildup in the fan/heatsink shroud. Can you check to see if this is the case?

While transcoding, run Task Manager and on the Performance tab, CPU section, right click in the graph portion and select Show Kernel Times. This will show the OS kernel time as a portion of the overall CPU usage as darker colored area in the graph. It shouldn't be very high.

Also you could use a program such as Process Explorer (or, if you're feeling intrepid, Process Hacker - it just shows more techy details) to determine what, if any, other programs are using CPU time and specifics about them.

I would run Display Driver Uninstaller and do a clean with shutdown(make sure in safe mode), then take the graphics card out and wait a minute before inserting it back in. Once done with that install the latest AMD driver which is 14.12 Omega into a different folder on your SSD. From there install and run process explorer along with GPUZ in sensor tab, then do a benchmark test using something like Uniengine Valley 1.0 and check both GPUZ with Process Exp for anything unusual while your having the FPS spikes/instability if it is still present after you did the clean uninstall and reinstall of drivers.

Edit: Also reload BIOS settings to default. Check you CPU/GPU usage while the PC is idle if its over 5% or so it may suggest malware/virus running in the background. Check to see what your CPU temps are as well during idle and load.

Get ProcessExplorer. Right click it and run as administrator.

Do:

Option --> Verify Image Signatures.

Option --> Check VirusTotal.com

Post a screenshot of all the processes for us to see after it has finished checking the processes.

If you download Process Explorer you can find the process that's causing it easily. There's an I/O graph and in there you'll find another graph for network. Hovering over that will show you what application is consuming it.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

I had multiwars too, but it kept crashing so tried other ways to launch 2 clients. Was messing with registry, files and other stuff (100% Trial and Error) and finally got it working, thanks to www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/582-multiple-guild-wars-2-clients-running-on-1-computer/#entry21242

Make copy of GW2 folder, one copy per account
Make second windows user (with admin rights?)
Download process explorer https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Have to do following everytime you want to launch another client

Start first client, go to process explorer and close handle "AN-Mutex-Window-Guild Wars 2" http://i.imgur.com/ArEIGId.png
Start second client by keeping shift down and right click shortcut/exe. Choose "run as different user". Enter second windows user username/password

Edit: Tested only on Windows 7 64bit.

Nothing should really be writing to your hosts file, so the fact that Avira is telling you something was blocked from writing to it, means... something is trying to. It sounds like there is some kind of malware, trojan, or virus or something trying to write an entry to your hosts file. I would start doing some digging and figure out what is going on. Something like process explorer might be able to tell you what is actually trying to access the hosts file.

Download Microsoft ProcessExplorer. Open it up while your CPU is under load and click through the process tree until you found the culprit. "Unistack Service Group" is just a host container and maybe you are able to pin down the cpu-consumer.

I would guess either a driver issue or your GPU is still being taxed, possibly by FAH not pausing work properly. You might try reinstalling FAH or your GPU drivers to see if that fixes anything.

Alternately, if you have already done this I would suggest using Process Explorer to see if something is using your GPU when you think everything is idle. You'd need to add the GPU column by clicking on View > Select Columns tab > Process GPU > GPU Usage > OK

Pagefile settings require a restart if you are making is smaller. I wouldn't recommend disabling it.

Process explorer https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx may be able to help you identify what is writing to the disk.

Use Process explorer to identify what uses you gpu. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx?tduid=(ffdd82a54b9236566f9275f463bd13e4)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-vVutl8ANY8TGcC9XmMKJFA)()

Try Process Explorer. It's basically Task Manager on steroids and you can kill processes with it and see the path of the fake McAfee executable. Maybe this will bring you closer to your well deserved gummer ;) After you have killed the process you can try uninstalling the fake Antivirus our get your hijacked programs back.

If this is installed you either got a nvidia+intel laptop with new drivers or a third party program is interfering.

For the latter:

Process Explorer

View -> "Show Lower Pane"
View -> "Lower Pane View" -> DLLs
Start GW2
Click on GW2 in process explorer
Look for non-microsoft DLLs
Post them here

Also what version of windows 10 are you using? Win+R type "winver"

Way better to read. :-)

It seems that Windows doesn't log anything related to this, probably because this is considered a feature (which -in my opinion- is broken since Windows 8, because you can't see the application which is still running anymore).
It is also impossible to let a 3rd party tool check for running applications, since it would interfere with the shutdown itself.

Can you try the following:

initialize a shutdown
wait till you see the "This app prevents from shutting-down" message
click on a button which says something along the lines of "Cancel" (it will vary, since you are using a localized version of Windows)
Open Process Explorer
Choose "File"->"Show Details for All Processes"
Allow privilege escalation (click "Yes" in the "Do you want to allow this application to modify your computer?" dialog)
make a screenshot of the list of processes and post it here
close process explorer

That list should not contain any private information since it a) only lists the running processes, not what they are actually doing and b) most applications are already terminated, since you tried to shut down. Process Explorer is a tool published (and digitally signed) by Microsoft intended for power users and IT-professionals, which means that it can be trusted and that you should be very careful when using it - it is operating with administrative privileges and has some features which can potentially mess some things up.

I would suggest downloading Process Explorer to find out which services are running (Scroll down to process explorer part) and figure out which ones you can turn off/disable while gaming. Not all services need to be running 24/7 but be careful which ones you disable completely, make sure you do adequate research.

What is your CPU usage at idle? Also, open up Process Monitor while you're playing and it will show you which threads are nailing your cpu.

Sounds like a Windows service is having troubles. Unfortunately multiple services can reside in a single svchost.exe process instance. Microsoft has a tool called Process Explorer that can allow you to delve deeper. A few things you can do to find the problem:

If the svchost.exe has a sub process shown in the default graph and it's using 6GB of RAM you're golden
You can right click -> properties the process and go to the "services" tabs to at least know what services are in that instance
You can click the 6th icon in the menu that looks like gears to view DLLs associated with the process. From here you get a new pane, if you right click a column header you can select additional columns to list about each DLL - check "WS Total Bytes", close the dialog, and sort by that column.

There are other ways to find this info but Process Explorer puts it all into a nice GUI and it has a ton more features as well.

Once you have narrowed down the offending process/DLL/service you can start troubleshooting the issue.

Use ProcessExplorer to follow the process. You can follow the launch of Chrome and see where it hangs/slows or whatever.

Really though, this probably adds up to 1 of maybe 3 possibilities given the fact that you have reinstalled Chrome: Dying ssd/hdd Chrome plugins/settings(?) Malware/virii

If you click the Users tab and expand the logged in user, do you get any different numbers under Network?

Try running Process Explorer from https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx. See if the Network Send and Network Receive Bytes shows anything different.

Was this temperature measured while running IntelBurnTest? Measuring it without stress testing software is unreliable.

The clock speed looks normal, some boards allow for a bit of turbo boosting even under a sustained high CPU load.

Observe the system using Process explorer, is anything (but the game) using the CPU?

You can try running a speed test on the pc that works and this laptop and compare them together. This would pretty much rule out a driver issue. If you were to get 20mb up/down on your pc, and the same results on the laptop the drivers are probly fine.

Does it do this with netflix or youtube HD? these services do buffer so it wouldnt indicate a speed issue or anything like that, but if it does pause and stutter every few seconds it can be an issue with the pc (possibly hard drive failing, could just need a fresh install)

check the forums for your laptop provider and see if others are having network problems.

if you have msword or anything with a slower speed check open it up and just start slapping the keyboard and see if the computer ever chokes on that too.

not sure if any of them are actual issues, but things to look at.

last suggestion is if its not a fresh install of windows 10 (upgraded) it could be a messy upgrade, which most things should have this stutter issue too in which case, installing windows 10 again clean :(. You can try digging into process explorer (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396) to see if something is crushing cpu or ram when the stutters happen.

/u/britneyfan666 says he has the same hardware and its fine, so i'd lean towards windows or hardware problems at that point.

No, you should not uninstall those. They are installed by other programs (often games through Steam). Each program installs the one that it works with, which is why there are multiples. Removing them would mean that the program that installed them probably wouldn't run properly (if at all).

Generally, looking for things to remove in Add/Remove Programs isn't the best thing to do because although those programs are installed, they aren't necessarily running, which means they wouldn't be slowing down your computer.

If you'd like a more advanced view of what is running on your computer, take a look at Process Explorer, https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Try observing what your system is actually doing while you start an application by running Process Explorer. What's the CPU load? Is it high or low?

If it's low, possibly something is wrong with the SSD. Verify its speed with AS SSD.

If it's high, then possibly it's caused by Norton, or from running a combination of security software (don't do that), or by Microsoft's new telemetry crap. Try to see which process is using the CPU.

I am addicted to Process Explorer. Every time I boot PC I always start Process Explorer on second monitor and watch numbers all the time. PE reads everything in Kernel mode so you get much more than in resmon. If you like this kind of programs you should definitely check out PE. That's my habit too.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

What kind of computer/processor do you have? It is possible that the system is taking RAM in order to drive the onboard graphics, if you have an Intel processor.

http://www.pvladov.com/2013/10/increase-intel-hd-graphics-dedicated-video-memory.html

In addition, using Process Explorer is usually a little easier to find out what may be using the RAM. It's Task Manager on steroids.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Most likely a program has a memory leak.

I can't remember which one it is, but download RAMMap and Process Explorer then go to the RAM part and sort by highest RAM usage like you did with task manager.

Check if anything is out of the ordinary using these apps instead of task manager. I think it was Process Explorer that I used to find a problem at work that a program had duplicated the process hundreds of times over time which took up more and more RAM.

Check out Sysinternals Process Explorer and Process Monitor

They have others that may be useful as well.

I just looked at which IP address my client connected :)

I used Process Explorer (nice tool from Sysinternals / Microsoft), but that's just because it's a tool I often use, there are probably simpler ways to see that...

No, Process explorer.

I believe you can go to View>Lower Planel>Handles and then click on a process and it will tell which files it's using. Alternatively you can use 'Find' to search for 'loginTimes.dat'. It should bring up a list of processes using that file.

Resource monitor is pretty good but when it is missing something I try process explorer. It's not built into windows so you'll have to down load it. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Click the System Information button and look at the I/O graph. Mouse over it to see what process is using the IO.

Moves more of the spectrum of what people dump into "RAM" into actual loaded RAM when it might help. Also the Windows services are built to stretch and squeeze a bit to be faster or leaner as resources permit, nobody cares if you can load some system file from memory that you may use if you can't open your browser.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-task-manager-memory-columns-mean#1TC=windows-7 is a good dictionary on types https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx is a good way to see what's being allocated by type https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx is more a better task manager that also happens to let you peak into memory allocations per process more.

Hopefully that helps in some way, memory from a OS perspective can be confusing. Windows 10 adds even more things things like compression before things hit virtual memory on disk.

As a random factoid you'll often hear superfetch throws things into RAM and you should leave it on to save you SSD - in actuality Windows 7 and newer should detect that you have an SSD and not superfetch anything automatically. The premise is correct but the reasoning is backwards - generally the OS knows how to use your hardware most effectively.

Use handle, Process Explorer, or Process Hacker to find out the program that has opened the file in question and has not closed it.

I've been fortunate enough to not run into any unkillable process hangs on W7/8/10 ... - I use Microsoft Sysinternals' Process Explorer to kill misbehaving apps (or threads)...

What sort of stuff have you seen hang un-kilalbly?

I would check with Process Explorer. Run it as administrator and put a tick in "Verify Image Signatures" and "Check Virustotal" in the options. Those processes should be digitally signed by Microsoft.

Instead of task manager, use Process Explorer. It gives you extra information that will make it easier to find a suspicious process. Since you aren't seeing the problem in safe mode, you'll want to check this when you boot up normally.

First, this isn't a problem, certain software does this, but it doesn't negatively influence the system. As you can see on the other counters there is plenty of free and cache memory.

Try running Process Explorer. Right click the columns, "Select columns...", "Process Memory", check the "Virtual Size" checkbox. Sort the overview by "Virtual Size" and hopefully it will show which program is doing this. I believe for instance Oracle's Database engine (also used by SAP) does this.

Here are a few more things I would try:

scan with NOD32 Online Scanner
download Sysinternals "Process Explorer" (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx)... launch it and click on the TOOLS menu and turn on the "Virus Total" functionality. That will take a fingerprint of all your running processes and compare it to the database up on www.virustotal.com ... might help you isolate if there's a nefarious process running in the background.

Hi, i had the same problem.
It was chrome with an open tab of YouTube.

Download process Explorer.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
This program lists much more than your normal task manager. If the process "system" draining a lot of power you may be have the same problem like me where you hardware interrupts go crazy (the normal task manager includes hardware interrupts in the process system)
Restart your pc, open process Explorer and sort by CPU %.
There shouldn't be much and the system idle process should be on the top with 90+%. The second should be process Explorer with ~ 3 %. Third should be system.
If there is something you don't know that's using a lot of CPU: Right klick - > search online to see if it is important / not crap.
Let process Explorer open and try to recreate the "hot while sleeping" situation. ( for me an open YouTube video in chrome).
Wait till hot and see what's at the top of your CPU usage. ( for me it was hardware interrupts. You can't turn process off. I found that it was chrome causing the interrupts. Chrome it self had not much CPU usage.)
Now you can:
a) stop leaving chrome with a video open if you let your pc sleep ( or whatever causes the problem)
b ) set your settings to shut down instead of sleeping when you close your cover

PS : if you find a process that's drains a lot of power. Try the program autoruns to prevent that from starting. ( there are good YouTube tutorials how to do that). If you have no clue what you are doing don't do it.
PPS : autoruns and process Explorer are both from Microsoft and 100% trust worthy.

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