Windows process "System" is dramatically slowing down my computer?
I'm constantly using Windows Task Manager to end un-necessary processes that slow down or hinder my computer from performing at an optimum level, and I've looked up most of the various processes that my computer runs on http://www.processlibrary.com/ so that I know what I'm doing.
Yesterday, though, a process that I haven't seen before started running at the top of my processes when organized by Memory usage (uses 113k memory). Ever since, my computer has been acting quite odd. Each Firefox web browser page takes 8-12 seconds to load compared to the half-second that it normally requires, and my computer is being slow in general. I tried scanning for a trojan horse via AVG, but to no avail. I can 'end' the process, and it allows me to click 'Yes' when asked to confirm, but the process does not dissapear from the list, and it's memory usage stays at a constant 113, 556k.
Process (Image) name: System
User name: (blank)
CPU: 0~10
Thank you for your help.
PS: No, it does not say that it's system.exe or System Idle Process.
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humm i consider the System Process is solely idleing... so whilst ever your laptop has not anything to do it simply is going to that. Generally relies on how a lot ram you will have, you'll be able to disable different techniques that's chewing it up or get extra RAM. More so if u are gambling video games then time to appear at upgrading that GPU. In General RAM could make a method quite sluggish through making the running method change knowledge out to the very sluggish HD for maintain sake till required. RAM are very speedy. So when you dont have alot of RAM, there will likely be alot of swapping and that makes loading gradual. If you will have an epidemic the sluggish could hit a further approach, so appear round and take a look at to finish different strategies thats now not utilized by the method. Since the System approach doesnt also have .exe, if it does have an method.exe then u have an epidemic.
Not sure if by "I tried scanning for a trojan horse via AVG" you mean you told AVG to scan only for Trojan Horses, but if so, I'd back off and have it scan for anything and everything. A Trojan horse is malware that got onto your machine and running by claiming it was something else, something cool or useful. What it does thereafter, including what name it hides under, has nothing to do with being or not being a Trojan.
You might also want to scan in Safe Mode With Networking, which sometimes keeps malware from protecting itself.
To get into Safe Mode with Networking:
1. Log out and reboot your machine.
2. When the machine starts the reboot sequence, press the F8 key repeatedly.
3. Select Safe Mode with Networking from the resulting menu.
4. Login. If the malware has changed your password, try logging in as Administrator. By default, Administrator has no password.
5. The machine will continue booting, but the Windows desktop will look different.
6. When you're finished doing what you need to do, log out and reboot back into normal mode.
Good luck.
My pc was really slow and then I got creative. I uninstalled all the programs that I didn't use and it made it a lot faster. Also what you can do is delete shortcuts and programs from your desktop because that will slow down your computer in the long run.