Slow PC | Linus Tech Tips | Page 1

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From the provided information, your PC got possessed by evil creatures trying to devour it from inside

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Or it's just running too many background tasks

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Basically
Open Task Manager
See what's running in the Processes tab

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That will not only tell you which app is using all the resources, but also which resources

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...

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Well, either way

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What does "slow to respond" mean exactly?

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And what exactly did you do right before this started happening?

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And what exactly are your specs?

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Thst sounds more like "the culprit" than "just that"

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What exactly are the "regular apps" and games?

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And how long have you been using the PC before it started happening?

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Yeah, what exactly is "etc"?

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Ah

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I do have a suspicion or few

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But before that, I need to know what exactly the slowdowns look like

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Is it laggy cursor? Or buttons not reacting? Or just low FPS in games, or also in the desktop?

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Okay, definitely look at Task Manager

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What we want to look at is CPU usage, GPU usage and disk usage

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What does the history graph show?

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How high?

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Got any games open?

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Windows Update?
Steam or Epic downloading stuff?

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No "Antimalware service executable" if you go to Processes and sort by CPU usage?

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Yup

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If it's using a lot of resources, wait till it's done and see if the responsivity goes back to normal

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Otherwise... Check the disk usage

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Unless you've got an NVMe SSD, that's most likely the culprit

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Is it a SATA drive?

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I mean, duh
You tell it to load a multi-GB game
That's what it's going to do, at the cost of performance to everything else

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Your spec sheet probably?

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Okay, riddle me this
Do the slowdowns happen in times other than a game or a big program running or loading?

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Okay, in task manager

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Go to Startup

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Disable literally everything you don't need to run at startup
Discord, Steam and Epic included

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And restart

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Still slow?

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Yeee

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I guess you can

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If it's fixed, the cause was probably a combo of "everything open" trying to steal resources

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Discord especially is a pretty big hog in app form

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It's why I use the web version instead

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