System is extremely slow. Taskbar screenshot attached.

Hi,

I got my dad a Samsung NP355E5C-A01IN couple of years ago. I noticed it was a little slow but then I left for holidays and he managed with it. Recently it got so bad again that I did a factory reset on it (he had less than 400MB of files) & surprise surprise... The problem still persists. I took a closer look at the taskbar and it showed some alarming numbers!

Attaching screenshot here. (Note: I only had a bluetooth speaker connected, chrome with two tabs running, the 8.1 update getting downloaded in the background.)

No idea what is happening here.

Thanks,
Joel

Windows Update is a frequent resource hog. Let it install the updates and then restart PC.

Good luck, werty

Thanks. Will post the attachment post that.

But the number were the same before the upload as well.

You have your RAM almost maxed out and your Disk usage maxed and certainly will slow your system to a crawl. How much RAM does your laptop have and as for the disk usage, you can sort the tab to find the process with highest disk usage.

Hey there... Thanks for replying.

This is the systems specs.
AMD E2 1800 APU 1.70GHz
2.00 GB RAM (1.59 usable)

And I took screenshots of the disk and RAM as asked.


Any idea how to resolve this. The system is very difficult to handle when it is acting so slow.

You have the bare minimum for RAM:
Windows 8.1 If you want to run Windows 8.1 on your PC, here's what it takes:

• Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 (more info)
  
• RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
  
• Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

If you want to do anything constructive you'll have to get more. As soon as you're on a network(internet) that eats up your RAM. I took a look and you can expand up to more:

Thanks! But the system is running Win 8. That is just as bad eh?

I guess I'll visit the service center for putting i an additional 2gb or something...

joelelias333 said:

Thanks! But the system is running Win 8. That is just as bad eh?

I guess I'll visit the service center for putting i an additional 2gb or something...

Click to expand...

RAM isn't that expensive you can put up to 6GB more in. A total of 4GB is OK but 8GB is the "Sweet Spot" where when multitasking(playing music, surfing and using an office program has no freezes or memory bottlenecks. On my windows 7 laptop that came with 4GB I was getting a lot of freezing because windows had to use it's virtual memory(page file), and after I took out the Hard Disk and installed a SSD I never had any problems after. But one step at a time first.

Thanks! Appreciate the input... Just one last question. In the screenshot, the usage of disk is shown as 99% & 100% even thought the usage shown is only at 2.6 MB/s... Should I be worried?

It could be because you have so little ram, the the page file(virtual memory) is being used heavily, and that causes a lot of writes. To see what is being done check out Resource Monitor under the Disk tab and click both the Write fields(top & bottom).
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But no I do not believe it's a problem. Till you get more ram you could use a USB pendrive readyboost in windows. Just plug in a flashdrive with at least 4GB Format it.

Right click on the pen drive icon.

Select ‘properties’.