System is extremely slow. Taskbar screenshot attached.

[joelelias333]

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

 

[werty]

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

Good luck, werty

 

[joelelias333]

Thanks. Will post the attachment post that.

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

 

[theveterans]

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.

 

[joelelias333]

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.

 

[Cliff S]

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:
[TABLE="class: specTable"]
[TR]
[TH="class: groupHead, colspan: 2"]Memory[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: specsKey"]Expandable Memory[/TD]
[TD="class: specsValue"] Upto 8 GB [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: specsKey"]System Memory[/TD]
[TD="class: specsValue"] 2 GB DDR3 [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: specsKey"]Memory Slots[/TD]
[TD="class: specsValue"] 2 (Unused Slot - 1) [/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

 

[joelelias333]

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...

 

[Cliff S]

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...

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.

 

[joelelias333]

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?

 

[Cliff S]

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’.