Mule Posted May 8, 2014 Member ID: 390 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 411 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 4252 Content Per Day: 0.74 Reputation: 3052 Achievement Points: 35639 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 28, 2024 Birthday: 05/08/1959 Device: Windows Posted May 8, 2014 (edited) I'm running vista with nothing open cpu usage is 53% how do I know what to shut down? Also how to keep it shut down also anyone the knows I have crossloop if you want to do it for me TY in advance! Edited May 8, 2014 by Mule Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted May 8, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted May 8, 2014 I'm running vista with nothing open cpu usage is 53% how do I know what to shut down? Also how to keep it shut down also anyone the knows I have crossloop if you want to do it for me TY in advance! if it's not a regular occurrence you probably just have a run-away thread from a game. Use Ctrl+alt+Del to get to the task manager. From there you can see what process is taking all the resources. You can always google the process name if it looks unfamiliar. You can kill the thread manually from the task manager. Be careful though. You are plucking at the heart strings of a crappy and unstable OS. baldie, blk_plague and Mule 3
KingStinger! Posted May 10, 2014 Member ID: 2465 Group: +++ Minecraft Head Admin Followers: 30 Topic Count: 170 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1818 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 1937 Achievement Points: 14560 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 05/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 20 Birthday: 04/17/1972 Device: Windows Posted May 10, 2014 its been a long time since i used vista, I would start by upgrading to Win7 But if i remember correctly go to start then run and there you need to type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks) then hit enter. When the screen pops up under the general tab check the box that says SELECTIVE STARTUP then go too the startup tab and you can pretty much uncheck anything that you dont need running which is pretty close too everything except things like your antivirus. Once done, click APPLY and then close the window. It will prompt you to restart. Do that. If youre unsure of what to uncheck or leave checked take a screen shot of the screen with the start up tab an post it here. I or someone else can walk you through it. Its quite simple. Hope that helps! Mule 1 Awards
Labob Posted May 10, 2014 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8389 Content Per Day: 1.47 Reputation: 6126 Achievement Points: 54468 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 22 Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Posted May 10, 2014 You have lots of things open . You just don't see them running. Try this out http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 Also what King Stinger said use msconfig / startup you can uncheck everything and be good to go. I would recomend you leave you AV on though. Mule, baldie and eidolonFIRE 3 Awards
Sammy Posted May 10, 2014 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted May 10, 2014 As always do thourough scans for baddies. Also in this particular case look to see if that process is doing a lot of read/write operations. Awards
Mule Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 390 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 411 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 4252 Content Per Day: 0.74 Reputation: 3052 Achievement Points: 35639 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 28, 2024 Birthday: 05/08/1959 Device: Windows Author Posted May 11, 2014 its been a long time since i used vista, I would start by upgrading to Win7 But if i remember correctly go to start then run and there you need to type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks) then hit enter. When the screen pops up under the general tab check the box that says SELECTIVE STARTUP then go too the startup tab and you can pretty much uncheck anything that you dont need running which is pretty close too everything except things like your antivirus. Once done, click APPLY and then close the window. It will prompt you to restart. Do that. If youre unsure of what to uncheck or leave checked take a screen shot of the screen with the start up tab an post it here. I or someone else can walk you through it. Its quite simple. Hope that helps! That did it I for got the msconfig part running 3% now. KingStinger! 1 Awards
Mule Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 390 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 411 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 4252 Content Per Day: 0.74 Reputation: 3052 Achievement Points: 35639 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 28, 2024 Birthday: 05/08/1959 Device: Windows Author Posted May 11, 2014 You have lots of things open . You just don't see them running. Try this out http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 Also what King Stinger said use msconfig / startup you can uncheck everything and be good to go. I would recomend you leave you AV on though. All good now ty running 3% now Awards
Sammy Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted May 11, 2014 Well... not yet because you need to find out what the problem was and fix it. KingStinger! 1 Awards
BigPapaDean Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) its been a long time since i used vista, I would start by upgrading to Win7 But if i remember correctly go to start then run and there you need to type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks) then hit enter. When the screen pops up under the general tab check the box that says SELECTIVE STARTUP then go too the startup tab and you can pretty much uncheck anything that you dont need running which is pretty close too everything except things like your antivirus. Once done, click APPLY and then close the window. It will prompt you to restart. Do that. If youre unsure of what to uncheck or leave checked take a screen shot of the screen with the start up tab an post it here. I or someone else can walk you through it. Its quite simple. Hope that helps! If you are not sure what to turn off then turn everything off. When you reboot the things the pc needs will restart anyway. I use to run Vista too and never had a problem doing that every time! Mule when was the last time you manually scanned your pc with something like Mal-ware Bytes? Edited May 11, 2014 by BigPapaDean eidolonFIRE, Mule and KingStinger! 3 Awards
KingStinger! Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 2465 Group: +++ Minecraft Head Admin Followers: 30 Topic Count: 170 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1818 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 1937 Achievement Points: 14560 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 05/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 20 Birthday: 04/17/1972 Device: Windows Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) That did it I for got the msconfig part running 3% now.Glad it worked for you, I cared so much i typed all that from my hotel room here in Cancun Mexico lol Edited May 11, 2014 by KingStinger! Mule 1 Awards
KingStinger! Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 2465 Group: +++ Minecraft Head Admin Followers: 30 Topic Count: 170 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1818 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 1937 Achievement Points: 14560 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 05/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 20 Birthday: 04/17/1972 Device: Windows Posted May 11, 2014 If you are not sure what to turn off then turn everything off. When you reboot the things the pc needs will restart anyway. I use to run Vista too and never had a problem doing that every time! Mule when was the last time you manually scanned your pc with something like Mal-ware Bytes? Good point Dean, forgot that part.. For malware i scan with 2 programs because they both seem to catch things the other doesnt. I use Malwarebytes and Superantimalware. Both free and i recommend people too use them at least once a month minimum.. eidolonFIRE and Mule 2 Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted May 11, 2014 Good point Dean, forgot that part.. For malware i scan with 2 programs because they both seem to catch things the other doesnt. I use Malwarebytes and Superantimalware. Both free and i recommend people too use them at least once a month minimum.. cCleaner is also a nice tool for cleaning out your registry of old / invalid entries and also deleting lots of temp / cache data. BigPapaDean, Mule and KingStinger! 3
KingStinger! Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 2465 Group: +++ Minecraft Head Admin Followers: 30 Topic Count: 170 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1818 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 1937 Achievement Points: 14560 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 05/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 20 Birthday: 04/17/1972 Device: Windows Posted May 11, 2014 cCleaner is also a nice tool for cleaning out your registry of old / invalid entries and also deleting lots of temp / cache data.cCleaner is a good program to but can be very dangerous to the novice user. I would never recommend using the registry fix tool on it either. Ive seen it cause more damage than good to the registry.. Mule 1 Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted May 11, 2014 cCleaner is a good program to but can be very dangerous to the novice user. I would never recommend using the registry fix tool on it either. Ive seen it cause more damage than good to the registry.. really? What OS? I've never had a problem with it.
KingStinger! Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 2465 Group: +++ Minecraft Head Admin Followers: 30 Topic Count: 170 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1818 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 1937 Achievement Points: 14560 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 05/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 20 Birthday: 04/17/1972 Device: Windows Posted May 11, 2014 Not any particular OS, i think just in general. It deleted old registry entries as well as repairs some and thats where sometimes it deleted or repairs a registry entry that it shouldnt. If the program see's certain criteria met, it makes the changes and doesnt always quite distinguish properly what is good or bad or needs or doesnt need fixing. Ive heard people say they havent had issues to but from the issues i have heard and seen, its not worth the risk. eidolonFIRE 1 Awards
BigPapaDean Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Posted May 11, 2014 really? What OS? I've never had a problem with it. Me either! Always improved after using it! Though if you use it to delete things you may have a prob just be careful! eidolonFIRE 1 Awards
7Toes Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27251 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) go to www.iobit.com and down load there free advanced system care the free version it has a gaming mode that shuts down unwanted programs and lets you pick which one or it will give you suggestions on which ones to shut down http://www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcareper.php Edited May 11, 2014 by 7toes_ky Mule 1 Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted May 11, 2014 go to www.iobit.com and down load there free advanced system care the free version it has a gaming mode that shuts down unwanted programs and lets you pick which one or it will give you suggestions on which ones to shut down http://www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcareper.php I'm always skeptical of those larger "boost your pc" deals.
BigPapaDean Posted May 11, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Posted May 11, 2014 go to www.iobit.com and down load there free advanced system care the free version it has a gaming mode that shuts down unwanted programs and lets you pick which one or it will give you suggestions on which ones to shut down http://www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcareper.php This was one of two things that caused me a hell of a lot of trouble a few months back. Depending on your pc you probably wouldn't need it anyway! I talked to a tech and HE said that Iobit has a reputation about causing problems with their programs. I had their virus protection and it gave me such headaches I had to have it manually removed! I wouldn't trust anything from IOBIT! tsw 8.5 and eidolonFIRE 2 Awards
Mule Posted May 12, 2014 Member ID: 390 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 411 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 4252 Content Per Day: 0.74 Reputation: 3052 Achievement Points: 35639 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 28, 2024 Birthday: 05/08/1959 Device: Windows Author Posted May 12, 2014 go to www.iobit.com and down load there free advanced system care the free version it has a gaming mode that shuts down unwanted programs and lets you pick which one or it will give you suggestions on which ones to shut down http://www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcareper.php I have used Game Booster 3 seems to help also. Awards
7Toes Posted May 12, 2014 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27251 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Posted May 12, 2014 i have used them for over 2 years now have had no problems with my computer works great Awards
Nobodygood>XI< Posted May 13, 2014 Member ID: 219 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 492 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 108 Achievement Points: 2906 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 2, 2018 Birthday: 04/28/1957 Posted May 13, 2014 I am not a fan of the all-in-one crap, But I have been running IObit for a few years and I am very happy with it In fact I paid for the full version, first time I ever did that with maintenance software Awards
7Toes Posted May 13, 2014 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27251 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Posted May 13, 2014 i just bought the Advanced systemcare ultimite for 3 computers for 19.99 its for 15 months i like the little extras Awards
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