Clean Up or Buy New PC?

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Originally Posted by Juniper

How's this:

Good. That is the information page. According to those numbers, at that time the machine was screaming fast. I still don't see numbers that are most imporant. For example CPU time (not memory usage) should be ordered so that the process consuming most of the CPU is topmost.

Also do same for Mem Delta (not Memory usage).

It looks like McAfee is loaded. Also are somethings called WPwizard, SEPCsuite, and SZserver that I am not familiar with. More important is a list reordered to see what is consuming CPU time AND to see the same list when some task is executing painfully slow. Same also repeated for Memory Deltas.

Another useful statistic may be Page Fault or PF Delta.

Now to learn a useful tool. Click on and then left click on WPwizard. Then end the process tree. This to learn what that process is attached to AND to see what happens when the process is no longer loaded. This same technique can be used on processes that are consuming excessive CPU or Memory Deltas to discover what is or where that process came from. SZServer may refuse to terminate. Not too important. But doing same to processes consuming resource or creating bottlenecks is informative.

A minor point - it appears that 64K is missing from the physical memory. Not significant and not enough to cause a major slowness. Curious; maybe relevant; but currently not significant.