I don't know how to explain this very well, so if you can bear with me, that would be appreciated.
For the last couple of days, I've had a computer issue. It's nothing overtly serious, but it's different from the norm and has me concerned. I'm a very OCD person and am always deleting my internet history, cookies, and the like as well as running the disk clean-up. I just like for my computer to run at its best. And, up until now, I have not had an issue. But, on Monday, when I tried to delete the history (and everything else included), it worked, but the screen showing the progress of it deleting the history became frozen. If I hit cancel, it would then show it canceling, but it was still frozen and I would have to end the process through the task manager. The same thing would happen when I tried to put documents or photos in the recycle bin and, again, if I chose to empty the recycle bin. And, where the disk clean-up is concerned, it typically does the same thing -- shows that it is working, but never does and, instead, freezes until I end the task in the task manager. It's not the whole system that freezes, but it does slow everything down.
I purchased my laptop in July of 2009. It's a Toshiba Satellite L305. The processor is Intel(R) Pentium(R) Duel CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz 2.17GHz. Memory RAM is 3.00 GB and it's a 32 bit operating system. I have Windows Vista Home Premium. When I open the task manager, under performance it shows CPU usage 54% at the moment and memory 1.08 GB. Physical memory total is 2939, cached 2116, free 32. Physical memory is at 37% at the moment. Kernel memory total is 161, paged 96, nonpaged 65. I currently have one tab open on IE and the task manager open. Nothing else. I have run my virus protection software and it comes up clean as well as Windows Defender and Malware Bytes (just installed to ensure I had nothing else going on -- the problem precedes my installing Malware Bytes). I don't have a lot on my computer and have uninstalled any software (ie. games) that could possibly have caused a problem. I defragged my system yesterday, but nothing has changed.
Everything else is running well, but it's driving me crazy that I don't know why I'm having this sudden issue. Any ideas? Please? Thanks in advance!
Edited to add: The laptop may be running a little hot, but that may be because I'm obsessing over everything. I just thought I should mention that in case it makes a difference.
For the last couple of days, I've had a computer issue. It's nothing overtly serious, but it's different from the norm and has me concerned. I'm a very OCD person and am always deleting my internet history, cookies, and the like as well as running the disk clean-up. I just like for my computer to run at its best. And, up until now, I have not had an issue. But, on Monday, when I tried to delete the history (and everything else included), it worked, but the screen showing the progress of it deleting the history became frozen. If I hit cancel, it would then show it canceling, but it was still frozen and I would have to end the process through the task manager. The same thing would happen when I tried to put documents or photos in the recycle bin and, again, if I chose to empty the recycle bin. And, where the disk clean-up is concerned, it typically does the same thing -- shows that it is working, but never does and, instead, freezes until I end the task in the task manager. It's not the whole system that freezes, but it does slow everything down.
I purchased my laptop in July of 2009. It's a Toshiba Satellite L305. The processor is Intel(R) Pentium(R) Duel CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz 2.17GHz. Memory RAM is 3.00 GB and it's a 32 bit operating system. I have Windows Vista Home Premium. When I open the task manager, under performance it shows CPU usage 54% at the moment and memory 1.08 GB. Physical memory total is 2939, cached 2116, free 32. Physical memory is at 37% at the moment. Kernel memory total is 161, paged 96, nonpaged 65. I currently have one tab open on IE and the task manager open. Nothing else. I have run my virus protection software and it comes up clean as well as Windows Defender and Malware Bytes (just installed to ensure I had nothing else going on -- the problem precedes my installing Malware Bytes). I don't have a lot on my computer and have uninstalled any software (ie. games) that could possibly have caused a problem. I defragged my system yesterday, but nothing has changed.
Everything else is running well, but it's driving me crazy that I don't know why I'm having this sudden issue. Any ideas? Please? Thanks in advance!
Edited to add: The laptop may be running a little hot, but that may be because I'm obsessing over everything. I just thought I should mention that in case it makes a difference.
) Browsers do use quite a large amount of memory but I'm cure not that much, the things you have uninstalled may have perhaps not been uninstalled properly. You should reinstall the programs then get rid of them with something like, "Revo Uninstaller" The reason I switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox was because of Internet Explorer freezing when loading pages, I think it happens to many computers. You should run chkdsk, to do so, go to the "Start" menu, go to "Accessories" and select "Run" type "cmd" and press OK. Then you should type chkdsk /f, it should say something like, "The volume is in use by another process etc." It should say (Y/N) select Y and then shut down your computer, start it again and chkdsk will run. You can turn of unneeded services by going into Control Panel, then go into Administrative Tools and select Component Services and turn off whichever ones seem unnecessary. If none of this works, just ask, I'd be happy to help ;]
