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My computer will randomly slow down A LOT. I'll be in a game, and suddenly it will be maybe 5 FPS sometimes. Everything but the mouse on my computer will be extremely slow, even the little click and drag boxes you make on the desktop will be super laggy. I check my temps and nothing is going over 60C. All my drivers are updated.
Mysterious CPU usage in the middle of the night isn't all that mysterious.There are a number of things that are automatically configured to run when youmight be sleeping.
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I have an ALIENWARE M17x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Laptop with Windows7 Ultimate SP1, I use this computer almost 18 hrs a day. My weird problem is that almost between 12 to 2 o'clock in the morning, the system slows down rapidly and sometimes it hangs up. It seems like it's loading the CPU because the CPU usage meter reads almost 96%. This condition happens almost every day. Although only Yahoo or Skype are open. I really don't know why it happens. I would appreciate any thoughts you might have. Adobe acrobat for mac office max.
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In this excerpt from Answercast #38, I look at a high CPU usage in the middle of the night that,honestly, doesn't surprise me.
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Late night slow-down
Yea, I've got a couple of thoughts actually.
- One: to avoid any guessing, I would go out and get a copyof ProcessExplorer, the free process management tool you can get from Sysinternalsand have that running.
I mean, a few minutes before midnight, fire that thing up. Have the displaysorted by CPU usage (you can see how to do that in my article, 'Howdo I find out who's hogging all the CPU?')
That will show you in real time which applications or which files areactually using all of the CPU. You can then immediately identify who it isthat's slowing your machine down so dramatically.
Late night malware scans
Now, without that information even, I still have a couple of really goodguesses.
Between midnight and two o'clock in the morning. I'm willing to betthat:
Your anti-malware tools are starting up a scan;
And/or Windows is automatically firing up a defrag of the hard disk;
Or some other task that Windows plans to do for maintenance is scheduled tostart up automatically between midnight and two o'clock in the morning.
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Task manager
The easiest way, honestly, to find out exactly what's happening is usingProcess Explorer, like I explained a moment ago.
But if you're really curious, you could go into the Task Manager.
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If you take a look at Control Panel, you'll find thatthere's an Administrative tools section and there is theTask Scheduler.
If you poke around in there a little bit, I'll think you'll find that thereare a number of scheduled tasks that Windows has prepared for you.
My guess is that you will find your anti-malware tools there as well.
Perhaps your backup program, if you're running one.
Perhaps Windows own defragger, or other maintenance utility, is firing upautomatically as well.
If those turn out to be the problem, then you have a couple of options.
Manage the schedule
The biggest option you have is to:
Simply change the schedule at which those things are happening.
Stagger them a little bit better so that they're not all trying to start atonce.
Or if they have options to be run in a less impactful way (as some of theanti-malware tools often do), change the way that they're configured to run.
All of it depends on exactly what it is that's firing up between twelve andtwo. And like I said, Process Explorer is the way to find out what it is: sinceyou happen to be awake and at the computer during the time it's happening.
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How do I find out what program is using all my CPU? Occasionally, one program will use up all of your computers processing resources. Using Process Explorer, it's easy to figure out which program that is.
- How do I reduce the amount of computer maintenance I'm supposed to do? Computer maintenance need not be a huge burden. Setting a few utilities up to run automatically can reduce the amount of manual work dramatically.
July 27, 2012 10:04 AM
Without anything else to go on, I agree it's probably a scanner/defragger set to run at midnight. (Given the CPU spike, it's probably not a defragger, which in my experience is disk I/O bound.) However, note that things like malware scans probably won't be in the task scheduler. Often, the program is running all the time, and is configured internally to start a scan at a certain time. So don't be surprised if you don't find anything in the task scheduler to explain the timing.
Follow Leo's advice -- get Process Explorer. I have it running all the time, since it takes very little CPU when minimized. It's also useful for finding out what program is eating up memory, not just CPU.
Chris RobertsJuly 27, 2012 3:09 PM
Hi, my computer slows down in the early hours too, so I installed Process Explorer as you suggested.
The problem is, I don't know what the readings mean or how to reduce CPU usage! You suggest changing or staggering processes.. I don't know where or how to do that either! Can you recommend a link to help with my inadequacies?
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