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Decent PC grinds to a halt with moderate usage of Chrome and Edge
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Decent HP Desktop running sluggish, mostly due to Chrome and Edge.
- HP Desktop 5082vS3 (750-114), 12 GB RAM, 64-bit PC, Windows 10 (OS 17134.523). 1.7 TB storage free, HDD.
I posted essentially the same question recently and got good advice, but wanted to follow up. I've been studying Task Manager for several weeks, and did a quick comparison to work, which runs great. Both have HDD.
So it's definitely Edge and Chrome that are killing the machine, while my government runs great running 2+ times more processes (mostly Chrome, Edge, PL-SQL Developer, SPSS, etc.)
Malwarebytes is running, all green, and runs every day. I also have McAfee running, also all green.
After like two weeks, government PC was at 16% CPU, 74% Memory, and 0% disk,
running 84 Chrome processes and 41 Edge processes. Also has HDD (500 GB).
Home system grinds to a halt
running 34 Chrome processes and 11 Edge processes
But basically after 3-4 days at home and essentially light usage (at night, web surfing, etc.), it grinds to a halt.
I used Epic browser only this week, and it's been hanging in at 60% Memory, 10% CPU, 1% Disk.
With Chrome and Edge running, often CPU spikes to 100%, Memory often get to 90% and Disk often at 100%! So much so that after 3-4 days I'm re-booting.
From last post:
Chrome extensions are minimal
No Edge extensions
I ran HP Diagnostics and everything passed
So with HDD at home and work, something's different obviously at home that causes Disk Usage to spike, as well as CPU and Memory ...
The plan from before was
- study Task Mgr (done)
- install ad blockers
- change to SSD (not too keen on this, and not sure this is the issue
but just wondered if you have any other thoughts.
At this point, using Epic seems a lot better.
- HP Desktop 5082vS3 (750-114), 12 GB RAM, 64-bit PC, Windows 10 (OS 17134.523). 1.7 TB storage free, HDD.
I posted essentially the same question recently and got good advice, but wanted to follow up. I've been studying Task Manager for several weeks, and did a quick comparison to work, which runs great. Both have HDD.
So it's definitely Edge and Chrome that are killing the machine, while my government runs great running 2+ times more processes (mostly Chrome, Edge, PL-SQL Developer, SPSS, etc.)
Malwarebytes is running, all green, and runs every day. I also have McAfee running, also all green.
After like two weeks, government PC was at 16% CPU, 74% Memory, and 0% disk,
running 84 Chrome processes and 41 Edge processes. Also has HDD (500 GB).
Home system grinds to a halt
running 34 Chrome processes and 11 Edge processes
But basically after 3-4 days at home and essentially light usage (at night, web surfing, etc.), it grinds to a halt.
I used Epic browser only this week, and it's been hanging in at 60% Memory, 10% CPU, 1% Disk.
With Chrome and Edge running, often CPU spikes to 100%, Memory often get to 90% and Disk often at 100%! So much so that after 3-4 days I'm re-booting.
From last post:
Chrome extensions are minimal
No Edge extensions
I ran HP Diagnostics and everything passed
So with HDD at home and work, something's different obviously at home that causes Disk Usage to spike, as well as CPU and Memory ...
The plan from before was
- study Task Mgr (done)
- install ad blockers
- change to SSD (not too keen on this, and not sure this is the issue
but just wondered if you have any other thoughts.
At this point, using Epic seems a lot better.
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