So Slow

[whistonian]

For the past few days my laptop has been so slow,it's ok when i am printing but changing pages is a nightmare,around 10sec each click. i am on 3G MiFi and usually have no problem.Is there a solution to this?

[Buenchico]

Check your download speed here:
http://www.speedtest.net/

Then access the Task Manager and go to the Processes tab to look for any high figures in the CPU column (showing that something is hogging your laptop's processing power) or in the Mem Usage column (showing that something is hogging memory).

Let us know about anything unusual you find.

[whistonian]

Good morning Buenchico, thanks for your reply.I have checked the Task Manager,the highest CPU level noticed is 14 on chrome.exe*32, incidently chrome.exe*32 is listed 5 times and each one keeps showing some CPU movement.Other than that I can see no problems.

[whistonian]

Have just noticed system idle reading up to 75,sorry I don't understand any of it.

[Buenchico]

System Idle Process should be high. (It's basically showing the spare CPU capacity available), However Chrome shouldn't be there 5 times. Try using another browser (even the ultra-dire Internet Explorer will be good enough for test purposes, although Firefox would be a far better choice). If things get back to normal speed then it's Chrome that's at fault. Try resetting it
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214?hl=en-GB
or even consider uninstalling it and then reinstalling (although my own choice would still be to switch to Firefox anyway).

[jesmond]

have been unable to access youtube for quite a few days keeps saying error occurred but cant seem to sort out whats wrong, any help would be great

[jesmond]

sorry for putting my question here so have rewrote it