facing some performance issues with my laptop for the past 1 month, I have Core2Duo 2.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive with Windows 7 (64-bit)
Last week updated RAM from 4 GB to 8 GB but still the issue is unresolved at certain times need to stop all my programs or restart the machine again
Using this laptop for Application development with eclipse IDE, SQLDeveloper, SQL Server 2008/2012, Outlook, Word/Excel, Skype, Teamviewer and multiple browsers simultaneously, but machine is unable to bear this load.
which software is best to check system performance issues in order to resolve slow performance
@HP
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When we get poor performance on laptops the first thing I suspect is the hard drive and 99% of the time I am right. There are several disk testers out there but Crystal disk mark is one I use. When replacing laptop drives these days we replace them with SSD which in itself makes a huge difference.
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techelp
March 26, 2014, 10:41am
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See what is sucking up all the resources at the task manager. If you don’t find anything particularly clearly taking up all the resources, try downloading Process Explorer and you can examine each of these to go a little deeper.
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mdubya
March 26, 2014, 10:45am
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I still use Good Ol’ Resource Monitor to diagnose a lot of performance issues. Type resmon in the start box and hit enter. This will give you a detailed view of how much cpu, disk, network, and RAM you using as well as whats using it. Do this WHEN your having the problem and you should see where the computer is choking. I’m not all that familiar with SQL or Eclipse but I suspect it could be the HD. A SATA drive might go a long way if thats the case.
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Currently checking HDD with HDTune software but still is it possible to check by running all the softwares and check the performance of all the hardware components.
rockn
March 26, 2014, 10:54am
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Did it all of a sudden become slow after adding another application or after a Windows Update? You may also want to try an SSD hard drive if there is also another bay for a second hard drive for apps and files.
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there isn’t another bay for drive, Windows Update is stopped by default
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I would check drivers as well. I found recently on a hp laptop that a controller driver was needed and that fixed a lot of speed problems I was getting.
@Mwebb
Where can i find Good Ol’ Resource Monitor, is it freeware or shareware
rockn
March 26, 2014, 11:15am
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resmon = good ole resource monitor = free = already installed in Windows
If this is a development box I would be reinstalling the OS and apps on a regular basis as the hard drive can become extremely cluttered. I would be keeping a base image of the hard drive with a clean install of Windows and the apps you use the most. When the hard drive gets cluttered, reimage and you are back in business. I would also suggest an SSD, but without the ability to install programs on another drive it makes things fill up fast with the smaller capacities of SSD.
Hard Drive. I can say this with much certainty and echo the comments of many other people posting on this topic.
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apage
March 26, 2014, 11:22am
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if it is a Dell, some of their core 2 duo systems overheat and throttle the CPU to protect it. I just had to put my Latitude 6400 on a laptop cooler to be able to do anything that requires video or system intensive tasks
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pinascode
March 26, 2014, 11:37am
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Harddrive would be my guess. you may be better off buying either a new ssd or a 1 tb WD RED drive, which is made fro 24/7 usage.
bjoyce
March 26, 2014, 11:38am
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As already said, HDD and CPU temp are ones I would check, High fan speed indicates this, google for speedfan for a free utility.
veet
March 26, 2014, 11:38am
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Apart from the above, you could also check
CPU temperature
Is the cooling fan working properly ?
Try a disk defrag…MAY just help
Run a scandisk and/or check-disk
Scan For Malware
Any hardware conflicts ?
If all else fails, backup your data and perform a FFR
I would check Task Manager, Error Logs, and Drivers that should give a hint on what the issue may be.
Try a different HDD, or switch to a SSD. Performance issues like what you’ve described point to hardware failure. I’ve had the same scenario several times. Once I decided to replace the drive, the problems went away. Further testing of the drive showed me that it was failing indeed.
I am surprised to not see to many people mention to test the memory. I would download and run a copy of memtest just to make sure its not a simple problem with the old stick of ram kicking the bucket.
