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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
For a number of months I have had an HP Lappy -
Architecture: AuthenticAMD AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics [Family 21 Model 16 Stepping 1] OS Details: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Core x64 Edition, (06.03.9600.00) Number of CPU's: 4 Created: Fri, 25 Jan 13 09:14:19 -0500 Timezone: GMT +1 Floating Point Speed: 937.01 million ops/sec Integer Speed: 3,862.16 million ops/sec Memory Bandwidth: 250Mbit/sec Ram: 7.47Gb Cache: 2.00Mb Swap: 7.47Gb Disk Total: 678.67Gb which always seemed to have an Elapsed Time at least half longer than CPU Time. So I decided to do some digging using Task Manager and Control Panel. Found lots of HP 'tasks' that I could see no use for, such as Support Assistant and other monitoring activities which booted off at start-up.....there was also a video program for the built in video camera which I do not use....this seemed to be kicking in every few seconds, the cool sense was also removed. Having removed all these and run for a few days there has been a massive improvement, Elapsed and CPU times are only a few minutes apart now! Note that before removing these programs they were first disabled using Task Manager and the system left running for a few hours to see the effect, if any! |
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noderaser
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Jun 6, 2006 Post Count: 297 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Getting rid of bloatware installed by the manufacturer should be one of the first things you do when getting a new computer... Or, you could simply reformat with a fresh copy of the OS and install only the software you need. I don't think it is as bad as it used to be, but the manufacturers are still putting a bunch of junk on there "for" you. None of it is needed, even some of the "driver" install packages contain unnecessary utilities that have nothing to do with hardware functionality.
----------------------------------------Of course, I usually build my own PCs so it's a non-issue for me. As for laptops, thankfully Apple has been pretty low in the bloatware department. Some manufacturers are better than others. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Of course WCG is an ideal way of detecting if there is anything running, if Elapsed and CPU are vastly different then search for the culprit
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