Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2023-07-13 18:38, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: Ok, Thanks!! I have an HP laptop running Win 10 Pro that I use to make videos. It has 8GB of ram and an m.2. It is about 6 years old. It is > using 41% of RAM... Yikes!! I really have to wonder how the browsers work like that wi

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
> Ok, Thanks!! I have an HP laptop running Win 10 Pro that I use to make > videos. It has 8GB of ram and an m.2. It is about 6 years old. It is > using 41% of RAM... Yikes!! I really have to wonder how the browsers work like that with so little ram, they will tend to use as much or as little a

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2023-07-13 10:03, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: Well that's about what I was expecting you'd see... First, start with getting her more memory, I'm amazed it'll even run and start a browser with only 4gb of ram. Firefox/Chrome alone uses a good 8-20gb of ram at a time for my normal u

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
Well that's about what I was expecting you'd see... First, start with getting her more memory, I'm amazed it'll even run and start a browser with only 4gb of ram. Firefox/Chrome alone uses a good 8-20gb of ram at a time for my normal usage, anything else will just sit in swap/pagefile (which is w

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Thank you to all who replied. I spent over an hour on trying to figure this out. I opened the Event Viewer and discovered the system was using 94% of memory and 100% of the disk in idle mode. This computer is running Windows 10 pro with 4GB of ram and and 4 cores and 4 threads. Is has a rus