Hello to all,
So I purchased a second-hand ASUS notebook recently, hoping to use it for basic university work. I have made sure that the drive was wiped clean, leaving only the programs that I wanted to keep (it came with a version of Microsoft Office 2013 Pro).
However, a couple of weeks after I began to use it, the memory and disk categories in the Task Manager began to show readings of 90-100% capacity, and the entire system started to lag. I have gone through various windows and possible solutions, trying to locate the program(s) which were causing the problem. As far as I can tell, the main culprits are the antimalware and the Service Hosts. It has got to the point where it pretty much sits constantly at around 50% while idle, and the disk jumps up to unprecedented heights every now and then, once again displaying the Service Host (usually it's the Local System (Network Restricted), but sometimes it's just the Local System).
I have run scans with a few different programs and there doesn't appear to be any malware (I even went through a few places manually to se if I could find anything dodgy).
I have tried rebooting and seeing whether that makes a difference, but after a few seconds it begins hitting the 48-50% usage of memory again. I would like to know how to find out which system program is causing the random jumps in my usage, and how to slow them down/stop them from killing me in the middle of study. As for the malware, I probably need to find an alternative, as it's just being annoying more than anything.
Thanks for any responses!
So I purchased a second-hand ASUS notebook recently, hoping to use it for basic university work. I have made sure that the drive was wiped clean, leaving only the programs that I wanted to keep (it came with a version of Microsoft Office 2013 Pro).
However, a couple of weeks after I began to use it, the memory and disk categories in the Task Manager began to show readings of 90-100% capacity, and the entire system started to lag. I have gone through various windows and possible solutions, trying to locate the program(s) which were causing the problem. As far as I can tell, the main culprits are the antimalware and the Service Hosts. It has got to the point where it pretty much sits constantly at around 50% while idle, and the disk jumps up to unprecedented heights every now and then, once again displaying the Service Host (usually it's the Local System (Network Restricted), but sometimes it's just the Local System).
I have run scans with a few different programs and there doesn't appear to be any malware (I even went through a few places manually to se if I could find anything dodgy).
I have tried rebooting and seeing whether that makes a difference, but after a few seconds it begins hitting the 48-50% usage of memory again. I would like to know how to find out which system program is causing the random jumps in my usage, and how to slow them down/stop them from killing me in the middle of study. As for the malware, I probably need to find an alternative, as it's just being annoying more than anything.
Thanks for any responses!