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  1. C

    [SOLVED] CPU runs at 100% sometimes for no reason

    Hi, I've had my 8700k for over a year now. This issue has only risen recently. Now and again, the operation of windows will slow to a crawl, with lots of input lag and delay. I will check my task manager, and my CPU will be at 100%. There will either be a "system interrupts" task using 100% of...
  2. clancefergie_

    Question suspicious things in Task Manager

    Recently I looked into my Task Manager to find two applications called "YourPhone.exe" and some program named "腾讯手游助手" I know its a virus or something so I don't want to touch the two programs at all. What exactly are these things and how do I remove them? I don't want to fiddle with it at all...
  3. G

    [SOLVED] Tasks Abruptly Go Into Background

    Ok, so I am using my PC for gaming, keeping task manager open and all to keep an eye on how it's performing, but then abruptly, it registers everything open except itself as background tasks, even spreading out certain grouped programs, and also slowing down said programs quite a lot. After some...
  4. mutatiohn

    [SOLVED] Slow Network Speed when Gaming but not Anything Else

    I'm having an issue with my network speed where I have extremely low speeds when I play any game but my speeds are normal when streaming videos and browsing. In my task manager my network speed doesn't go higher than .5 Mbps when playing games but when I open 5 tabs on a browser all playing...
  5. A

    Question Ram usage spikes to 99% then locks up pc, when practically doing nothing.

    Alright fellas i need help with an issue that has stumped me. I bought new ram like 2 weeks ago, 16gb corsair vengeance 2400mhz. Works perfect, i game with absolutely no issues. Past couple days i've been having some lockup issues. I'll be browsing chrome, watching something on VLC and then...
  6. OrdJk

    [SOLVED] Why is it that when I open my task manager I see my cpu usage drop a lot ?

    Any advice would be helpful. Precisely a way to stop the issue would be ideal. Thanks
  7. L

    [SOLVED] Task manager shows CPU usage at 100%

    Hi, I'm dealing with a frustrating problem with my Task Manager. Sometimes it shows that my CPU is running at 100% even though it is not true, as MSI Afterburner clearly shows usage in range between 20-50%. Sometimes when that happens, my PC starts to lag like crazy and becomes unusable. I...
  8. D

    Question Task Manager says System is taking up all of my Disk, saving files causes it to freeze / or take forever

    Hi! My computer has been slow for a few months now. For me, when I'm on a browser or a game I don't have any issues. It's opening things that seems to make it just stall forever. For example, if I go to save an image from the web onto my computer, right click -> save image as? It will open...
  9. A

    [SOLVED] Troubleshooting Ram Bought 2 of the same stick to go to 4 and Freq/not being recognized?

    View: https://imgur.com/a/RABG28k and the freq seemed to drop to 1866 when I had it set to 2933mhz. View: https://imgur.com/a/oBM6P7H - cpu z View: https://imgur.com/a/riM2aqW - dxdiag View: https://imgur.com/a/dO5KQvG - bios I also checked all the part numbers on cpu-z View...
  10. Sebastien pham

    [SOLVED] Can't open any applications on my desktop

    Hey having trouble with my pc. After installing synapse software. I am unable to open any icons or am able to go to the start menu. Here are a few things that I did. 1. Task manager > windows explorer > restart 2. Powershell > sfc /scanner > dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth 3...
  11. thenesremake

    Question Why does Task Manager seem to think I have much less RAM than I should?

    Upon checking Task Manager to troubleshoot issues with hardware, I checked the value of RAM being used by a process and checked the percent as well. Google Chrome appeared to be using 505 MB of RAM, and when I switched the value type from Values to Percents, Task Manager read Google Chrome as...
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    [SOLVED] VERY HIGH POWER USAGE - RARE PROBLEM - Application using more power supply than it normally should?

    As I have been looking to find my problem I have seen a few cases of people having a game uses a lot of power and the game lags because of it including some that are very good pcs. ex. ( https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/very-high-power-usage-windows-10-help-fix.3543186/ ) I have a 500W...
  13. Karim2001

    Question Cpu stuck at 100%

    I just upgraded my computer to windows 10 and my CPU usage in task manager is stuck at 100% i cant just end any specific process to lower the usage since the process using most of the CPU are random and most of the time its task manager itself i tried many times to fix it but couldn't so does...
  14. KosmicFatez

    Question Cpu at 100% then goes down everytime I open task manager

    So my cpu is always at 100% everytime I open task manager and goes back down to noraml %. Heres a video showing what I mean View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJdxHpYOMFE Please help, I dont know if this is bad or not.
  15. Quietlee

    Question Please help me solve this problem :(

    Hi everyone, I'm at a loss of how to fix this problem, I can usually solve any pc issues I come across but this one I can't get rid of for the life of me. It started randomly a few months ago and as far as I know I didn't install anything new or have any major software changes. The problem I am...
  16. AEX19629

    Question VERY HIGH POWER USAGE - Windows 10 - HELP FIX

    There's seems to be some problem with the power usage status on task manager. This has happened recently and has not happened before. All the components are around a month old, and I believe it may have happened after I did a windows update. I don't think it can be the PSU's problem since it is...
  17. Nast666

    Question What is this startup item?

    The startup item " Scanner and DCssupport " with the description " Provides image acquisition services for scanners and cameras " doesn't show in the Windows 10 task manager Startup tab, but will show up in my Advanced SystemCare RC Pro system summary under startup items. I want to uninstall...
  18. C

    Question High CPU usage on task manager startup

    I've recently noticed that when I open task manager the initial CPU usage is upwards of 80% and even 100% at times then it quickly shoots down to the normal level of around >10% when idle. This got me a little suspicious as I've never noticed it doing this before and found out this is typical...
  19. B

    [SOLVED] Multiple program that running in task manager but it's only 1 program opened

    As by the title i had a problem with this and i don't know how to fix it, i have tried uninstalled the program that opens alot of task and it's still not working (long story short, my pc accidently get infected with a virus and i did a clean scan using malwarebytes) and here is the pic. (Program...
  20. K

    Question Task manager going crazy

    Hey, I noticed a weird problem with my task manager. When I move files from my hard drive to a portable disk, my CPU jumps to 100%. That wouldn't be so weird, but the processes that are mostly using the CPU are. A while after I start moving the files, processes such as Firefox, Photos, etc...
  21. Deathsteams

    Question Windows 10 task manager improper frequency readings

    BEFORE I START: I have posted on multiple tech sites already, got no useful answers, let alone getting "HAHAUSELINUX"-ed. Basically, I've recently bought an Intel Core i7 2700k (Sandy Bridge-DT) system (Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV rev 2.2 motherboard, and a Gigabyte GTX 980 Windforce graphics card)...
  22. ToxicThing

    Question Explorer.exe not starting on start-up

    Okay, I've been having this problem for a while now. I don't know when it started exactly, but it's very frustrating. The thing is, when I log-in into my account, I get black screen and cmd open. I type "exit" into cmd, then ctrl+alt+del and get into task manager. From there, I manually open...
  23. C

    [SOLVED] What does 'Used Slots' (RAM) mean in Task Manager?

    Hi guys, hope you will answer this quick question of mine. I'm on an ASUS Vivobook (model number X510UF) and I've been wanting to upgrade the RAM (it's 4GB currently). I saw this in task manager.; CLICK HERE TO VIEW SCREENSHOT So what does 'Slots used' mean? Does it mean that my motherboard...
  24. L

    Question Disabling startup apps on windows 10

    I have latest version of windows 10. Haven't had any contact with win10 before can't figure out how to disable apps from launching on startup. I have already tried: 1)from task manager startup tab(but it doesn't show any apps i want to disable) 2)msconfig(system configurations) same as task...
  25. Y

    [SOLVED] Cannot kill process for my browsers even after uninstalling

    So, I've been having this odd problem where I cannot browse in any browser at all. Every time I try to connect to a website, it keeps loading but never actually loads. It happened to me on Chrome first, then on Edge, and then on Internet Explorer. I am currently using a browser called BlueSky...
  26. T

    Question why is my ram info not showing in task manager

    View: https://imgur.com/a/QOBtbxK My RAM info do not show properly in task manager, after a reinstall of windows with AMD StoreMI. Any idea on how to fix this? the info should be something like 32G 3600MHz 2/4 slots
  27. J

    Question My Gaming PC keeps Freezing when I do something.

    So I been having a slight issue where I occasionally would have my pc freeze from time to time, like on startup my mouse courser would lag a freeze because something was running in the background, and every little thing in task manager would have “High Power Usage”. For almost anything actively...
  28. Goofygiggles

    Question Task Manager incorrectly reports CPU usage

    Hello! I've got a Windows 10 machine with an i7 4770. I use MSI afterburner and HWMonitor to check my CPU utilizations, and I've noticed that task manager always reports the CPU usage as being about 20% higher than it actually is. Back when this computer had Windows 7 on it, task manager...
  29. urbina.christian123

    Question Ping Spikes and HDD Trouble

    Playing games and I'll get pretty big ping spikes and when I look in the task manager, there are random apps that i don't know are running in the disk drive and sometimes in Ethernet. Don't know what a lot of them are and they slow down my PC pretty big when I start it up. Don't know what to do.
  30. thomasjbrown2014

    Question Origin Client And VLC Media Player Not Launching

    Hi all, I have been experiencing a problem with Origin by EA and VLC Media Player, when I click on the shortcut or even in the file location it doesn't load and it isn't even showing up on task manager. I checked to see if anything in the auto start up was causing an issue and that hasn't...
  31. R

    Question task manager clock speed issues

    so, i was using task manager to see my clock speed on my Xeon because the turbo speed was technically 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.2 on the four cores. after tinkering with UEFi, i got all four cores to run at 3.41ghz. but when i opened task manager this happened: here is a picture. Can anyone explain this...
  32. E

    Question CPU usage at 100%, drops when task manager opened

    Hi everyone! My CPU usage is at 100% and when I open the task manager it near instantly drops to around 10-15%. I''ve had this for a while now, actually. It was just today when I decided to check it out online and found out multiple posts saying it's some kind of virus. one of the posts said...
  33. Y

    Question Can't Install Programs or See Task Manager

    Hello everyone, I am running a Windows 7 professional and am having the following issue. For some reason, there are programs that I cannot install (Skype, Spotify, Microsoft Teams). For example, Teams just is about to start and gets blank and a "not responding". In addition, I cannot see the...
  34. M

    Question Passwords and settings got erased when forcing shutdown

    Hi. I think my SSD is almost at the end of its life, because I'm having similar issues from my old SSD that was at the end of its life. I tried booting things, Steam, when I load a game it freezes steam and Task Manager can't close it. I then proceed to restart the computer, but only got a...
  35. L

    Question Windows Logon GUI Application high cpu usage

    I noticed that my pc was getting slow and when I checked task manager i see this process "Windows Logon GUI Application" eating my cpu usage and disappearing after few seconds when i check task manager. Any help would be greatly appreciated. task manager picture: View...
  36. U

    Question memory leak not showing up in task manager or resource monitor

    Hi! I have a big problem. My pc is experiencing some real big memory leaks. It does not really matter if im using a lot of ram allready or not. For some reason randomly my ram usage goes up to 100% and freezes the entire pc forcing me to restart it. I have tried to identify the culprit but...