I've noticed that my computer starts lagging terribly between 5:00 and 5:10 PM. Anybody know why? Does Windows update stuff at a particular hour or something? Not terribly important, but if anyone has any hints that'd be great 
souvik1997 wrote:
Maybe you set your anitivirus to scan at that time.
My best guess. If not that, then at least another daily job; like a System backup? 
There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate data from incomplete data
I'm inclined to believe the antivirus scan hypothesis. Something that I've found provides a huge (unfortunate) performance boost is disabling Windows' background search indexing.
[s] Around 5 PM it's usually when I'm hacking into your computer, stealing your music, else [/s] you can do CTRL+ALT+DEL then check if a process in particular seems to be taking unusual amounts of CPU ressources.
DJ_O wrote:
[s] Around 5 PM it's usually when I'm hacking into your computer, stealing your music, else [/s] you can do CTRL+ALT+DEL then check if a process in particular seems to be taking unusual amounts of CPU ressources.
Or, you could do Ctrl-Shift-Esc to show the Task Manager without going through the Ctrl-Alt-Delete dialog.
souvik1997 wrote:
DJ_O wrote:
[s] Around 5 PM it's usually when I'm hacking into your computer, stealing your music, else [/s] you can do CTRL+ALT+DEL then check if a process in particular seems to be taking unusual amounts of CPU ressources.
Or, you could do Ctrl-Shift-Esc to show the Task Manager without going through the Ctrl-Alt-Delete dialog.
He didn't say which Windows version he's using. IIRC that's a 7 only feature.
No. I frequently use it on XP at any rate, and I believe I've done it on Win2k as well. It goes at least that far back.
Ctrl+Shift+Esc has been the Task Manager shortcut since NT 4, as far as I can remember.
XP was a weird one in that Ctrl+Alt+Del brought up Task Manager if you were using the Welcome screen instead of the Security screen. I guess this was to "help" people coming to NT from 9x, though as they (thankfully) reverted to the classic NT behaviour in Vista I guess it wasn't a very successful effort.
XP was a weird one in that Ctrl+Alt+Del brought up Task Manager if you were using the Welcome screen instead of the Security screen. I guess this was to "help" people coming to NT from 9x, though as they (thankfully) reverted to the classic NT behaviour in Vista I guess it wasn't a very successful effort.
I think that at 5PM your computer is:
Well, have you found out the cause already?
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