- after visiting different web sites, Firefox often gets stuck with extremely high cpu and memory usage Exactly my experience - I often have to shut Firefox down and restart = also it seeems to be loading all kinds of affliate and advertising tracking things in the background. Firefox is proving a big mistake and will be canned.
I thought I was the only one with those beliefs & observations. But it's not "these days". Ever since the first Windows OS every software developer has made their shit load at startup, hog ram & resources, hog cpu and bandwidth seeking updates and who knows what other data their stalking from you, etc. I never allow anything to update. And I've never had a virus but I've had two systems ruined by anti-virus programs. Fuck them all. Don't open e-mail from anyone you don't know, don't use commercial e-mail services like Yahoo, AOL, etc. and don't go to porn sites and you have no need for anti-virus. As to anything Adobe, it's all trash. They say they make all this trash load at startup so that when you go to use it "it loads faster". Well excuse me but someone show me how little suzy knows the difference between 31ms and 310ms. I don't need some POS software company causing material harm to my system to save 280ms "if" I want to use their software. Shut off all updates including and especially Windows Updates. Never let anything update. If you change something under the hood of your car every day, it will definitely stop working. Don't let these idiot software companies kill your pc. If it works, don't fix it.
This was the first thing I did after posting here and getting all of your replies...instant and pretty drastic improvement. Thank you for the advice
I do indeed do a lot of printing. My main concern now is the fan running at full speed (see response to other reply in this thread regarding fan).
I am weary of the fact that there may be a legitimate reason for the fan running at 100% and of the potential risks involved in artificially lowering the speed. But I feel as if that risk is low, knowing that the CPU temp isn't too hot. Since posting, I have opened up the PC and cleaned off all the dust off the fan and heat sink...still running high. I think you've misunderstood the problem though- it's not that the fan has always ran that fast- a problem has recently developed forcing it to run at high speed. "...who the fuck knows what else you've been installing or messing with." I know . The answer is nothing else.
How can I stop software loading at startup and shut off all updates?? I know that this is probably a large part of the problem and the reason why it takes too long to reboot. Thanks for the advice.
Did you notice the fan speed increased after the machine came back from the tech ? Possible the tech changed the fan speed in the bios setting accidentally or for some reason, or bios possible needs an update ? Check the fan settings in bios and see if the fan threshold has been increased. Also is there an available upgrade for the bios ? if so a simple upgrade may help . ( although the fan itself may be going bad as suggested ) The bios upgrade would still be fine to do. access bios instructions http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/accessbios.htm !! Do not fool around with the bios settings !! Just take a look at the settings and see if fan threshold is set very high.
start run msconfig selectivestartup remove check boxes from all the stuff you don't want running updaters are per program. for the os get it through the control panel.
That worked for me, but it was from behind a white listing firewall. I had two identical computers, one for business which was whitelisted, and one for surfing the internet. I never updated the whitelisted one and the other one was updated automatically but still needed a software rebuild every so often.
OP, do you have any toolbars or search engines installed (like when you install Java and it auto-installs the Ask Toolbar)? As others have mentioned, you should live with the loud fan vs. controlling it with a 3rd party application. It's loud because it needs to be loud. Have you tried going to your Device Manager and checking to see if you have any drivers that are not installed properly?