[uzy5o]

Recently, my computer has started going through brief periods of being slow and unreponsive quite frequently. It usually occurs just after I start it up or after resuming from sleep. You know the slight buzzing sound the computer makes when it's busy? My computer also makes that sound when that happens, but at a much slower frequency than usual. When this happens, there's pretty much nothing I can do. The cursor will change into the busy cursor as soon as I try to click on anything, and I pretty much have no choice but to wait for my computer to "snap out of it" on its own. This usually takes around a minute.
My computer is a laptop that's almost five years old, so that might have something to do with it.

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Start Task Manager. Click on the CPU column header once or twice until it's sorted in descending order. Leave it visible on the Desktop. When it next goes non-responsive, look at Task Manager and see if it shows what if hogging the CPU.

[Ztruker]

Start Task Manager. Click on the CPU column header once or twice until it's sorted in descending order. Leave it visible on the Desktop. When it next goes non-responsive, look at Task Manager and see if it shows what if hogging the CPU.

[uzy5o]

It just happened again. Task manager didn't freeze and managed to keep updating, but it didn't show anything useful. The entire time, "System Idle Process" was at the top with about 98% CPU.

[Ztruker]

I don't think a buzzing computer is a good thing

Let's see what PCPitStop can tells us:

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[uzy5o]

Here is the link:

http://www.pcpitstop...?conid=25297426

[Ztruker]

The first thing I noticed was that you have 16GB of deleted stuff in the Recycle bin. Do the following:

How to Open and Use Disk Cleanup in Windows 7 and Windows 8

Make sure you check Recycle Bin so that gets emptied.

Also, you have and old version of Java 6 Rel 20 that should be deleted. I see you already have the latest Java 7 Rel 17 installed.

Bittorrent can be hazardous if you are not very careful and will use computer resources if left running as a server. If you are not using it, uninstall it.

Look through your list of installed software and uninstall anything you are not using.

Download and install CCleaner from the following link: CCleaner - Standard

During installation, uncheck the option to install the Yahoo toolbar.

Start CCleaner. Click on Tools (ICON) and Select the following BUTTONS to create two (2) text files:

• Uninstall > Save to text file (install) – bottom right corner of app window
• Startup > Save to text file (startup)

Locate and open each saved file in the ‘Documents’ FOLDER:

• Copy and paste the contents of each file into your next post (2 files).