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New Video – The Secret to Making your PC Run Fast

By on March 26, 2010 in My Tools

For this Thursday’s video I decided to show everyone the main tool I use for diagnosing why a PC is running slow.  The  video seems to be a pretty big hit…enjoy!

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  • exit2600x

    Procmon is also good for hard to find/kill malware. ;-)

  • Michael.B (Queensland, Australia)

    Your PC Locked Up Due to “Procmon”. I run it on my Vista Machine as I was watching and the Whole PC freeze for a few seconds as that program loaded

  • malwarekilla

    @Michael.B – u must be watchin another video…I’ve never had a PC lockup due to procmon.

  • Christos

    Agree with Matt.

  • Thomas

    then wat was google desktop for?

  • Christos

    @Thomas google desktop is slowing down pcs and Matt proved that in the video and showed how procmon works thanks to Google Desktop

  • JimBob

    Actually Michael.B is right…. you said “right now the PC is pretty much frozen up”, right after turning on ProcMon.

    It happened on my computer as well, but only after the first time I ran it. It only lasts for about 10 seconds and then everything works fine. It doesn’t stall on subsequent runs…just a first time thing.

  • Jvans

    Procmon is a good utiltiy but Process Explorer (also from Sysinternals ) is the “taskman” replacements. As for monitoring CPU, Disk, Network and so on the inbuild Windows 7 Resource Monitor is very good. In fact, it was already in Vista.

    As for Google Desktop : this makes only sense if you disable the inbuild Windows Search wich serves exactly the same purpose.

  • Devanche

    Hey Matt don’t you ever worry that by posting these tutorials on cleaning computers and making them faster that you might be losing clients cause of it? It would kind of suck to know that half your viewers were in St. Louis or something like that and plus you might lose customers another way from that remote desktop connection thingy. Just a thought but anyway nice tutorial!

  • JimBob

    If anything, Matt’s going to gain customers. I’ve found that a little bit of knowledge in the wrong hands, usually makes things worse for the client and they end up calling me anyways. A tool in inexperienced hands is useless. Try giving a newbie HijackThis and you’ll see what I mean.

  • Reggie

    I use process explorer to diagnose slow computers. Sort by cpu usage and you can see what’s hogging all the cycles. Not sure what a process is? Right click and google it.

  • Tweak

    I’m with Reggie on PE, it also has the bullseye target for unknown items and can make working with infected pcs much easier as well. I think it is a much more useful tool than PM but I guess it comes down to what you are most comfortable with, PM certainly has its own usefulness.

  • Icaro

    Nice video…

    BTW…. Matt, are you planing in doin a Video review on the latest Avira’s Antivir 10 free v.

    Keep up the great work

    Thnkx

  • Justin

    Hey guys Kaspersky Pure just came out there new suite.


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