System running super slow with Windows 10

Okay, I uninstalled McAfee and everything is better, for now. I'll wait a few days and see if anything changes, and rely on Windows Defender for now. It's a shame I recently renewed my McAfee subscription for 3 years. But if that's the culprit then it must go.

Hi,

Have you checked with other McAfee users if this is a known problem ?

Cheers,

McAssey said:

Okay, I uninstalled McAfee and everything is better, for now. I'll wait a few days and see if anything changes, and rely on Windows Defender for now. It's a shame I recently renewed my McAfee subscription for 3 years. But if that's the culprit then it must go.

Along with any anti-virus I'd suggest running Malwarebytes about once a week; and I like running SUPERAntiSpyware as well, just to be on the safe side.

I brought up this problem on the McAfee community boards, but it didn't seem to be a common problem. They are the ones who suggested uninstalling and reinstalling McAfee.

fdegrove said:

Hi,

Have you checked with other McAfee users if this is a known problem ?

Cheers,

Thanks!

fracking4oil said:

Along with any anti-virus I'd suggest running Malwarebytes about once a week; and I like running SUPERAntiSpyware as well, just to be on the safe side.

In my last post one week ago, I announced that I uninstalled McAfee AV and now I am only using Windows Defender for my AV. My system was running perfectly once again, and remained that way for a few days. But then once again I noticed that the System file was requiring more and more memory, driving my total memory use up to more than 90% of my 4.0 GB of memory available, resulting in constant swapping of data to the disk and slowing my system down once again to a crawl. Here is a screen shot right after booting up.

As you can see, the System file is killing my system. I no longer have the option of deleting a 3rd party AV. I have run anti-malware/spyware apps and removed all tracking cookies. I don't know what else to do. The Windows 10 System file is like a cancer. It just grows out of control and eats up all my resources. What can I do? Should I reinstall Windows 10 without losing my user-installed apps and my files, using the in-place upgrade? Can I go back to Windows 7, which was working perfectly well before I upgraded? Does anyone else have this issue?

Hi McAssey,

Did you ever find an answer, even on another site? I'm having the exact same issue except I am running a custom build PC with 16 GB DDR3 RAM. I've gone through the same procedures of uninstalling programs that may (or may not) be interfering with the performance with the same results. It's frustrating to say the least.

McAssey said:

In my last post one week ago, I announced that I uninstalled McAfee AV and now I am only using Windows Defender for my AV. My system was running perfectly once again, and remained that way for a few days. But then once again I noticed that the System file was requiring more and more memory, driving my total memory use up to more than 90% of my 4.0 GB of memory available, resulting in constant swapping of data to the disk and slowing my system down once again to a crawl. Here is a screen shot right after booting up.

As you can see, the System file is killing my system. I no longer have the option of deleting a 3rd party AV. I have run anti-malware/spyware apps and removed all tracking cookies. I don't know what else to do. The Windows 10 System file is like a cancer. It just grows out of control and eats up all my resources. What can I do? Should I reinstall Windows 10 without losing my user-installed apps and my files, using the in-place upgrade? Can I go back to Windows 7, which was working perfectly well before I upgraded? Does anyone else have this issue?

I did find what appears to be the solution. It seems I had a driver that had a "memory leak" (whatever that is). It was the driver for the touchpad on my laptop. I disabled that driver, since I don't use the touchpad anyway. Since then I haven't had any more problems.

Thanks for the update! I'll start checking my drivers because it sounds like an ideal reason for the slowdown.

Hi,

Did you ever find an answer, even on another site? I'm having the exact same issue except I am running a custom build PC with 16 GB DDR3 RAM.

Can you check if you have "System" running in Taskman as well?

It's not running on any of my machines running the same OS as you do which is why I ask.

Cheers,