(02-03-2012, 03:47 AM)simonheros Wrote: Task Manager>Processes>Close everything you don't use.
There's about 50 processes that are essential to Windows that have names that aren't very easy to tell apart from the things that are not.
Your other suggestions aren't too bad; I haven't defragged in a while, but fragmented hard drives have NEVER given me this kind of trouble when I've had them in the 10 years I've dealt with computers.
(02-03-2012, 06:26 AM)noob007 Wrote: You know, sometimes the Task Manager itself consumes like >50% of the CPU when it's open.
It lists itself in the process list, so I'd be able to see that; but I've never seen that happen. It might just be a Vista/7 thing. And the computer is lagging even when I haven't opened that yet -- and gets a bit hot too.