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Well, since last week, my pc started to get slower and slower, don't know why. Any help?
I've already:

• Defragmentaded my discs, all 3
  
• Runned virus and spyware/malware scans (nothing suspicious was found by AVG8, Windows Defender, Spybot S and D or Spyware Terminator)
  
• Runned CCleaner (and discovered I had about 3GB of "temporary" files... Why in the world do setups go to the temporary files folder, and don't get deleted after the installation is completed?)
  
• Using RAMBooster. And although it says I have over 1GB of free RAM, TaskManager says I have exactly 0 Mbs free... all the rest being used by programs (over 700mb) or Cache (Over 1.3GB! Should the RAM cache be that big?
  
• Restarded a few times... same thing always
  
• Got crazy. I can't put up with it! =O

Please, has anybody got any suggestions?
[Forget about the "Format your HD, won't do it...]

Download Process Explorer and post a list of your running processes.

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Originally posted by blessedguy
# Using RAMBooster. And although it says I have over 1GB of free RAM, TaskManager says I have exactly 0 Mbs free... all the rest being used by programs (over 700mb) or Cache (Over 1.3GB! Should the RAM cache be that big?

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Vista?
Vista (by default) uses SuperFetch which loads your most-used programs into free memory so that they launch faster.
However, if a program needs more RAM, Vista will give it to it.

Ok, looking for that "Process Explorer" thingy.
I know SuperFetch does it... but is there anyway do disable it?

Edit
Posting it here:
Process    PID    CPU    Description    Company Name
System Idle Process    0    97.69       
Interrupts    n/a        Hardware Interrupts   
DPCs    n/a        Deferred Procedure Calls   
System    4           
  smss.exe    388           
csrss.exe    456           
wininit.exe    508           
services.exe    564           
  svchost.exe    804           
  nvvsvc.exe    848           
   rundll32.exe    1588           
  svchost.exe    880           
  svchost.exe    912           
  svchost.exe    1016           
   audiodg.exe    1200           
  svchost.exe    1060           
   dwm.exe    1188    0.77    Gerenciador de Janelas da Área de Trabalho    Microsoft Corporation
  svchost.exe    1076           
   taskeng.exe    2056           
   taskeng.exe    3068        Mecanismo do Agendador de Tarefas    Microsoft Corporation
  svchost.exe    1288           
  svchost.exe    1348           
  svchost.exe    1488           
  spoolsv.exe    1752           
  svchost.exe    1776           
  AppleMobileDeviceService.exe    2244           
  avgwdsvc.exe    2264           
   avgrsx.exe    3884           
  mDNSResponder.exe    2280           
  svchost.exe    2296           
  svchost.exe    2392           
  sp_rsser.exe    2572           
  svchost.exe    2796           
  SearchIndexer.exe    2828           
  avgemc.exe    1072           
  iPodService.exe    1940           
  SLsvc.exe    4136           
lsass.exe    576           
lsm.exe    584           
csrss.exe    520           
winlogon.exe    696           
explorer.exe    1464    0.77    Windows Explorer    Microsoft Corporation
MSASCui.exe    1396        Windows Defender User Interface    Microsoft Corporation
SpywareTerminatorShield.Exe    1964        Spyware Terminator Realtime Shield    Crawler.com
avgtray.exe    1632        AVG Tray Monitor    AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o.
iTunesHelper.exe    1660        iTunesHelper Module    Apple Inc.
RocketDock.exe    2020           
ObjectDock.exe    1140        ObjectDock    Stardock
  firefox.exe    4076        Firefox    Mozilla Corporation
Rambooster.exe    5388        RamBooster    J.Pajula
procexp.exe    5436    0.77    Sysinternals Process Explorer    Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

(bit confusing at text mode... want screenshots?)

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Originally posted by blessedguy
I know SuperFetch does it... but is there anyway do disable it?

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why would you want that?
The regions in memory SuperFetch writes to are overwritten when needed, so it shouldn't be noticably slowing your computer down.

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Originally posted by Jesus
why would you want that?
The regions in memory SuperFetch writes to are overwritten when needed, so it shouldn't be noticably slowing your computer down.

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To see if it makes any difference...

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Originally posted by blessedguy
To see if it makes any difference...

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that makes sense
clicky

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Originally posted by Jesus

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Originally posted by blessedguy
To see if it makes any difference...

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that makes sense
clicky

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Thanks! Will test...
[Offtopic] Loved this site... www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=
Although that also says "Hey, lazy one. Is it too dificult to type google and press ctrl+enter?"

Edit

It's faster now... although still "lagging", but rarely now. Programs are lauching in the same speed... what does Superfetch recognize as "Frequently used"? The ones I open more oftenly (Rganaroks (bRO and iRO); iTunes; Windows Live Mail and Messenger) are opening as normal as before!
Also noticed startups are faster...

(and... My HD finally stopped to be that loudy thingy! =O Really... does superfetch work? Now finally "free memory" stays free for a long time, and cache stoped going crazy...)

Why the hell you use so many anti-viruses/spywares/etc?
That's 99% the reason.

I recommend you to download Kaspersky and look for those promotions of 3, 6 months, a year, if you don't want to download a pirate key buy it.
Just to be sure about that 1%, try disabling all those softwares and see what happens. Finish the processes if needed.

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Originally posted by Chancer
Why the hell you use so many anti-viruses/spywares/etc?
That's 99% the reason.

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One word: fear

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Originally posted by Chancer
I recommend you to download Kaspersky and look for those promotions of 3, 6 months, a year, if you don't want to download a pirate key buy it.
Just to be sure about that 1%, try disabling all those softwares and see what happens. Finish the processes if needed.

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Will try it. Thanks
Had no problems turning them off... Except for the "Are you sure you want to keep your PC unprotected?" dialogues.
[Geez... 6Kb/sec download speed? I downloaded a song with 124kb/s speed about 5mins ago! =O Anyone there knows if Kaspersky is downloaded so slowly? =/]

Depends on where you're downloading. But, turning everything off solved your problem?