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Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« on: February 21, 2014, 11:01:23 PM »
For the last few days my PC has become slow sand beginning to freeze but I have run both an Avast boot time scan and both MalwareBytes Anti Malware and antirootkit scans.  Nothing really seems to help..Any advice?

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2014, 11:12:03 PM »
Maybe you need to defrag your drive or clean it up.

Search for disk defragmenter and Disk Cleanup i believe its called in english and let them run.

Maybe some programs are running in background that need to be cut down.
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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2014, 11:14:05 PM »
I do that quite often actually.  I ran an OTL log if you would like to see it.

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2014, 11:14:45 PM »
Aye attach it and I will have a look see :)

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2014, 11:20:59 PM »
Ok. 

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2014, 11:30:15 PM »
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< MD5 for: RPCSS.DLL  >
[2013/08/22 03:50:00 | 000,761,344 | ---- | M] (Microsoft Corporation) MD5=3FD5AE42EC87C6F532A931F96BE731DD -- C:\WINDOWS\SysNative\rpcss.dll
[2013/08/22 03:50:00 | 000,761,344 | ---- | M] (Microsoft Corporation) MD5=3FD5AE42EC87C6F532A931F96BE731DD -- C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-com-base-qfe-rpcss_31bf3856ad364e35_6.3.9600.16384_none_5a893c0711d704b0\rpcss.dll
 
========== Alternate Data Streams ==========
 
@Alternate Data Stream - 234 bytes -> C:\ProgramData\TEMP:E18B7D31
@Alternate Data Stream - 233 bytes -> C:\Users\Matty Ice\SkyDrive:ms-properties
@Alternate Data Stream - 217 bytes -> C:\ProgramData\TEMP:1866F3B5

< End of report >

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2014, 11:31:51 PM »
Hopefully got it all.

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2014, 11:35:33 PM »
The logs look clean .. None of the usual suspects like adware. 

Do you clear the temporary folders regularly ?

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2014, 01:13:20 AM »
Everything was cleaned and the PC seems to be in better shape. :)

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2014, 06:37:21 PM »
See how it runs and then let me know

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2014, 04:57:06 AM »
Today it seemed sluggish at work and when I returned home.


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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2014, 03:39:23 PM »
Do you have IE and other browsers set to clear the temporary files on exit ?

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2014, 05:28:34 PM »
I just looked and saw nothing about on exit ..I have it set to every day with Chrome.  Also, Starting it in Windows 8 mode seems faster then desktop but unsure why. 

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Re: Windows 8.1 PC seems sluggish and programs hanging.
« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2014, 07:57:47 PM »
What shell do you use to get to desktop mode ?

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