Sometimes your PC tin can just run very slowly.  When this happens it could be something using all your processor fourth dimension, using as well much of the PC'south retentiveness, or reading and writing large volumes of data to the hd.  If information technology happens regularly though you need to know what's going on and what's causing it. You lot tin can get this information in theTask Manager.  Open this past either right-clicking (touching and holding) the Taskbar and selectingTask Director from the menu that popular-upwardly, or by pressCtrl + Alt + Del on your keyboard when an selection for the Chore Director will also appear. You need the full Job managing director view, so if y'all see aMore details button in the bottom left corner of the Task Director, click it.  This will take yous into the full view and it'southward theProcesses tab that y'all need.  Hither you tin encounter every app and service running on the PC, along with details of the CPU (processor), memory, disk, and network usage for each. This view is also estrus-mapped.  This means that anything using a large amount of resources volition exist highlighted in darker and darker colours to bear witness you what's hogging resources.  Something that's using a lot of resources will announced amber, while something that's completely monopolising your PC will brandish in ruddy. Using this information you can quickly find out what is slowing your PC, and then that you can either shut it, or forestall information technology from starting when you sign in.  You lot can detect out how to manage your startup apps here.

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