My PC's gone into treacle mode (again). Hotmail takes ages to respond to any key presses. In task manager - users - myhotmailaddress, it's showing 15% CPU, 93% memory, 97% disc.
It's just sitting there open in a tab, not currently being used. Any suggestions what I can do about it?
I've cleared cookies and cache.
Windows 10, Firefox.
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Everyone is going to disagree, but
Format the disk, reload Windows.
Its the only guaranteed fix, and needs to be done every two - three years anyway.
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>>Windows 10, Firefox.
Same 'ere = mucho slow.
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Is it just Hotmail that's slow?
Can you tell what is using the memory?
Is your disk fairly full?
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It's hotmail that's very slow and seems to be slowing everything else. Task manager says it's hotmail using the memory. Disc is using 59GB of 405GB, I've done a disc clean.
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I closed hotmail (took ages) and now everything else has sped up. Tried to re-open hotmail twenty minutes ago and I'm still geting the blue envelope with the blue matrix popping up!
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>> I closed hotmail (took ages) and now everything else has sped up. Tried to re-open
>> hotmail twenty minutes ago and I'm still geting the blue envelope with the blue matrix
>> popping up!
Did you reboot the pc after you shut down your mail reader app. What mail app do you use btw?
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>>Did you reboot the pc after you shut down your mail reader app. What mail app do you use >>btw?
I didn't re-boot, as I noticed a windows update has been downloaded, so I'll do that overnight.
Mail app? hotmail?
Hotmail's still not re-loaded.
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I think Z is asking do you just go to your browser for Hotmail or do you use some other program, if so which one?
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If you are using the Windows Mail app, this stopped working on my wife's computer. An install of Office Pro with Outlook sorted her problems.
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W10
Cumulative Update for 21H1 KB5014699
Feature Update 21H2
Both tried to install on 14/6/22 and caused machine to initially lock up in installing updates.
Of course this would happen as I came to send some time critical emails +files!
A nervous 'hard' power off - on. It rewoke machine and allowed me to send the necessary files.
However the machine was very slow and did not resume normal working until next morning follow various reboots and ' cleaning up ' cycles.
So I guess the problems are MS inspired.
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It's flying along this morning and hotmail loaded instantly. I guess it was an MS problem.
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My mate who is dependent on me for his IT brought his PC round a few months back, performing diabolically. It was a MS update which was trying to load but because it kept hanging he kept rebooting it so it never completed.
I just allowed it to complete and all was OK.
It's back in the same state now though... could be the same cause
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Whenever my 8 yr old desktop running Win 10 decides to have a treacle moment, I reboot it, then run CCleaner to clear out all the files (apart from saved cookies) from the web browsers I use, then back up the registry and clean that up too, also using CCleaner.
Seems to run fine again after that.
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Very slow hotmail - Zero
