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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
Task Manager shows spikes of " idle tasks" or some similar wording. But nothing else.
Removed a bunch of old stuff the other day, and defragged. It was at 22% fragmented. No change noticed.
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Look on the "performance" tab. It will show you how a graph of how much memory is in use and there are additional details. If you're constantly into the "swap" file, you'll notice seriously degraded performance.
The A/V you use is another potential issue. Symantec and McAfee both have large footprints and consume lots of resources.
But if you're slamming the paging file all the time, more ram is the answer.