Two General PC Queries.

services.exe - I know what's in it and how to view it but is there anyway to view which item causes a CPU hit every few seconds or do you have to disable each item in it until you find the culprit. Will disabling items in it cause any other problem?

Virtual memory - what actually goes into that to make it low. I know how to make it bigger but I'm just curious as to what is actually in it?

Cheers

Yep I've done that, thanks. You get to know what's going on but I'm trying to get beneath that layer. I can't see any info anywhere about how to view below that initial layer so I can isolate it. I'm wondering if people just do a process of elimination or something more scientific.

Yeah I'll post any findings. Watching youtube and videos has gone a bit like watching HD too. No virus, as far as a I know, but performance has gone downhill. I want to sort these spikes though and then attack what's making videos slow.

 I had similar problems almost a year ago today. I was "cryin' in my beer so to speak. The whole thing developed into an interesting conversation that would make a train blush, but I learned a lot. You can read about that here for kicks if you want.

http://forum.cakewalk.com...y+beer+man&mpage=1

 However the above post didn't help as much with cpu spiking. Brandon, I hope you are still this loose man!

 This post was the most helpful helpful. Particularly the post by Agundrum. I hope his links are still solid here,a lot of good info on tweaking your PC against these types of thing. It made the entire difference between my PC working well and spiking .

http://forum.cakewalk.com...16&high=cpu+spikes


....now let me get off my *ahem* backside and get something done.

Quick update: I haven't tried anything radical yet as I don't want my PC to implode but it's certainly getting worse. Video sometimes plays completely in slow motion, although the audio is at the correct speed and even on the lowest quality on youtube it's spluttering and popping and out of sync. All very strange.

It is windows and it's not DAW related. Just general PC stuff on the internet.

Yeah, I've done all that, cheers. It's seems attached to services.exe, which has a longish list of stuff in it and some things you can't even stop. You would need to uninstall, which is a no-no until I know what I'm doing, which could take a while in itself. It would be great to see what each part in services.exe was doing and zap the culprit but none of the available software breaks it down that precisely.

Not sure about the video slower than the audio bit. That's a new development.

Another tool that can be helpful:  Process Monitor (aka filemon, regmon, etc.)  available at sysinternals.com.  Tells you what's happening on your PC.  Takes a little time to use though.