"Deferred Procedure Calls" - bringing SO's laptop to a near halt
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:28 am
My SO has a laptop that is running *very* slowly, even when he has hardly anything open. We have done all of the usual AV and Spyware checks, and they've come up totally clean.
Then, last night I suggested he download Sysinternals Process Explorer which was recommended to me by Xandax some time ago.
Once he had installed it, he found that something named "Deferred Procedure Calls" was causing a massive drain on system resources. A Google search did not yield much information, other than informing us that the same problem has caused a lot of people out there (even some with high powered machines) to come close to the "sledgehammer treatment."
But, we still don't know exactly what "deferred system calls" does (the information we saw was written in highly technical language), and we have no idea how to resolve the problem.
I can post his system specs later if need be, but from the little I've gathered it doesn't seem to make much difference in this particular case.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Then, last night I suggested he download Sysinternals Process Explorer which was recommended to me by Xandax some time ago.
Once he had installed it, he found that something named "Deferred Procedure Calls" was causing a massive drain on system resources. A Google search did not yield much information, other than informing us that the same problem has caused a lot of people out there (even some with high powered machines) to come close to the "sledgehammer treatment."
But, we still don't know exactly what "deferred system calls" does (the information we saw was written in highly technical language), and we have no idea how to resolve the problem.
I can post his system specs later if need be, but from the little I've gathered it doesn't seem to make much difference in this particular case.
Any help would be much appreciated.
), then try seeing which files/handlers is listed under the process which hogs the ressources. It might give an indication of what the problem could be.