11/14/2023 0 Comments Hosts file entry aded with w10privacyThe Foxit PhantomPDF plugin has been disabled in both Pale Moon and Internet Explorer.Spybot Search & Destroy’s TeaTimer (resident protection) has been disabled.Malwarebytes resident protection has been disabled. (It is entirely possible that I’ve missed listing something that was done.) Just to get everyone up to speed, here is the state of things as of today, in terms of changes made to the PC. Wonder if it might even resolve the sluggishness once it does emerge, which of course would entail less work. Now it might be interesting to see if the sluggishness is set back (delayed) indefinitely by stopping the DNS Client service at regular intervals before some threshold is reached. Scrolling down the list, I saw that, from around 200,000KB, RAM usage by Dnscache was back down to 27,000KB. Next time I went back to Task Manager, svchost.exe had dropped out of sight (I have the list sorted by Working Set RAM usage). In the meantime I’d gone back to look at some candidates for having a dependency on Dnscache, and then hit upon the idea of doing that screenshot, which took a few morr minutes. The last paragraph above, I wrote a while ago. (I was still working on this post, but the service restarted before I could come back to the browser to resume typing.)Īha! But now here’s a promising-looking clue. There was no time to do anything special or different on the PC. When you ask, “does the properties tab for any of the other services show a dependency on DNS Client?”, do you mean checking the Dependencies tab in the Properties that are offered when you right-click on a service in services.msc? Note that there are 189 services listed there, with 92 currently running any paring that could be done on the number of services to be checked would be welcome.Īs a possible shortcut, I clicked on the dependencies for DNS Client check out below the lower pane which (supposedly) lists the “components” that depend on this service:Īt your suggestion, I stopped Dnscache: it started back up within 3 seconds with a new PID. Indeed, one of the frustrating things about this problem is precisely that the issue takes a day or two to re-emerge, and yet there’s been no way to tell for sure that the changes made have solved the problem, other than waiting to see if it comes back. These several day gaps make it difficult to follow this thread. What differences in security tools do you have between your faulty PC and your other PC(s) which are working OK? This may give a clue.īTW: As my intention with these suggestions is just to see what causes DNS Client to start (assuming DNS Client is the cause of your problems), you do not need to wait several days for the sluggishness to return between changes/PC reboots, the thing to look for is the RAM usage continuing to increase, not the sluggishness. I think we have considered MBAM enough – it is fine in scanner only mode without its service continually running with the “Start at PC Startup” slider at Off). (BitDefender is widely used, your other things I had not heard of. In pruning leave BitDefender until last – you need an AV but maybe do not need the other stuff. If DNS Client restarts due to one of your many security tools (I think someone earlier mentioned his/her VPN?), do you really need that security tool? (The consensus a few weeks ago was that you have a lot of security tools and some pruning would be a good idea. If it does not restart despite your normal PC usage and hence the RAM and CPU usage does not increase does your PC continue normal operation indefinately? If it does not get restarted then maybe something is starting it in error at PC startup and a work-around could be to stop DNS Client a short time after PC startup (either manually or using a scheduled task). If you just stop the DNS Client service (using services.msc) without any reboot does it restart? If it does restart what other PC activity takes place between stopping it and it restarting? Check each of the service properties in services.msc to try to find what started DNS Client.) I think you wrote earlier that the DNS Client properties (in services.msc) showed no other service dependent on DNS Client, but we know that MS information is not always complete, so does the properties tab for any of the other services show a dependency on DNS Client? (My point: Service A dependent on service B, should show A dependent ON B in A’s properties and B depended on BY A in B’s properties. So the question now is: What has started DNS Client? (BTW Garbo, your help has been very valuable how about formally joining Woody’s? □ ) Below is the text of the last post, submitted by the anonymous contributor who signs as Garbo, followed by my reply. This is a new thread intended to pick up the discussion where we left off in the original “ Windows 7 PC gets very sluggish” thread.
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