In particular, focus on high memory processes running in the task manager that have names with strange characters or symbols. Perform a google search on the peculiar looking processes to find out if they are legitimate. Paying special attention to these processes, look for ones with unfamiliar looking names. If it is in ascending order, you can click the Memory or Mem Usage tab again to view the processes with the largest memory on top. This should display the processes in descending order of memory usage. Select the Processes tab and click Memory or Mem Usage to to sort the running processes by how much RAM they use. Open Windows Task Manager. Right- click the taskbar and choose Task Manager from the menu.

First, make sure that you have an infection.Īside from Windows running slowly, one telltale sign of an infection is the computer running programs and processes that look completely unfamiliar. Is your PC running slower or are you getting unwanted popups and ads? You may have a malware or virus infection. Here are 3 ways to remove infections.

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