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Troubleshooting and Resolving a Hang in 90 Seconds

Posted by William Diaz on June 3, 2011


I’m a stickler when it comes to performance issues on my workstation. So it bothered me when I noticed a small delay when right clicking on my desktop. By small, I mean literally 2 seconds. I opened SysInternals Process Explorer to quickly see if the CPU was spiking:
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I looked at the all the processes to see which process was the offender but the 45-60% CPU time was the total of several processes. After the menu opened and a few seconds later the CPU% would drop down to a normal 0-1%.

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