I have been a Norton subscriber for many, many years and have been quite satisfied with the product. One of the things that has always been somewhat of a concern, however, is that Norton can be a system resource hog and can sometimes slow my system to a crawl. For the most part, the slowdown is tolerable. Lately, however, Norton is slowing my system down to a point where I can't do anything at all and it is happening more and more frequently, especially when my machine is coming out of hibernation. My computer will wake up and then freeze. If I bring up Task Manager, I see that Norton Security has the disk access pegged at 100%, and that sometimes goes on for five minutes or so. During that time, hardly anything works at all, especially my browser. And even after my computer has been running fine for a while, Norton will sometimes kick in an again freeze everything up. I've talked to Norton support about this but the tech was clueless and tried to point the finger at Microsoft when I can clearly see from Task Manager that Norton Security is the offender. I'm no dummy when it comes to computers. I am a network engineer and have many, many years of troubleshooting experience. I would like to keep Norton, but I have been unable to get any reasonable answer from Norton support and the problem is getting so bad that it is affecting my day-to-day activities on my computer, so much so that today I went out and cancelled my automatic renewal. If the problem is not resolved by the time my renewal comes up, I will uninstall Norton and look for a different product. Has anyone out there had similar problems? If so, are there any solutions?
SFret:Why does Chrome open up to 20 lines on the Task Manager, anyhow? Hmmmm
You can read the details here:
Google Chrome takes advantage of these properties and puts web apps and plug-ins in separate processes from the browser itself. This means that a rendering engine crash in one web app won’t affect the browser or other web apps. It means the OS can run web apps in parallel to increase their responsiveness, and it means the browser itself won’t lock up if a particular web app or plug-in stops responding. It also means we can run the rendering engine processes in a restrictive sandbox that helps limit the damage if an exploit does occur.
Basically, each tab has one process unless the tabs are from the same domain. The renderer has a process for itself. Each plug-in will have one and so will each extension that is active.
You can see which process does what on:
Menu-> Tools -> Task Manager
https://www.howtogeek.com/124218/why-does-chrome-have-so-many-open-processes/
I'm having the exact same problem on my desktop. No solution but I can see the same thing on the Task Manager. Google Chrome does it to me, too.
I've turned off most of the startup items but still no fix. Why does Chrome open up to 20 lines on the Task Manager, anyhow? Hmmmm
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Hello VCook. From a professional standpoint, hibernation is never a good thing for a computer. You will run into issues with corruption if its done over an extended time. Alike hibernation having fast startup enabled will cause issues, in that. having it enabled doesn't allow for a 100% data release when doing a system restart, shutdown and a cold boot. Check for fast startup being enabled and disable it, then reboot. See if that changes things for you. Here is how to change that setting in case you aren't familiar with how. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4189-turn-off-fast-startup-windows-10-a.html
Cheers