lagging

Everytime I try to watch something or do anything after a few minutes my CPU will start running hard and everything get's really choppy. I tryed completely re-installing windows and the problem came right back. I don't know what is causing it to do this. It was fine for a year and now all of a...

My operating system is Windows 7 and I'm not a computer smart as I want to be. I'm preparing a powerpoint presentation for Veteran's Day with Office Pro 2010 and I use youtube videos in them. When I download them I convert them to Windows Media Video (V.7WMV) so I can play my presentation...

Hello, Recently, my computer's sound has started crackling. It has become worse and more frequent as time has progressed, and I am finally starting a support thread to help me resolve this. The sound crackling is either mild or absent when I first restart my computer, but if I leave my...

I'm on Windows 7 Professional, 32-bit. I think it was safe to assume that I was recently infected with a trojan virus. But was either quarantined or deleted by my anti-virus. i use the CPU Meter Gadget to keep track of my CPU and RAM usage. It is working but it is lagging. Like the arrow is...

This is the 3rd time that Windows 7 crashes in such a way that recovering/repairing is impossible. A fresh installation I put on a second partition finally seem to work smoothly and without errors when it crashes after a few days. The current installation is still working, but lags and gives...

So I recently reformatted one of my (oldish) HP laptops with Windows 7, and the hard drive is not happy with the driver that it's using. Once the system loads up, the hard-drive keeps lagging to read. It would read for a second, then stop for a second, read, stop, read stop. It's not the...

Hi All, I've catagorized this issue in "Video" because that is where it becomes most apparent, however it shows up intermitently throughout the day ... mostly when I am doing anything graphic intensive. My System: PC - Shuttle SX48P2 Deluxe OS - Windows 7 Ultimate RAM - 8 GB DDR3 VIDEO -...

As the title says, whenever i install, or extract something on my computer, everything seems to lag horrendously and often freeze. This started happening when i re-installed windows 7 onto my computer because i had way to many programs installed that i couldn't uninstall and almost no hard drive...

I couldn't actually figure it out which one out of those three happens, I will try to explain as best as I can. I get totally random lock ups. Happens during a game, watching a movie, browsing or just listening to music. Sometimes it lasts for a minute, sometimes 90 secs or so. But it's not a...

i need help ok so my laptop was lagging and stuff and i thought i got a virus and so i did a system restore and stuff i installed my video driver and stuff but i cant play at as good detail i was playing WoW at default setting with no lag at all but after system restore i even lag at lowest what...

If you find Vista's performance lagging, the good news is that you can make it run faster. Here are some of the steps you can take. More...

Recently I am starting experiencing a big problem. Whenever I am starting any program my CPU usage gets really big and when this program is turned on it gets to 5-8% again. Imagine how it chokes when Im looking any video or playing any game. IT LAGS. Even crashes and looks like sleeping. I'm...

Hi I have win 7 ultimate running on a 4core intel Q9450 and a nvidia 8800gt Just lately if i do anything in explorer like add a new folder .. move a file to another folder etc it almosts stops! it can take literally a minute or more and the sometimes i have to refresh to see the changes. I...

Hello! I have a prolem that started about 2 weeks ago. What happens is that programs randomly start to hang and be unresponsive. I have had Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Windows Explorer, Rainmeter, Teracopy, Live Messenger, and many more programs just stop responding, usually, a few minutes...

Hi I was wondering if anyone can help. My TB hard drive is slowing down windows... I bought me a 1 terabyte Samsung hard drive from esquire for R648 quite a bargain. But ever since I've installed it stuff start taking longer and maybe it’s just me it’s not much of a lagg but like on a...

I had a lappy which ran the fps games i had fine. But when i got my new pavilion dv6-2005tx notebook, which btw is much better then my old lappy. I couldnt play bcus i kept freezing or lagging extremely bad. i asked for help on forums and they said that its because i have windows 7. So can any1...

Basicially 1st install = BSOD's and BlackSOD's without curser, CTRL + ALT + Delete does nothing, ran memtest and had some bad memory. 2nd install - New ram installed, installed all the latest drivers from manufactureres website, flashed Bios with latest driver, after all this it still...

I tried installing GTA IV both in windows xp x34bit and windows 7 x64 bit.... For Windows xp x34 bit, it worked great without any problems... even while patching the game the game is detectable... But for WINDOWS 7 PRO x64 bit, i got several problems. INSTALLER PROB : Fixed via other ppl's...

Hi all, New to the forums but not to Windows. I just recently built a new system as an upgrade from HP Elite m9340f Media Center PC. I bought a new Mobo, Video Card and PSU. I used the HDD, RAM, CPU, DVD, and TV Tuner card from the HP in the new build. My current specs: Gigabyte...

Good day guys, girls and gamers. I had a problem with lagging in Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. The one day I was so desperate that I activated my Memory Diagnostic Tool at the startup menu. I just wanted to see if this will have an effect on the problem. Well I am astounded, my lagging has...