sluggish

I did a clean install of windows 7 yesterday, and before I had even started installing programs I noticed my system was sluggish. After loading up on my programs and getting my documents in place, it has been basically unusable without tweaking in ways I'd rather not stick to. I've run a...

I am wondering if it is my hdd or something else, if I transfer a big file "3gig" from partition 2 to partition 1, at the same time, open up IE or anything, My system becomes very sluggish, transfer speeds shows copying the 3 gig file from 30 mb/s & drops to 20 mb/s when I try to open something...

I've been using Windows 7 x64 for quite a few months now, and there was a bug on the beta version that I thought was gone in the RC, but I see it's still here. Initially I was wondering why the Windows Photo Viewer was so darn sluggish compared to it's counterpart in Vista. From opening images...

Here are my system specs: Intel Core 2 Quad 8200 Gigabyte EP43-UD3L mobo 2GB DDR2 Corsair memory sticks WD 160 GB SATA HD EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB with GPU Apevia 680w PSU and P4 12v ATX adaptor for CPU Sony DVD Drive and CD ROM that are on the same IDE cable but jumpers might be wrong So...

Here are my system specs: Intel Core 2 Quad 8200 Gigabyte EP43-UD3L mobo 2GB DDR2 Corsair memory sticks WD 160 GB SATA HD EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB with GPU Apevia 680w PSU and P4 12v ATX adaptor for CPU Sony DVD Drive and CD ROM that are on the same IDE cable but jumpers might be wrong...

I've been trying to troubleshoot a very sluggish Windows 7 install for a couple days, and need help finding the cause. The culprit according Process Explorer is that the System Process runs at 100% CPU usage, and when I view the threads, it's actually dxgmms1.sys that's doing it. Does anyone...

Hi all, I've just upgraded my Vista Home Premium 32Bit (media center computer) to the 32Bit 7100 RC build of Windows 7 (doing upgrade not clean install). I have a couple of problems with the new Win 7 Media Center Firstly it is really sluggish! When I click on the menu items it takes a...

Well I just received a new laptop yesterday and decided I would jump on and install Windows 7 RC onto it. I had been running it on my Lenovo S10 for a while and was really liking it. I was a little disappointed when seeing my Score within Windows 7 and thought something might be wrong, i know...

So, I decided to install and test out Windows 7 seeing how I've already bit the bullet and bought Vista Ultimate OEM. I know I'm shit out of luck with that money, but I wanted my new computer to be all legit and what not. Anyways, I am coming from a Linux Distro and the Windows 7 install went...

So, I decided to install and test out Windows 7 seeing how I've already bit the bullet and bought Vista Ultimate OEM. I know I'm shit out of luck with that money, but I wanted my new computer to be all legit and what not. Anyways, I am coming from a Linux Distro and the Windows 7 install went...

Anyone know why my Desktop computer which has much better hardware would run Windows7 slower than my Laptop? Desktop is: 3ghz dual core Asus P5K motherboard 4GB RAM 250GB Western Digital 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 8800 GT Laptop is: Dell 1520 2ghz dual core 2GB RAM 150GB Western Digital 7200 RPM...

I'm running Windows 7 beta 7000, x64 Bit, (fresh install) and despite a few little bugs (like the gadgets not working when UAC is disabled), I find things are quite robust. However, one thing that is insanely slow compared to Vista or XP is the WINDOWS PHOTO VIEWER. Even opening tiny images...