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| Thread ID: 115789 | 2011-02-03 08:50:00 | PC is Lagging for no reason | Civic (15464) | Press F1 |
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| 1174985 | 2011-02-04 01:30:00 | I wouldn't think it had much to do with CPU or memory loading, you have those in abundance. Rather I would look at software and hard drive space. Does the system drive still have plenty of space available ? Are a lot of unnecessary processes running ? Is the hdd light showing much activity when you are "lagging" (I'm not a fan of the way the word lag is used these days - to me it refers mainly to network delay) What programs have you installed recently ? Windows Defender is anti malware not AV and doesn't usually cause any noticeable load on system resources, MSE replaces defender and adds AV capabilities and also doesn't load the system up much if you wanted a free alternative to Avast to try. I would try posting a hijack this log for speedy to look at, or going through the add remove programs list and deleting anything you don't use then running CCleaner and possibly Defraggging the hdd (or not defrag's have minor impact on performance on modern pc's). Most Windows slowdowns are a result of the bloat that accumulates over time, or a resource hogging piece of software or poorly wriiten AV or anti malware program. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1174986 | 2011-02-04 01:40:00 | I wouldn't think it had much to do with CPU or memory loading, you have those in abundance. Rather I would look at software and hard drive space. Does the system drive still have plenty of space available ? Are a lot of unnecessary processes running ? Is the hdd light showing much activity when you are "lagging" (I'm not a fan of the way the word lag is used these days - to me it refers mainly to network delay) What programs have you installed recently ? Windows Defender is anti malware not AV and doesn't usually cause any noticeable load on system resources, MSE replaces defender and adds AV capabilities and also doesn't load the system up much if you wanted a free alternative to Avast to try. I would try posting a hijack this log for speedy to look at, or going through the add remove programs list and deleting anything you don't use then running CCleaner and possibly Defraggging the hdd (or not defrag's have minor impact on performance on modern pc's). Most Windows slowdowns are a result of the bloat that accumulates over time, or a resource hogging piece of software or poorly wriiten AV or anti malware program. How many startup processes and perhaps a fragmented drive! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1174987 | 2011-02-04 03:35:00 | Are you using Windows 7 64 bit? | stingray68 (7305) | ||
| 1174988 | 2011-02-04 06:45:00 | sorry civic has lost his internet connection after we had a powercut up here, he thinks it is either lines or isp problem. :pf1mobmini: |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1174989 | 2011-02-08 02:48:00 | Well I've got internet connection again and I did post last night but it doesn't seem to be here so I'll try it again. When I said Windows defender as firewall I was thinking of Windows firewall, but I've turned off defender now. Smart6 is now uninstalled but I haven't noticed much "lag" recently both with and without it. I don't think it is to do with the Hardware either as it doesn't run many apps that would challenge it. Software is usually kept to a modest amount and theres not usually too many things that I don't use often, at the most is a handful of games installed. HDD space wouldn't be a concern either, on the OS HDD (232GB) 120GB is free, and on the secondary HDD (931GB) 761GB is free. I can't really see the HDD light when it is "lagging" as my PC is beside me and the light is on the top of the case so I can't get the chance to. I have used MSE before but I find it never picks up anything (that could be because theres nothing to be found though) so I'm giving Avast a try. I hope its not a result of Windows bloat as its only been a month since its been installed, then again it is Windows 7 64bit The HDDs shouldn't be fragmented as they came with the PC so only a month old as stated. Maybe I should say one more thing, the "lag" is only occasionally and has seems to be a lot less recently so maybe Windows was just having a fit. Windows starting up is decent but it could be faster, and the "lag" at startup has mostly gone as well, and the "lag" isn't related to PC load as far as I can see as its happened when I haven't been playing games. |
Civic (15464) | ||
| 1174990 | 2011-02-08 03:01:00 | Probably not what happened but on new PC's sometimes they perform slowly for a while while the search function busily indexes all the files in the background. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1174991 | 2011-02-08 03:04:00 | Which is why you disable indexing | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1174992 | 2011-02-08 03:07:00 | And windows search if Win7 has it. I cant remember | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1174993 | 2011-02-08 03:18:00 | I know a lot of people don't like the indexing for the performance hit, but once finished it stops causing problems and really does speed up searches quite noticeably. So if you regularly search for things on your pc you may want to leave it on. At any rate I mentioned it only as a possibility. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1174994 | 2011-02-08 03:21:00 | But who exactly uses the search option?? I know whats on the hdd since I put it there. I've never used it on XP (I've actually removed indexing on a slipstreamed XP CD), Vista or Win7. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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