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Geek Culture / Weird Lag/Task manager problems?

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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 3rd May 2007 04:25
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Hey all,
I got this weird problem that comes around every now and then. It's like when I move my mouse around about every 2 seconds it pauses ever so slightly. Not much but enough to cause massive amounts of frustration. It's just like I'm using a lot of CPU or RAM.

So my first thought is to check the task manager. my CPU usage is a tad high hanging in the 35-40 range so I sort down the processes by CPU and find that my system idle process is staying between 95-99.

So there seems to be some sort of error in there. Is this a virus or something else? I dont notice any suspicious processes and I have yet to link one with the problem. any ideas?

TIA!

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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 3rd May 2007 04:28
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Forgot to mention I could fix the problem by rebooting and then it doesnt come back for a few days...

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Van B
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Posted: 3rd May 2007 13:57
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This is usually down to badly written software, spyware, viruses etc - like they try and open a port or connect to something then when your firewall refuses them, they keep trying, and keep using up all your processor.

A decent virus and spyware protection system should get rid. I'm prepared to be corrected, but I quite like Kaspersky, there's a free month trial - if it fixes the problem then maybe it's worth registering. I'm using it at home, and it's got rid of so many little niggles, it kicks AVG right in the nuts. AVG often causes the problem that is affecting you!.


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indi
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Posted: 3rd May 2007 14:07
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Its a shame when you cant share advice without a disclosure agreement.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 3rd May 2007 15:13
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Personally my main PC is grinding a bit when first booted up for the day. Only been happening for a month or so, but is well annoying. It could be one or two things, but I'm guessing it is either the latest Windows patch or the latest upgrade to SpySweeper. It's not obviously hardware as when I boot up the Linux partition it practically flies (is a AMD64 4400+ with 7800GT etc etc). Hard to pinpoint though, especially because the task manager takes a while to appear too in the beginning (once it appears then everything is pretty much running ok again). My final option I think is StarDock stuff, although thats been working fine for the last 6 months. Still updates can kill you.

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spooky
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Posted: 3rd May 2007 15:27
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I found that my system lagged badly for a few minutes each morning and tracked it down to windows updates. If you have system set to automatically download windows updates, but Ms servers are busy, then it keeps trying to download them for quite a few minutes before giving up and rescheduling them for next day.

I simply turned off auto-downloading of updates and set it to just notifiy me when new updates are available and then I manually update. As updates are usually only onece a month then it does not cause much hassle, and system is far better now on booting.

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