I was wondering whether anyone could assist with a little problem that I have discovered with my laptop since this morning. Basically it now seems to take an eternity to boot up (normally takes under 30 seconds for desktop to appear). Once the desktop and all the icons appear it then seems to be really laggy and slow with any applications taking a while to fire up once the icon is clicked. FSX and games themselves are not playing ball either and appear stuttery or laggy as if the laptop is struggling with them. The laptop just does'nt appear to be firing on all cylinders at the moment.
I have never had this issue before and I almost daily use spyware programs such as Ad-aware and Spybot. My anti-virus is AVG which has run a full scan and not picked anything up and I have also ran CCleaner which I conduct religiously everytime I come off-line. And no I have'nt been on any dodgy sites.
The laptop is an Acer 9513WSMi;
Intel duo T2400 (1.83GHz)
NVidia 7900 GS 512MB
240GB 5400rpm HDD
2GB DDR2 RAM
WINDOWS XP Home edtn
Any ideas gents? Or at least where should I start checking?
Thanks in advance.
I suffer from paranoid amnesia. I can't remember who I don't trust.
The totals at the bottom show cpu usage of only 12%, so I guess its not a CPU problem. A tip is to click on the colum heading... in your sceenshot "c..." (this would say CPU if the column was expanded) anyway, by clicking in it, it would sort it from highest to lowest... clicking on it again will sort it lowest to highest. All achedemic in this case though.
Could you do a screen shot of the performance tab when its running slow?
Also, if you look in the event logs just after you log on and see if there are any funnies. To acces the event logs, right click on "My Computer" and select "Manage"
On an XP machine (from memory) the three logs are Application, System and security. The most recent entries are at the top of the logs, so in each case (but most likely the system or Application log) check for errors or warnings within the time window of your last log on. (Check the date as well as I've seen errors in event logs, but then relised an hour later that although the time is similar to when I was have the problem, the date was from weeks earlier. STUPID )
tried all that matey as you instructed and it does'nt appear to throw anything out of the ordinary up. Perhaps a de-frag may help? I'll try that and report back.
I suffer from paranoid amnesia. I can't remember who I don't trust.
Well you could run CHKDSK /f on the command line and that may well fix the error in that Nvidia driver file. You would then be able to successfully defrag
You could also download and install the latest Nvidia WHQL approved driver.
Something is using 30% of your CPU but it is not seen in that screenshot - try doing as Ben suggested - click on the column labelled "C.." to sort the CPU use to see what is hogging it. At the moment the tasks are sorted by memory usage.
I suffer from paranoid amnesia. I can't remember who I don't trust.
