Lagging

[Guest and1dant@aol.com]

I have a problem with something which I have no clue how to fix. Recently my

computer has been lagging or jumping or whatever its called. Well anyways

when I play music or a video or do anything in that general area, it will lag

every 2-3 minutes or so. I have a realtivily new computer (not even a year

old) and this problem has occured only recently which means I have not had

this problem before. I have tried refreshing my computer and doing everything

I possibly can yet it still occurs. Please help.

[Guest JS]

Re: Lagging

 

You need to find and identify the specific process or application that's

runs every few minutes.

You can do this with Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del key), select the

Processes Tab,

Next, click on the CPU column twice, this should bring the System Idle

process to the top (as long as

you are not using any other applications such as your music app.).

Then about every few minutes you should see another process

(the one that's slowing down your PC) float to or near the top of the 'CPU'

usage list.

 

For more exploratory and detailed look, download and try Process Explorer:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

 

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:

In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower

Pane' options.

(This will provide the detailed info you need)

Next click on the CPU column to sort processes by %CPU usage.

Then click on the process of interest that's listed in the CPU % column,

once it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select:

Search Online

This should display what out there on the web about that process.

 

Note: some entries like Explorer and svchost may need to be expanded to show

the detail,

(sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left of the

entry.

 

Another tool that might help is 'What's Running'.

http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

 

JS

 

"and1dant@aol.com" <and1dantaolcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

message news:4091FAD8-5FA7-4C43-929F-D0C255ED45CE@microsoft.com...

>I have a problem with something which I have no clue how to fix. Recently

>my

> computer has been lagging or jumping or whatever its called. Well anyways

> when I play music or a video or do anything in that general area, it will

> lag

> every 2-3 minutes or so. I have a realtivily new computer (not even a year

> old) and this problem has occured only recently which means I have not had

> this problem before. I have tried refreshing my computer and doing

> everything

> I possibly can yet it still occurs. Please help.

[Guest and1dant@aol.com]

Re: Lagging

 

THanks for helping but i am aware of this issue. I am positive that's not wut

is causing the lag. MOst of the time it will be just one program going with

nothing else running in the backround and yet the problem occurs. If you have

any other suggestions i will accept those as well. Thank you for your help

though.

 

"JS" wrote:

> You need to find and identify the specific process or application that's

> runs every few minutes.

> You can do this with Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del key), select the

> Processes Tab,

> Next, click on the CPU column twice, this should bring the System Idle

> process to the top (as long as

> you are not using any other applications such as your music app.).

> Then about every few minutes you should see another process

> (the one that's slowing down your PC) float to or near the top of the 'CPU'

> usage list.

>

> For more exploratory and detailed look, download and try Process Explorer:

> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

>

> Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:

> In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower

> Pane' options.

> (This will provide the detailed info you need)

> Next click on the CPU column to sort processes by %CPU usage.

> Then click on the process of interest that's listed in the CPU % column,

> once it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select:

> Search Online

> This should display what out there on the web about that process.

>

> Note: some entries like Explorer and svchost may need to be expanded to show

> the detail,

> (sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left of the

> entry.

>

> Another tool that might help is 'What's Running'.

> http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

>

> JS

>

> "and1dant@aol.com" <and1dantaolcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

> message news:4091FAD8-5FA7-4C43-929F-D0C255ED45CE@microsoft.com...

> >I have a problem with something which I have no clue how to fix. Recently

> >my

> > computer has been lagging or jumping or whatever its called. Well anyways

> > when I play music or a video or do anything in that general area, it will

> > lag

> > every 2-3 minutes or so. I have a realtivily new computer (not even a year

> > old) and this problem has occured only recently which means I have not had

> > this problem before. I have tried refreshing my computer and doing

> > everything

> > I possibly can yet it still occurs. Please help.

>

>

>

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: Lagging

 

and1dant@aol.com wrote:

> THanks for helping but i am aware of this issue. I am positive that's

> not wut is causing the lag. MOst of the time it will be just one

> program going with nothing else running in the backround and yet the

> problem occurs. If you have any other suggestions i will accept those

> as well. Thank you for your help though.

 

It's either a key-logger bit of spyware that's contacting the mother ship to

upload your surfing history or a trojan that's dumping another 250,000

emails.

 

Have you done an extensive check for malware?

[Guest and1dant@aol.com]

Re: Lagging

 

Actually my computer just ran an anti-virus and there are no porblems as far

as viruses and those things. I am not that computer savvy as you might tell

so I just need an explanation of your computer lingo because I don't know

what a trojan, malware, or a key-logger contacting the mothership mean but

thanks for helping. I don't know maybe you are right. I will try it if you

can give me a little more detailed eplanation.

 

"HeyBub" wrote:

> and1dant@aol.com wrote:

> > THanks for helping but i am aware of this issue. I am positive that's

> > not wut is causing the lag. MOst of the time it will be just one

> > program going with nothing else running in the backround and yet the

> > problem occurs. If you have any other suggestions i will accept those

> > as well. Thank you for your help though.

>

> It's either a key-logger bit of spyware that's contacting the mother ship to

> upload your surfing history or a trojan that's dumping another 250,000

> emails.

>

> Have you done an extensive check for malware?

>

>

>

[Guest Daave]

Re: Lagging

 

and1dant@aol.com wrote:

> I have a problem with something which I have no clue how to fix.

> Recently my computer has been lagging or jumping or whatever its

> called. Well anyways when I play music or a video or do anything in

> that general area, it will lag every 2-3 minutes or so. I have a

> realtivily new computer (not even a year old) and this problem has

> occured only recently which means I have not had this problem before.

> I have tried refreshing my computer and doing everything I possibly

> can yet it still occurs. Please help.

 

What do you mean by the term "refreshing my computer?" Are you referring

to the Refresh function in your Web broswer?

 

Do you regularly perform routine maintenance on your PC?

 

Other than audio and/or video, do you have any other problems? When you

say "play music or video," are you referring to streaming from sites

such as YouTube? What happens when you play music or video that has

already been downloaded onto your hard drive or off a CD or DVD?

 

What kind of Internet connection do you have?

 

For better help, please provide the following:

 

- make and model of your PC

- type/speed of your CPU

- amount of RAM

- size of your hard drive and amount of free space