PC running a bit .... sticky!

Dogboy73 · 15 Nov 2009 at 14:02

Just recently my PC seems to be running like a broken poofter. I click on something, sometimes nothing happens & I have to click again & sometimes again. The Internet seems a little laggy yet when I try an online speed check my broadband speed seems fine. After boot up things are very slow to warm up & get going. It's working fine I'm sure but the whole experience seems just a little 'sticky' of late. I've tried the usual things - defrag HD, virus/trojan scans etc. There doesn't seem to be any major problems that I can see. Perfmon shows thnigs quite settled although the page file does seem to spike horribly whenever I do anything. Not sure if this is normal or not. I'm just wondering what else to try.

Dogboy73 · 15 Nov 2009 at 18:46

Cheers for the replies. I was thinking a complete re-install might be on the cards.

I'm possibly looking at Windows 7 + a new gfx card so I might play around with some of the things on links posted above beforehand.

Dogboy73 · 17 Nov 2009 at 17:18

doggs said:
Check for dodgy programs running - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Check for dodgy programs starting - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Scan with security essentials - http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

Tried all those. I don't really know what to make of what I'm seing though so they are of limited use. Might just do a clean install of XP. By the time I've figured things out I could have just formatted my HD & re-installed everything anyway. Sometimes it's best to use a sledge hammer to crack a nut

Dogboy73 · 17 Nov 2009 at 18:32

.... strange. It seems to be running fine tonight!!

Dogboy73 · 18 Nov 2009 at 20:48

..... going like a broken poofter again now! WTF is up with this thing. Time for a fresh OS install me thinks

Dogboy73 · 21 Nov 2009 at 17:55

SiriusB said:
The first thought that came [oh dear] into my head after reading the thread title was "lay off the porn".

Good tip. The only time I've had any real problems with my PC has been after a good old porn session :cool:

But this problem is weird. It's not like anything is seriously wrong. Not even noticeably wrong. It's just that you click on something & it hangs. So you click again & it's sweet. Weird problem.

Dogboy73 · 23 Nov 2009 at 18:36

iNPUt said:
I assume you only have one hard drive, if so this is irrelivant. Sometimes my second hdd goes to sleep then it takes a few seconds to spin up again.

I have a second drive used for back-up but I've not had a problem with this before.

GobzzzMp3 said:
Defrag?

The main drive was actually a little fragmented (16%) but unfortuantely a defrag had no effect on this annoying issue.