Windows Quirks: Slowdowns & Odd Things!

Goksly · 14 Jul 2009 at 22:28

Hi,
Fairly recent pc build (E8500, 4gb ram etc) and everything was fine, until (I think) I installed java. Since then I got random freeze in IE8 (mouse would move, could alt+tab etc, but webpages / tabs were frozen). I uninstalled the java framework and things seemed to be fine, but the pauses are back. I've had task manager running and the cpu % is generally less than 10.

One weird thing I've noticed, is that after a freeze, if I close the browser down and open it again, my cookies have been deleted.

Any ideas? Running KIS2009, so should be virus free? (fingers crossed).

Almost forgot: Windows Vista Ultimate - SP2 / 64-bit

adren · 14 Jul 2009 at 22:49

Any add-ons? My AVG clicksafe / linkscanner thing was playing havoc in ie8, didn't even realise it was installed until I looked at the add-ons list.

six-leaf · 15 Jul 2009 at 04:25

Have you checked if any specific services are hitting your HDD/CPU particularly hard? Resource monitor and the ever useful "Go to services" are very handy in that respect. Or you could just try some sysinternals utilities?

Goksly · 15 Jul 2009 at 13:28

yeah looked at add ons and the only things which shouldn't have been there was the java plugin (still there after I uninstalled from control panel?) and BHOCookieHelper or something. I've marked them both has disabled, but freezing still happening. Only other ones on list were kaspersky (been there since i got pc) and adobe flash / pdf.

Think resource monitor will defo be the next place to look (forgot about that - only had vista for a few months), Cheers.