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New computer keeps experiencing lag
I have a brand new machine (I7-2600k) with 8GB RAM. However, I find the computer very sluggish in general.
I believe the issue to be with the hard drive – is there any software I can download that ...
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Very slow internet on Sony VAIO, Windows 7
I am on a University connection plugged into the wired connection. About 50% of the time I am using my computer, my internet runs very slow. It takes me ages to buffer any streaming videos online, my ...
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Computer lags an unreasonable amount after recent wipe and load; specs and details inside
Laptop specs:
i7 Q720 @ 1.60GHz
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series (this is what device manager lists it at but it should be 5830 to be exact)
6 GB of RAM
It's an HP Envy 15-1000se CTO, other specs ...
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1080p HD Videos lag
It lags the least with MPC-HC Player under "Overlay Mixer Output" setting but still the audio and video gets out of sync eventually due to the lags.
I want to ensure perfect playback by compensating ...
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iMac 2006 Screen draw lagging and breaking up
I have a late 2006 iMac that ever since OS Lion was installed is lagging when I zoom in on my image editing in Photo Shop CS4. May have lost the original CD for it. Is there another way I can do a ...
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unresponsive system when running io heavy operation
I have a HP Pavilion Elite e9105f running Ubuntu 11.10 Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64 with unmodified core system. When I try to run some io heavy command such us dmg2img, cp -r, the system becomes ...
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Windows 7 mouse drag lag
When selecting text or click-and-dragging in any app, the selection/scrollbar/item being dragged always lags a few characters behind the cursor when the cursor is moved quickly. It's a slight issue ...
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Page file becomes enormous
I have reinstalled winXP a few months ago on my 6 year old laptop with 512 mb of ram and 1.6 ghz celeron M processor.
Everything seems to run fine, I've fixed the overheating problem about a year ...
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Why is my mouse lagging?
Don't remember this from earlier, but my mouse is lagging when I refresh specific websites in Chrome and Firefox. I can't observe such lags with Internet Explorer.
Here's a video i made
I tested ...
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Issue with home network
I have a problem with my home network that I have managed to narrow down a bit, but I'm not sure what to check next.
The network behaves just fine, until my wife also connect via WiFi (I'm also ...
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Windows 7 Lagging with multiple disks
I have an EVGA SR2 build with two Intel Xeon X5680, 48GB ram OCZ Reaper HPC Series at 1600 MHz running on Windows 7 x64 Proffesional. My bootable hard drive is an OCZ Vertex II 120GB and I have an ...
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Some Portions of Computer Running Slow (Specifically Graphics)
I noticed that a few things are running slow today on my Windows 7 laptop. Specifically, they are:
Opening and closing windows takes several seconds for the animation to complete.
Windows media ...
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I see user interface lag in ubuntu 10.10, but there's no obvious cause that I can tell. Where else do I look?
A few years ago I finally gave up using windows for my main development machine. So I installed the latest ubuntu and I've been keeping up until 10.10, which is what I have now. The machine is a core ...
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High latency when writing big files. How to prevent more-than-second page faults when quickly filling up FS?
When I do cat /dev/zero > /some/file all processes tends to become slow (even non-IO related). latencytop shows "Page Faults" are more than 2 seconds. Swap is not used.
Adjusting vm.dirty* does ...
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Recording a video game on a P4… speed me up, Scotty?
I'm trying to record a d3d game, but I have HUGE lag issues. I'm on a p4 with an onboard 128mb 3d video card and 2 gigs of RAM. I'm trying to record quarter-size video with only 15 fps, but I'm ...
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New router - lag spikes
I've recently bought a new router (actually not me but my family, and I consider their choice as bad).
Now I have some lag spikes all the time when I use internet. It's mostly seen in games but also ...
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What is the difference between restarting the computer once and restarting the computer twice?
I was noticing that when I restart my computer for the first time, it is "less clogged", and immediately after restarting I restart it again and it feels even "less clogged".
This made me wonder, ...
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How can I fix lagging sound in when playing videos?
Sometimes, when I am playing a video, the sound lags the video by a bit (±2 seconds is not unheard of). Is there a player that can go two seconds ahead on the audio, or two second behind? It would ...
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My laptop takes ages to startup, after recent format. Whats up?
After a boot sector crash, I formatted my hard drive and reinstall Windows 7 from scratch.
Although my laptop now takes ages to startup (about 10-15mins!) and after I'm logged in, everything lags!
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Win 7 long HD bursts causing lag
When I'm working on my computer (usually using Word), I experience these annoying long HD hits which freeze up my typing or other activities. When I look at the Resource Manager (Disk) at the times ...
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Microsoft Arc mouse lags on Windows 7, ok on Ubuntu
I have a Microsoft Arc mouse, and it lags horrifically on Windows 7 despite being only a few feet from the receiver. It was perfectly fine beforehand on an Ubuntu box.
I've installed the latest ...
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What is normal boot time for Fedora 15 with encryption? [closed]
Not sure what's normal load time for encrypted boot. The drive has three partitions. The first is Windows, the second is /boot, and the last is LVG (/ and /swap). This is on my Thinkpad IBM r40 1.3GHz ...
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What is up with my CD-Rom drive on XP?
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I think this is a specific problem that is very strange. This is my first time on the forum, so I hope I am writing things correctly. I have a computer I built myself and here are the specs:
ASUS ...
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Windows 7 , CPU usage hikes up to 100%
I am having this issue of lag in Windows 7 Professional, the CPU usage is 100%, even if I am only watching video on GOM player, nothing else is open, but the usage is 100%, or if I open Firefox/Chrome ...
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Why does my computer run slowly and freeze sometimes?
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I disabled sound in the BIOS, rebooted and it hung.
I removed the (previously) faulty HDD, rebooted and it hung.
I have managed to get my Realtek audio manager open again after its mysterious ...
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Logitech DiNovo Edge Bluetooth keyboard lag
I just bought myself a Logitech DiNovo Edge to use on my HTPC. Whenever I use the touch pad or hit a key, there is a delay (a little less than half a second, I'd guess) before the computer reacts - ...
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closing windows: ctrl-W vs alt-space C
when closing a window (like notepad or windows explorer), I've been realizing that when i do Ctrl-W there will be a short lag but when i do Alt-Space-C there will be no lag. Does anyone know what ...
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How do I calculate how long a packet will reach its destination?
I am stuck with this homework question. I honestly have no clue what it is talking about. I been absent from class due to some personal reasons.
The question asked: You are transmitting 100 bit ...
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Ideas on why using my user account on OS X causes stuttering/lagging?
I just had my MacBook returned from service and copied my old user folder into /Users and everything worked fine as expected. But even though the machine is really new, only 20% space is being used, ...
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Windows 7 Basic Theme “frame lag” of some kind
I have been having a problem with my computer(laptop) when using the Windows 7 Ultimate Basic Theme.
The problem I'm having is that, whenever this theme is active, and I move one window over another, ...
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Bluetooth speakers lag
There seems to be a 200ms lag on sound when I use my blue-tooth speakers (1/2 meter distance) in windows 7 (belkin 6.0.1 vista drivers.). Is there a way to reduce this?
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Lag in GTalk messaging - Both in web client, and various windows clients
I am having a weird issue of GTalk messages lagging. I can test it easily with the computer next to mine:
When I send a message from computer B to mine, via GTalk, it comes to my computer almost ...
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Logitech v220 Wireless Mouse Click Sticks
I have a Logitech V220 mouse on my laptop (the one with the little USB dongle). Occasionally, it will get pretty laggy, and slow to move around. Also, when this happens, the OS will sometimes only ...
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HDMI on Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H MB has stuttering sound on XBMC
I'm running XBMC Live 10 (ubuntu 10.04) on my htpc and I've had so much trouble getting the audio to work. I've managed to get audio in the menu to work after following this tutorial:
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Everything slows down except internet browser
I've been getting this crap several times a day and the only solution is restarting - which we all know is a pain in the * and incredibly slow. I'm tired of dealing with it, so I'm asking here if any ...
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Switched to new router and now experiencing lag?
I switched from a dynex-802.11b/g to a Netgear-802.11b/g/n just yesterday. My router is down stairs because my phoneline upstairs is retarded....but my PS3 is still upstairs (SOCOM: Confrontation is ...
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Bluetooth mouse lags, then has “delayed playback”
My Bluetooth mouse will occasionally freeze for a second, then replay my movements delayed by a second. This "delayed playback" behavior lasts several seconds, consistently lagging a second behind, ...
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How to fix choppy video with VLC player?
When playing most movies in VLC player, the video feed is choppy. Furthermore, the sound is near perfect. Another catch is, this video issue wasn't always an issue. I use to play movies with no ...
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svchost causing problems
Lately I've had one particular svchost.exe instance that's often spiking up and taking 12-40% of my CPU. The services it's hosting are:
FDResPub (Function Discovery Resource Publication)
FontCache ...
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Lenovo S10 very laggy on startup
I have a Lenovo S10 netbook, and recently the computer is slow and laggy. Applications take a long time to start, mouse and keyboard input is choppy, etc. It has been dropped a few times, and has been ...
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Excel 2003 Insert Function Wizard Animation Lag/Delay/Stuttering
I'm using MS Excel 2003 on Windows 7. I get animation lag anytime I open or close the Insert Function Wizard. I'm running on an ATI Radeon HD 4870 with the latest drivers (Catalyst 10.8 -- ...
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How to fix sound lag Windows 7
Good night.
For some reason, when i am listening to music in Windows Media Player, and browsing something, i have a huge lag in the sound, and the page that is loading in the browsing freezes for ...
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Impact of fragmentation in Games
I'd like to ask, if you install about 15 GB (2 - 3 games) on a system partition (and your pagefile.sys is located on the other drive), could it cause the fragmentation to occur in that way, that the ...
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New computer lag when booting Windows 7
Lately I've composed my new computer. But I have often a problem with the following scenario:
-> after turning on computer, the system (Windows 7 Professional 64-bit) is not getting up (I see a black ...
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Chrome 6 shows tabs only after a long delay when many tabs are open
I have the issue that when I have a lot of tabs open, switching to a new tab will cause a long delay in page loading, making the application pretty hard to use.
I do have 4GB of ram, however Chrome ...
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How can I detect what is causing a performance hit and sound lag on Windows7?
I have a brand new powerful Sony Vaio with Windows 7 Professional but I still experience very often lags in sound when playing videos in VLC, Flash videos, Spotify, Skype. I try external speakers / no ...
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How to fix massive lag on ZyXEL HomePlug AV powerline adapters?
I have 3 ZyXEL Homeplug AV powerline adapters as per the one in the review below.
I have two plugged in currently, one into my Be / Thompson wireless router, and one into my desktop pc (box1). every ...
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Port 53 UDP Outgoing flood
I am experiencing very huge problem. I have 4 computers in network, and from each a lot of data is being sent to ISP name servers. Sometimes data is being sent a little from each computer in network, ...
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Server and Network Lag
At my home I have a server and my computer. Server has Windows Server 2008 Standart 64 bit installed and then my computer has Windows 7 64 bit installed. My home router is DIR-615
My server has a ...
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Why does xvid encoding lag/lock up windows 7?
It seems to encode just fine.
If you look at the mouse cursor you'll see firefox locks up once i click it. Calculator seems fine but when i try to move it, it locks up. The resource monitor and task ...
