Would really appreciate some diagnosis

My laptop sometimes starts up dead slow, with some Windows Vista processes taking up way too much CPU. On idle, and with AVG and the sidebar, my processes are very high.

However, after a restart, its almost 50/50, and i will get a good restart.

This is after a clean reinstall, and now I don't know what I can do.

This didn't happen until Dell came round and moved all my components from one laptop base, to another laptop base. Do you think that is the problem?

 

I'm not sure what you mean by 50/50, but you might want to check out BlackViper for help with your problem. Look under "Features."

 

Which processes are these? If you don't know what the process is, Google the process name. (If it's "svchost.exe", then it's a system service... so then look at what services are enabled.)

Hmmm... could be search indexing. You can try adjusting the search indexing in the Power Options control panel... or disable the service by running "services.msc" and disabling it. Or just let it run overnight till it finishes indexing your drive.

 

thanks for the link, i'll keep reading his web page.

but for example...last night i restarted my pc and the whole time i was using it, i had processes like dwm.exe, audiodg.exe, and svchost and explorer running my laptop wild (CPU usage between 60% and 100%, even when idle. I've had to turn off sidebar from starting up because that alone was taking 15% to 30%.)

this morning, i do the same thing, and idle is now 99%/98% even with firefox open! this is how my computer was in the first 10 days, before Dell came round, or...before i installed Call of Duty 4. (i love it when my computer works like this). sidebar uses about 2-4% here.

i just don't understand what the problem could be.

why does it seem to be a coin toss whether my laptop with start up with funcitonality, rather than almost 100% CPU Usage.

 

i thought it might be search indexing so i disabled everything but the start menu. Nothing slowed my computer down in the first 10 days of running it, it was really fast, and all of the (search indexing, system restore etc..) services were on. do you know what might be making my computer so picky about starting up properly?