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    Vista Lagging in opening any programs

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by royski007, Sep 17, 2009.

  1. royski007

    royski007 Notebook Consultant

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    Specs:
    2 Ghz Core 2 Duo
    4GB ram
    Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
    Kaspersky 2009 internet security.

    hi every one, we got a problem here where the system laggs before opening a program like firefox, office, ccleaner etc.
    After i click on a program it takes about 30-60 sec for it to show up. On ccleaner it will show the UAC after about 30 sec. the HD light is not on hard and the CPU is not on full load.
    This just started recently.
    i tried minimizing amount of startup items in msconfig and also tried turning off UAC which didnt help.
    What ive seen as well is that when i browse using FF, it may freeze just randomly for a few seconds.
    By the way, opening windows explorer always works flawlesly.
    any idea, anyone?
     
    royski007, Sep 17, 2009
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    royski007 Notebook Consultant

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    anyone? still need help. id appreciate it :)
     
    royski007, Sep 18, 2009
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  3. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    This could be just about anthing...

    Point 1:
    What were the most recent chagens on your OS before this occured?

    Point 2:
    Have you checked the error logs (although I fear they may not help, but maybe we get a luck break)

    Point 3:
    Have you defragmented your Harddrive (to exclude fragmentation as a possibility)

    Point 4:
    Have you run a virus scan? Let one run overnight just to make sure.
    (I picked up some somehow... running KIS - I wonder how)
     
    DetlevCM, Sep 18, 2009
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    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

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    It could be any number of things.......

    Might as well run a full battery of test. Chkdsk. Memory tests, the works. Cause it could be anything......
     
    surfasb, Sep 18, 2009
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    Have you tried a system restore? That could probably help.
     
    Amnesiac, Sep 18, 2009
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    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    and break stuff in the process...

    Some applications don't like system restores :(
    I'd only use it as a last resort - and for me system restore = reinstal :(
    (Unless I can use that image Nero created for me)
     
    DetlevCM, Sep 19, 2009
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    i got it fixed.

    system restore didnt work it kept failing.

    what i did was to disable a few MS services that were not necessary like the liveone care that wasent removed propperly and some other Vista services like the search indexing and some other unnecessary services.
    its just weird that it didnt do that for a while. i think it started after some vista update.
     
    royski007, Sep 19, 2009
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    probably just msblast.exe
     
    Kocane, Sep 19, 2009
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    ähm....

    Well, this didn't solve your problem really...

    Disabling services can be bad - and search indexing is useful.

    The only services you can safely disable are the ones you add yourself (or via software).
     
    DetlevCM, Sep 19, 2009
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    I dont think indexing service was the one causing the lag anyway. but i had it disabled just because i want to increase performance. reboots now are really quick. i read the Tips for vista thread to help me with disabling services.
    i think it was the 1care from misrosoft. it still showed the firewall service running. and we all know having multiple security softwares can bog the system down. Its just that it didnt start doing that for the first few days after getting kaspersky.
     
    royski007, Sep 20, 2009
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