Win 7 lags help

I have a Dell XPS M1730 with x7900,88m SLI,4gb ram. I have installed Win 7 Ultimate 32 bit. At first it was fast and fun. But now it lags a little bit. If I open some videos on any player, its takes like 15 sec, open a folder-3 secs, view the pictures-2 sec for each pic. So any idea how to fix this?

Thanks

 

Expecting little tips!

 

check ur cpu / memory usage

 

They are normal.

 

check power settings for usb, hid, and network devices.

 

Its on "balanced".

 

Disable your antivirus and give it another shot. It appears that everything you describe is related to file access. Disable the AV and try again. If that fixes the problem you will need to look for an update for your AV, disable on access checking, or uninstall and try something new like MSE.

If that isn't it the other options are a drive going bad, or a recent MS update. My bets are on the AV or drive.

 

Drive going bad means bad sectors???
It was working fine before. Any software to check on that?
Also, I have Kaspersky and I am thinking to uninstall it and give a shot.

 

Install the unreleased HOTFIXES released by Microsoft!

That solved my lagging problem with Windows Media Player when running MP3s. These hot fixes solve alot of bugs. They are not officially released by MS yet as they will be scheduled to be released within the next service pack.

You can get them here >>>

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/showthread.php?t=10571


NOTE:: I installed them all with one click using Windows 7 Update Pack Tool v1.3.1.0 (also available to download at the link above [towards the end]

 

Ok, I will give it a shot and post my results.

 

Ok, now the situation is even worse than before. It became more unresponsive and CPU usage is always 100%. When I checked the resource monitor, Trusted Installer"Windows Modules Installer" was consuming all the CPU. Any idea?

 

I just did a clean install. Even with a clean install, my hd was full. When I checked, it was winsxs folder inside windows directory. It is taking like 10 gb. Anyway to get rid or it or reduce it?

 

That is why it is generally NOT a good idea to install hotfixes unless they have been released on Windows Update, or you've read the kb article and it applies directly to you! Each of those fixes is made to correct a very specific problem. If you don't have that specific problem chances are it will do more harm than good.

Check for a folder named 'c:\Windows.old'. This will likely be several (many) gigs in size. This will contain the user, program files, and windows folders from the previous install. Work through the installation of your programs. If some programs need settings restored you will find them in there some where. Copy your docs, vids, and music back to their proper places and then you can delete that folder.

Winsxs stands for Windows Side by Side. MS refers to it as the component store, as it stores all the components for Windows or links to them - it is basically the OS and then some. There are multiple copies of dll's, exe's, and such-often different versions of the same file. The winsxs contains many files and hard links to the actual location of the files (system32, program files, etc). If you get technical there is actually only one copy of the file on the drive and hard links to those locations in the winsxs folder.

The winsxs folder is good. It is the main reason why you can image a live drive and it allows multiple programs to access the same file resource, plus adds stability and revisioning to the OS. Even though explorer reports it as being large it is not. Unfortunately explorer computes the hard link at the actual file size - it counts the file as being in the original location AND the winsxs folder. Basically the folder is large (hey, it contains the whole OS), but because of hard links you actually have more disk space than shown. Don't mess with it or you will likely be reinstalling again!

Now to see if your drive is going belly up... Use a program such as HDTune to check the health status of the drive and then benchmark it. Use the results to see if your drive is generally on par with other drives of the same model (google).

Run CHKDSK. Open My Computer and right click on your drive. Choose Properties. In the window that opens click the Tools tab. On the tools tab click Error Checking. A little box will open. Place a checkmark next to 'Automatically fix file system errors' and 'scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors'. Click OK.

It will come back and tell you the drive is locked and you will need to reboot. Reboot. Go have a beer or two and come back in a couple hours.

 

._. So it's basically fine to just delete the windows.old? It's taking like 200GB of my space and I'm afraid deleting it might cause some problems :/

The notebook drivers are copied to the new win7 folders right? o.o

 

the windows.old folder contains the documents, pics, vids, music, user folder, program files folder, and windows folder from the old installation. As long as you have all your programs installed and working (don't need any temp or settings files) then you can delete the Program Files and folder within windows.old. As long as you have all of your documents, pics, vids, and music from the old installation copied to your new install you can delete those folder from windows.old.

Drivers are not copied from the old installation to the new. Locating them and copying/installing them manually wouldn't be worth the effort. Visit the manufacturer's site and download the latest drivers for the Win 7 version you have.

The only thing I can think of that you would want in the windows folder would be wallpaper stored in windows/web.

If you want to be extra cautious you can copy the whole folder to another drive for a week or two just to be sure you didn't miss anything. Other than that, as long as you've moved the files you want to keep, you can delete windows.old.

 

Anyway to reduce the size of Winsxs?

 

There is no way to reduce the size of it, no.