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PhlegmMaster
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Well, not really, but that's what it feels like for several seconds or minutes after startup.
I purchased this PC (with Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit) a few weeks ago, and everything has been running perfectly until yesterday evening. I started playing Call of Duty 4, and I immediately noticed that it seemed my processor was having a really hard time, chugging really badly and almost coming to a halt for a few seconds, again and again, until finally the game freezed completely. I closed it forcefully and tried playing it again; same result, chugging all the time until it crashed. So, I scanned my HDD for viruses with AVG's free version and for spyware with Spybot Search and Destroy. Neither found anything. I restarted my computer and tried playing CoD4 again, now it worked perfectly! I figured I was rid of the problem, however it seems it's been replaced by a different one (or perhaps a different manifestation of the first problem). I have noticed that my computer is unusually slow for maybe one or two minutes after startup. For example, Firefox will take longer than usual to start after I click the icon (about 6-7 seconds instead of less than one second), Google's site (my home page) will load a bit more slowly, and if I type something in the search box, the letters might take a second or two to show up on screen! It's as if Firefox is chugging, just as CoD4 was chugging. The difference is that this stops after a little while.
What should I do?
Here are two screenshots of my processes according to Task Manager. There are two screenshots because the list is really long, there are more than 50 processes, which might be part of the problem:
http://i31.tinypic.com/xlwcg5.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/2ur5tv8.jpg
I purchased this PC (with Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit) a few weeks ago, and everything has been running perfectly until yesterday evening. I started playing Call of Duty 4, and I immediately noticed that it seemed my processor was having a really hard time, chugging really badly and almost coming to a halt for a few seconds, again and again, until finally the game freezed completely. I closed it forcefully and tried playing it again; same result, chugging all the time until it crashed. So, I scanned my HDD for viruses with AVG's free version and for spyware with Spybot Search and Destroy. Neither found anything. I restarted my computer and tried playing CoD4 again, now it worked perfectly! I figured I was rid of the problem, however it seems it's been replaced by a different one (or perhaps a different manifestation of the first problem). I have noticed that my computer is unusually slow for maybe one or two minutes after startup. For example, Firefox will take longer than usual to start after I click the icon (about 6-7 seconds instead of less than one second), Google's site (my home page) will load a bit more slowly, and if I type something in the search box, the letters might take a second or two to show up on screen! It's as if Firefox is chugging, just as CoD4 was chugging. The difference is that this stops after a little while.
What should I do?
Here are two screenshots of my processes according to Task Manager. There are two screenshots because the list is really long, there are more than 50 processes, which might be part of the problem:
http://i31.tinypic.com/xlwcg5.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/2ur5tv8.jpg
