Windows Lagging in windows vista... wtf, need help!

ok i have windows vista ultimate. and every like 1min-1 1/2 min, i get this strange lag that slows down everything, sound, video, mouse movement, keyboard typing, everything! this is really annoying, i figured i should update, and i did, and then i got the newest video drivers, and still nothing... need help, this is really annoying and cant afford to reinstall atm...


thx
Crazyglue

 

Have a look in Task Manager and see what process is causing the CPU usage to spike. Or try a search-everywhere Windows Defender and Antivirus scan.

 

hmmm, while i have the task manager up, it doesnt seem to lag, at all.

quick question, is there a guide to disabling windows services for vista? link would be great

 

Can you open the resource manager and look there?

I use this guide myself, but I don't think it's a misbehaving service (unless you're running 3rd party ones like AV or something, those can cause memory leaks.

 

Remove any uneccesary hardware? I had a similar problem with XP a few years back which turned out to be a dodgy firewire card.

 

I don't know if it specifically addresses problem such as you're having... but you might find this Tweaking Windows Vista article useful anyway?

 

removed all unnecessary hardware (was only a stupid front firewire connector, need my dual gpus) and no change :-(

went through the vista tweak guide with no results, but less ram usage

scanned my entire harddrive with ad-aware, avg, symantec, and no results

watched my task manager as it was happening, System idle process was still the most cpu usage..

any other suggestions? plz help!

 

Have a check in the Reliablility and Performance monitor. See if anything else is spiking, like the HDD or RAM usage.

 

ok, i found out what the problem was

on my abit aw9d-max, the little pci slot sound card thingy was plugged in, and i had the front audio plugged into that. when i unplugged it everythign worked great! lol

finally i can game in peace

 

ok, the problem started again, only on my mini/lan PC... i have almost nothing plugged in... please help!!!! tried everything above again, and with no luck :-(

 

I found last night for some reason Steam was causing massive spikes in usage, so set the priority of it in task manager to lowest, which seemed to do the trick.

 

ok thanks, im gonna try that and see what happens