Thanks for the reply.

The lag I experienced under XP was worse (continued for 4 or 5 hours,
through multiple reboots, then cleared up all by itself) than any I've had
in Vista. And since XP only recognized 3gigs of RAM, and lets face it -
Vista is prettier, I did a factory restore. CHKDSK came up clean. When I
first started looking into the problem I read up on the Indexing service,
but ruled it out since the lag also occured in bootup before Windows loaded.
I disabled it anyway, just to see how it turns out. Thanks for the link, I
had disabled all unneeded/unwanted services in my last setup, and just
finished redoing that. Also went for advanced performace for the HD. I'll go
through more on that list a tomorrow. Months ago when the lag first started
I ran a freebie RAM tester I found online. I'm going to try Windows Memory
Diagnostic tomorrow when I have some more time. My Windows Experience score
is as follows...

CPU - 5.9
RAM - 5.5
Graphics - 5.6
Gaming Graphics - 5.4
Primary HD - 5.9

5.4 Overall.

Right now, I'm paying closer attention to what processes are running when,
so I can compare if/when the lag starts up again.

Thanks again for the reply.


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