crash_sc wrote:

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.


crash_sc

No problems. It helps others if you hit REPLY so they see the original
Post, as others may need a similar solution. I wanted your Experience
scores to make sure there was nothing untoward with the main drivers and
the video driver. They look fine.

Indexing is a good thing, after it has run its course. If you do decide
to put it back on, do so and leave it running for 24 hours while you are
not at the computer. If you go to the Microsoft page, you can download
v4.0 of the Indexing and that is MUCH better as far as search. I
suspect a little better at the initial indexing as well.

Run this on-line tester at Secunia. It is quite non-invasive and
doesn't add anything to your machine and will make sure you have all the
Windows updates and Java etc

http://secunia.com/software_inspector

Also go here

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...s/default.aspx

Half way down the page, download the Autoruns.exe file. This is an
excellent free and non-installed program to check and alter any start-up
programs and easiy to disable them in your quest for perfection smile

I see there is a new process monitor that may help as well

Good Luck

Frenchy