Windows 7 - Occasional Heavy Lag Problems

Hey,

Every now and then (today and yesterday) my computer, a pretty new windows-7 HP laptop, gets a ton of lag. First webpages will stop loading. Next when I try to restart my browser I can't open it again. From that point I can't open any new programs except for small things like notepad. I can still use some pre-loaded programs such as trillin (a chat client), but not all (such as google chrome, firefox, and IE). The only way I can fix it is by restarting my computer.

I ran a virus scan (both Norton and Malwarebytes) and I didn't get anything.

Any idea what's up?

Hi, cosmic50!

Have you checked the Task Manager to see what is sucking up your CPU cycles during this time?



It could be Windows Indexing coupled with an Anti-Virus doing the same. Other issues might be at play but until you identify the offending program via Task Manager, I can only guess.

If I get the lag again I'll make sure to try that. I thought it was a virus, however MalwareBytes didn't pick anything up when I did a full scan.

the CPU usage was really low, though, when it was messing up.