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Odd Issues: Explorer taking 70k, Chrome not loading pages,system hangs
i dont know where exactly to put this since it spans such a massive amount of software and hardware anyways:
I have a Dell Inspiron M1050 with an AMD Triple Core (2.3 Ghz) and an ATI Radeon 4250 HD Integrated.
4 Gb RAM
500Gb HDD
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (obviously)
so, ive had this laptop for over 3 years, i know its past the expiration date. anyways about 3 months ago it started getting the .wav explorer hang issue, where windows 7 tries to read .wav data and cannot support it therefor causing explorer to freeze. this was annoying but i fixed it by editing the Registry so it no longer is allowed to read .wav information.
After doing above however i realized that it was time for my annual Format and Reinstall. i completed that, updated everything, i have my 6 programs i actually keep on the computer and for some reason its incredibly slow. when i go to My Computer it will hang for a sec before loading drive info, and when i click to enter the drive it will freeze every other time. other weird symptoms were the drive pictures, in the left hand side (images for my pictures, music, etc) did not load. programs are taking forever to run, they run poorly randomly. and the worst is that webpages, completely randomly, wont load. itll be stuck in a loading loop. i run google chrome, but it doesnt seem to be software related. i have 15ms ping, 15mb down, 2mb up. so not internet.
the computer says it still has 4gb of RAM. and my cores (according to my CPU Usage monitor) arent being overloaded except when im transferring files.
other weird issue: when going fullscreen in youtube videos the UI wont load. but they video will, so whatever is running the overlay for the video on my side is obvioulsy broken, could be why sites like facebook wont load.
this laptop used to be super fast when it came to opening system menus, drives, etc. and would transfer quickly, but now its all gone to **** and i have no clue why
TL;DR: Computer is running slow, not loading drives, transferring slowly, explorer is running at high resources, webpages will get stuck in a loading loop. but still has RAM and fresh OS install.
Last edited by ranzerox; 23 Jul 2013 at 22:58.