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Ridiculous performance problem Windows 7 Pro RTM x64
At work I have a Dell Optiplex 760 machine with a Core 2 Duo E8600, 4 GB of RAM, Radeon HD 3450 graphics card, 320 GB hard drive, etc. for reference.
I formatted the drive completely (OEM partition, and Dell's XP Pro image) and setup the drive for Windows 7 Pro RTM x64 (an ISO I got off TechNet). When the setup finished and I get to the desktop I notice that the CPU utilization is sitting at 40% idle from an unknown process (meaning I can't see it even when showing all processes) and the graphics are running really slow (just by moving windows). First thing I do is look at device manager and make sure all the drivers are installed and it turns out only a PCI device and PCI communications device are not installed. I then updated the graphics driver from Windows Update (dated 5/16/2009), and the problem is still not fixed. After I went to AMD's site and got the latest Catalyst display driver for Windows 7 x64 and in the middle of the installation I got a blue screen...
Anyone know what could be causing this? What does the problem lie?