Solved AERO themes causes severe lag in the web browsers.

I am using two web browsers (IE11 & Chrome) and when any AERO theme is enabled those browsers starting to lag after awhile (tabs opening/closes in 2 frames, scrolling lag and any website layout becomes laggy), I can fix it by minimizing and maximizing them but it gets annoying really quickly since it could happen multiple times in a few minutes or so.

If I switch theme to windows classic - nothing of this happens.

Additional thing I noticed is that when lag appears - taskbar thumbnail preview animation also appears to be slow, not smooth like it usually is.

What could be the cause of this?

Laptop Conf: i7 2.4 Ghz 3630QM, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GT650M SLI, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 + all updates.

SOLVED

Solution for NVIDIA owners:

1) Go to NVIDIA Control Panel -> Manage 3D Settings -> Program Settings.
2) Add Desktop Window Manager (DWM.exe at windows/system32 folder) and Explorer.exe (at windows folder) there.
3) In Power Management Mode for both applications change settings from "Adaptive" to "Prefer Maximum Performance".
4) Hit "Apply" and reboot your system.

Welcome to Seven Forums DARKWORLD. Your specs are certainly more then adequate that you shouldn't have this issue. Next time it happens, open Resource Monitor and see if you have excessive CPU or Memory usage.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/12523-resource-monitor.html

You could also try changing the Visual effects setting to Adjust for best performance, and see if the problem still occurs.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1908-visual-effects-settings-change.html

A Guy

Hello, thank you.

Resource monitor during lag doesn't show anything strange. CPU usage at about 3-5%, RAM about 40-50% used.

Also I tried adjusting visual effects for best performance, but ultimately it just switches to windows classic theme and I have no such problems with classic themes.

It's odd because it's not a common issue, and certainly not with specs like yours. You might try a clean start and see if it occurs then.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html

I would normally suspect an addon/extension, do you have one common between these browsers? It would be worthwhile to try disabling them to test as well. A Guy

Thanks for suggestion!

I did a clean startup and I cant say for sure, but the issue seems to be gone now. Need some further testing though, since it randomly occurs and sometimes not very often.

I cant see anything criminal among those programs though... Mostly NVIDIA/Intel programs & a defrag utility.

EDIT: Spoke too soon I guess, worked whole day without those lag's, but in the evening they appeared again for no reason and all that during clean startup... Totally clueless right now.

I'm swamped with work during the week. I'll ask for some more eyes for your problem. A Guy

Did you turn off the Nvidia software which tags along with the driver which is all that's really needed unless you overclock or need other special settings not provided by Win7? I always turn it all off in msconfig>Startup and >Services after Hiding all MS Services. Nothing is really needed in either place except your AV.

If you left any other Startups or Non-MS Services under msconfig then I'd turn them all off, including for a limited time your AV to test without it.

Try uninstalling Display driver in Device Manager and Control Panel>Programs then enable Automatically deliver drivers via Windows Update (Step 3) and Check for Updates, install all Important and Optional to see if it delivers a driver Win7 wants, and/or patches which are needed for the hardware to run correctly.

On the chance its a failing GPU, edit out of Visual Effects fading, sliding, animation, dragging intact and Selection Rectangle which put a strain on resources so I always edit out on low-resource machines - same principle to reduce strain on possibly failing GPU.

If no joy, work through the other http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/220165-troubleshooting-steps-windows-7-a.html

Could you post one of these when you encounter your problem?
Use this tutorial by Brink.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

gregrocker said:

Did you turn off the Nvidia software which tags along with the driver which is all that's really needed unless you overclock or need other special settings not provided by Win7? I always turn it all off in msconfig>Startup and >Services after Hiding all MS Services. Nothing is really needed in either place except your AV.

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Yeah, I tried disabling all the NVIDIA services, it didnt help.

gregrocker said:

If you left any other Startups or Non-MS Services under msconfig then I'd turn them all off, including for a limited time your AV to test without it.

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Hmm, okay, I'll try and test with AV turned off.

gregrocker said:

Try uninstalling Display driver in Device Manager and Control Panel>Programs then enable Automatically deliver drivers via Windows Update (Step 3) and Check for Updates, install all Important and Optional to see if it delivers a driver Win7 wants, and/or patches which are needed for the hardware to run correctly.

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I did that too, not helping at all, thanks for suggestion tho.

gregrocker said:

On the chance its a failing GPU, edit out of Visual Effects fading, sliding, animation, dragging intact and Selection Rectangle which put a strain on resources so I always edit out on low-resource machines - same principle to reduce strain on possibly failing GPU.

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But in games it working fine, no lags or anything... Also I bought W8 2 months ago and browsers never lagged in W8.

Layback Bear said:

Could you post one of these when you encounter your problem?
Use this tutorial by Brink.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

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Sorry, I didnt quite get it. You want me to post lists of services/startup programs or something else? I am not sure what you outlined there...

Try uninstalling and reinstalling Flash player using the tool and download from Adobe: Uninstall Flash Player | Windows

I would uninstall all Nvidia in Control Panel, reboot, rightclick on PC in Devices and Printers to enable Hardwsre Auto Updating. Check for Updates to install all Important and Optional which should include drivers and needed patches that may resolve your issue. These may be suppressed by the Nvidia bloatware which causes only problems seen here.

What I wanted is you to post pictures like I posted except from your computer.
Your msconfig. The ones I posted was just a example of what I would like to see from your computer.

The tutorial I posted will show you how.


Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Seven Forums

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

gregrocker said:

Try uninstalling and reinstalling Flash player using the tool and download from Adobe: Uninstall Flash Player | Windows

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Okay, I just did a clean FP install. Cant really tell if it will still lag though, need further testing.
The problem here is that FP is preinstalled in Chrome as it says o adobe website so the only way to reinstall it is to delete Chrome and I already tried that, so it probably wont work.

gregrocker said:

I would uninstall all Nvidia in Control Panel, reboot, rightclick on PC in Devices and Printers to enable Hardwsre Auto Updating. Check for Updates to install all Important and Optional which should include drivers and needed patches that may resolve your issue. These may be suppressed by the Nvidia bloatware which causes only problems seen here.

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Yeah, tried that too, it just finds some older drivers, no patches or fixes though.

So the best so far is to do a clean startup, that somehow suppresses the lag but after a few hours it occurs again...

Layback Bear said:

What I wanted is you to post pictures like I posted except from your computer.
Your msconfig. The ones I posted was just a example of what I would like to see from your computer.

The tutorial I posted will show you how.


Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Seven Forums

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

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Sorry, I misunderstood that.

Here they are:

How did we go from understanding the need to have nothing starting up with Win7 for best performance, to having as many startups checked as the grossest factory install?

Do you have the Lenovo factory install which like all factory installs is the worst possible install of Win7 one can have? If so I would strongly consider doing a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html#post1839164 since no tech enthusiast would run the factory install which is larded with bloatware and poorly-written duplicate utilities that interfere with better versions built into Win7.

That said, I also allow Lenovo Energy Mgmt but only for the purpose of throttling the battery charge to 75% when on A/C to preserve its life. There may always be one factory utility that is studied to be useful.

gregrocker said:

How did we go from understanding the need to have nothing starting up with Win7 for best performance, to having as many startups checked as the grossest factory install?

Do you have the Lenovo factory install which like all factory installs is the worst possible install of Win7 one can have? If so I would strongly consider doing a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html#post1839164 since no tech enthusiast would run the factory install which is larded with bloatware and poorly-written duplicate utilities that interfere with better versions built into Win7.

That said, I also allow Lenovo Energy Mgmt but only for the purpose of throttling the battery charge to 75% when on A/C to preserve its life. There may always be one factory utility that is studied to be useful.

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I said I tried booting without those and it still causes lag...

And no, its not a factory install its just a MS copy I downloaded from their site with OEM drivers.

By the way could it possibly be caused by those KB updates? Because when I installed this I thought there gonna be a huge batch of updates to install, but no - there were only like 4 updates and that's all. Seems like its been updated somehow already.

Post #12 shows just what I thought.
You posted that you turned all those things off. I don't see where you stated you turned them all back on again.
Misinformation is worse than no information.

Have a nice day.

You were advised you didn't need to run with all of those freeloaders starting up with Windows and said you'd turned them off, but the screenshot show otherwise - enough startups to choke a horse. This defeats the purpose of running a Clean Boot with only the AV and absolutely needed programs that you can't do without starting with Windows, which always gives best performance and many fewer issues. This is not guesswork. Our forums tutorial on turning off Startup Programs - Change has been followed by several million users. These are firmly established Best Practices.

When you reinstalled you obviously reimported a bunch of Lenovo programs that are not needed and defeat the purpose of doing a Clean Reinstall. These duplicate and interfere with much better versions built into Win7 causing issues. If you're not willing to do a perfect reinstall, then I'd at least uninstall the Lenovo crapware except for the Energy Management if you want to prolong battery life. Then turn off all the Startups in msconfig>Startup and msconfig>Services after Hiding All MS Services. If your problem persists it might be resolved by doing the install over with attention given to how drivers are best handled in Win7, which steps are so important they are printed in red in the Reinstall tutorial.

Likewise you reinstalled the Nvidia software which causes many visual problems we deal with here by uninstalling it since its not needed at all, only the display driver alone. Nor is the Intel software needed. A wireless utility duplicates Win7's superior wireless and always adds unnecessary baggage to startup and resources.

You may also have a failing GPU. One way to test this is to run with a boot disk like http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/256518-peppermint3-create-live-cd-dvd-usb-use-emergency-backup.html. This completely cuts out the hard drive. In fact you can unplug it to eliminate it as a suspect.

Unfortunately your not showing on the services pic which of the services are still running or stopped ?

But yea you have a full boat even though you show 8 gigs of ram your also only showing 2.4 ghz :/
I believe I have the same on a 4 gig ram system :/
Although not a i7 as yours would that make a difference ?

Personally I stop at utorrent at startup

Well a little two cents worth from me and I have to agree that is way too many boot programs - for me at least.
Plus I might suggest running these if you haven't already


http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html< if necessary include the /f switch in the command line as per Option2
if these do not get anywhere these again if you haven't already

http://www.superantispyware.com/

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

ADW download frombleeping computer delete any rubbish found with the malware scans

I am no expert and am just suggesting these as an issue of elimination.

Now while I ma thinking of it I just found this on another thread and it has transformed my screen 1000%
GeForce 344.11 WHQL Driver

DARKWORLD said:

..... And no, its not a factory install its just a MS copy I downloaded from their site with OEM drivers.
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... just a MS copy I downloaded from ??? their ??? site with OEM drivers ???

What site? Microsoft or Lenovo?

You have to be careful where you get your install media - the only trustworthy media is an original disc, media created by the OEM recovery utility, or the official Microsoft ISO.

Your specs say Win7 x64 Ultimate - what does the COA sticker say on the laptop? (bottom or battery compartment)

Please provide the following report, it might show corruption in Windows activation or other information that would prove useful in resolving the issue on your machine.
http://www.sevenforums.com/windows-...ne-activation-issue-posting-instructions.html

Thanks

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As Slartybart says mate if you want the freshest version available you can always get it here

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html#post1839164 if you so wish and you will not get the bloatware that the machine manufacturers put out see pic