Windows 7 Speed & Performance Harshly Fell

Hey everyone. While using my PC today Windows 7's performance and speed harshly fell for no reason what so ever. I wasn't downloading anything, running any scans, defragmenting, nothing. It was just normal use of the Internet and sorting out my Media Libraries. Another thing I have noticed is that some features are not working for example, you know when you minimize a Window you usually see the Window drop onto the taskbar? That doesnt happen for me. It just disappears. Also, you know when you open a program and it fades in from the background? That doesn't happen either. Whats happening? Have any ideas what could be wrong? And sorry I made this post so long. Thanks!!

ishmael9100 said:

Hey everyone. While using my PC today Windows 7's performance and speed harshly fell for no reason what so ever. I wasn't downloading anything, running any scans, defragmenting, nothing. It was just normal use of the Internet and sorting out my Media Libraries. Another thing I have noticed is that some features are not working for example, you know when you minimize a Window you usually see the Window drop onto the taskbar? That doesnt happen for me. It just disappears. Also, you know when you open a program and it fades in from the background? That doesn't happen either. Whats happening? Have any ideas what could be wrong? And sorry I made this post so long. Thanks!!

Ishmael Hi and welcome

It seems like you are having two distinct problems.

First the internet slowdown, and second the window minimize. Lets work on the internet first

Are you running "homegroup" for networking? On some systems homegroup has connectivity issues. It uses a newer IPv6 and some older hardware has intermittent fits with it.

You can test that by creating a net network connection using "workgroup". If it works (and I think it might) you can disable the IPv6 and even remove the "homegroup"


Let us know if you need further assistance with this.

Jan

Thanks for replying! The AV I use is avast! 5. Also, I use SUPERantispyware for spyware. I've tried MBAM before and it wasn't going so well for me. It took a really long time to update. So I didn't bother. I will give it another shot though. Do you recommend any good AV that can be used with avast? Thanks.

JMH said:

ishmael9100 said:

Hey everyone. While using my PC today Windows 7's performance and speed harshly fell for no reason what so ever. I wasn't downloading anything, running any scans, defragmenting, nothing. It was just normal use of the Internet and sorting out my Media Libraries. Another thing I have noticed is that some features are not working for example, you know when you minimize a Window you usually see the Window drop onto the taskbar? That doesnt happen for me. It just disappears. Also, you know when you open a program and it fades in from the background? That doesn't happen either. Whats happening? Have any ideas what could be wrong? And sorry I made this post so long. Thanks!!

Ishmael Hi and welcome

It seems like you are having two distinct problems.

First the internet slowdown, and second the window minimize. Lets work on the internet first

Are you running "homegroup" for networking? On some systems homegroup has connectivity issues. It uses a newer IPv6 and some older hardware has intermittent fits with it.

You can test that by creating a net network connection using "workgroup". If it works (and I think it might) you can disable the IPv6 and even remove the "homegroup"


Let us know if you need further assistance with this.

Jan

I don't use any Homegroups for networking.

Petey7 said:

Once MBAM updates (which does take a long time the first time around) it is a good on-demand scanner. I scan with it about once a week to make sure nothing got past MSE. I wouldn't recommend using another real-time AV at the same time as avast!.

Okay, thanks for the advice! I will give it a shot.

Petey7 - Suprisingly, it took less than 10 seconds to download. Should I run a full scan or quick?