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Win 7 randomly starts lagging
As the title describes, my Windows 7 starts lagging all of a sudden.
The best way to detect lag is to view any animation and check if it runs smoothly. Following tend to be choppy:
- The equalizer in Winamp
- The progress bars in applications
- The tab animations in browsers (when opening / closing)
- Noticeable delay to open files and folders
- Sometimes the games lag too inspite of me having a decent GFX
The lag starts appearing when I keep memory intensive applications running / minimized for quite some time. These include Waterfox, Eclipse (Java IDE) etc.
The lag is fixed by a reboot. Also, sometimes when a heavy I/O is taking place (e.g. huge file transfers from HDD to portable drive).
So does this have something to do with Win 7 or is something wrong with my RAM (though I highly doubt it!).