Incredible random slowdown

[labecs]

Hi! I did the clean install of Win 7 last week, and now I'm finding that very often, everything in my system slows down. If I click on a program icon, it will take around 20 seconds to start. When I try to drag something on the desktop, it stops half way and freezes. Win Explorer freezes way too often. I can't open IE cause the window stops responding as soon as it opens. Once I'm inside some programs, the response is sloooow.... for instance Word... saves take forever. I have gotten all new and compatible programs for Win 7, expensive move but I thought it would help but it doesn't. The computer used to run fine with Vista 64, it was always super fast.
Please, somebody help me, I'm terribly frustrated and I need it to work! I wouldn't want to go back to Vista, which I don't think I can do without buying it and I'd feel stupid doing that.
I'm not a computer pro, so use normal terms when you explain it to me, please

 

[torrentg]

I'm not a computer pro, so use normal terms when you explain it to me, please

Hi and welcome.

Sure. This will probably be not too difficult to fix. But then again....heh.

What you want to do is visit Intel's site and look for a Windows 7 driver for your video "Intel G33/G31 Express Chipset Family."

If you don't find one for Windows 7, you can use Windows Vista driver instead.

Install whatever you find, then reboot the computer. Let us know how it goes for you.

Edit - Install this driver.

If you installed Windows 7 64-bit, use this driver instead.

 

[richc46]

torrentg is probably correct but if not, do a virus scan. Cant hurt should be done, anyway.

 

[labecs]

Thank you so much.... but it didn't work
I downloaded the driver, and tried and clicked on it to install it. First I get a message that says: "This file should be replaced with the correct readme for the build"
I click next and then it tells me the driver is not validated for this computer.
I tried to update the driver from device manager, and it tells me it has the latest drivers installed.
What else can I do?

 

[richc46]

Try uninstalling the old driver first.

 

[torrentg]

You may have used the wrong driver. Try the other link I gave.

 

[labecs]

Ok, it worked when I uninstalled the old driver... what a scare!!! Everything went BIG! Lol!! (First time )
Anyway, the good news is the screen is back to normal, the bad news is that the programs I had problems with, still have them. Word is still slow saving, and opening a document. My Paint Shop takes forever to open... IE just does not respond, it just crashes as soon as the window opens. In short: no change!
Help??

 

[richc46]

If this is a recent problem, you may want to try system restore, somethin is corrupted.

 

[labecs]

I was able to fix IE by setting it to the default settings again. Now it seems to be working. I still don't know about the other stuff. Unfortunately, the slowdown has been happening since I did the clean install of Win7. Before that, I had done the upgrade from Vista64HPremium, and everything was running fine, except for some other problems I was having... so you think I could fix it by doing the Win7 install again? I don't want to have to reinstall everything... again...what's your opinion?

 

[richc46]

You could try with the install disc, again. But, this time early in the process, when it asks check repair, that may work.

 

[labecs]

Hi, again... I tried repairing and everything was the same. Slow, not responsive, frustrating. I ended up thinking my computer, an almost new HP Pavillion a6554f with a 750GB hd, Intel Core 2 Quad processor q6600, with the maximum memory capacityu,was not good for Windows 7. After all I have clean reinstalled Windows 2 times already and I ran one for repair. So I got a brand new HP Pavillion e9230f with The Works, and guess what.... I've been using it 5 days and I started having problems again. This one came with Win 7 already installed. Win Explorer stops responding all the time. When I try to go to the task manager, the cursor moves, but I can click anywhere on the page and nothing happens. The task manager won't appear, I can't log off, I can't shut down. I have to press escape to get out. And now, I apparently have to stop using Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 because as soon as I install it, it stops responding and I have to force the computer to shut down because nothing will respond. I can go to the task manager window (the blue one), but what I said above happens. So I uninstall Kaspersky and then things work, but I have no protection. Is it Windows 7? Is it worst than everything before it? I actually miss Vista! I never had these problems and it's cost me a fortune already with buying updated versions of every program I have! I have spent three weeks already trying to deal with it in 3 different computers... I had already replaced another computer and got one with W7 preinstalled (that one is working so far, though it's only used to surf the web and write emails and documents)

Can somebody tell me if there is something I can do short of trying to sell the machine and save up to buy a Mac, after being a PC lover and defender for 15 years!

 

[steve6]

I can virtually assure you that it's not the computer. If Win 7 runs fine on my emachine, for which I paid $247 plus tax, it will run on that HP. From your last post, I suspect Kaspersky (which I tried and found to be the most gruesomely complex thing I had seen in a long time). Nuke Kaspersky. Make sure it is really nuked; go to the site and check documents for how to uninstall (with Norton, for instance, add/remove doesn't do the job, there's a special tool).

Unplug from the Internet and get rid of Kaspersky. Then turn on the windows firewall if it's not on, go online again and download Microsoft's free security program. It's lightweight and has gotten lots of praise. And it's free.

 

[Ryanrpv77]

I've experienced the same type of slowdown Symptoms with XP a while back on more than one occassion. Whenever the OS tries to access the Hard drive the machine slows down to super slowmo speed and the CPU meter shoots to 100% for a good 15 seconds and then drops agin. I fixed this by adjusting the DMA settings on the Harddrive, or rather a program did it for me when I installed DVD Fab Decrypter it told me my DMA settings are incorrect and it could cause performance issues. The installer automatically changed the settings and when i rebooted my problem was solved....

Maybe u wanna look into the DMA settings of ur HD.

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