I am running a relativley new computer (purchased about a year ago) on WIndows XP Home Edition. The system has a 2.8 GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM. It's not the best system on the market, but definetley a solid computer. The weird thing is, sometimes it starts lagging. To the point where it lags when I'm playing Solitare! The baffling part is, I am almost always not running more than one program at a time when it does it, so I don't think it's an issue with RAM. My system can be completey "idling" (no applications running, I'm at the Desktop) and it will still be laggy when I try to open a folder, even. As part of an investigation as to why a perfectly good system would spontaneously transform into a piece of cr@p, I have looked at the Task Manager's Processes tab and found that when "idling" my system uses between 0 and 4% of CPU usage. When it runs badly, it cycles between 4 and 8%. I'm tired of having to re-start my computer when I want to do something like play Solitare. Help please!
2006-06-26
06:10:13
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