mysterious typing lag?

Question

Lately, when I have been typing on my laptop, a strange lag occasionally occurs. The words will stop appearing on the screen, but after about a 20 second pause, all that I had been typing will show up. This happens in Word, on AIM, and other programs so I don't think it is a software program. Any ideas what could be causing this?

Answer 1

2 possible, too many programs runing together, and it slow down your computer and display; or virus or warm programs.

try to do this: START > RUN, type "msconfig" and ENTER, choose "diagnose startup", then click "ok". it will shows need restart. accept it. restart your computer.

after the system restart, try the typing, if that's ok, that's means you were possible one, if not, you were possible two, you need some virus killer! Kabasky is very nice, and aol released a free package of it.

good luck.

Answer 2

Your computer may be running too many things at once, and the lag is just because it takes a lot of time for your hardware to handle everything that you're running. I'd suggest running spyware detection programs like spybot to clean out spyware, then turn off some of the programs you don't really need running 24/7 like quicktime (which automatically places itself on your icon tray sometimes).

Answer 3

The best way is to download Ccleaner here http://bitly.com/UrALrK

Or you can go on Windows operating system locate the command prompt and go there to do the following:
Create a Recovery file of system and date it today.

Then begin by;
delete the 'Temp' folders..they have hidden subfolders so you need to set the attributes in order to bypass this. For each subfolder delete all cookies and rubbish left behnd after install-uninstalled programs. Do a 'dir' command to check your progress. Make sure the 'Temp' file is empty.

goto c:\windows\prefetch and delete everything in there..no exceptions

goto c:\windows folder and delete all the '$' files that have been installed by updates. They can all be succesfully deleted and just take up disk space.

Locate the Internet Temporary Files..Check to see how high the saving level is..some have it set at 30 days..but that stores faaaar tooo much data..though it slows down the system overal. Keep this to a minimum..suggest 2 or 5 at most.

Delete all 'cookies' all those you don't need.

Locate the windows directory and go through the folders you know and those you don't need. Check this once a week at least. Some programs will install under XP as NT and older systems where there is no check of systems weight.

Check to see that system files have not changed since last booting. Things like .ini files or .bat are important items.


Check for 'Hidden Directories' all over the disk...do this at the command prompt:

dir *.* /ah wil show these hidden directories

Check the 'dir' command for all parameters

Answer 4

your computer has delayed reaction. my friends say i have that but whatever.