Why is my computer hesitating?

Question

For ex., when I move the cursor while online, it moves, and then it hesitates for about 5 sec., and then I'm able to move it again. And it's not just the cursor but also the browsers.

Answer 1

maybe be spyware... or malware, try getting adaware or a spyware program....or windows defender....or try defragging hard drive....might be lagging

Answer 2

It could be a number of things. If you're net connection is slow, this would explain the cursor lagging. It does the same on my PC. The CPU and hard drive are waiting for the webpage to download and often show an hourglass character or flicking pointer. If the computer has always been like this, there's not a lot you can do expect upgrade to high-speed Internet or try my other idea of adding more RAM. It may prove to be the 'kick in the pants' your PC needs to better handle your browser program's download features.

And keep in mind that some programs such as filesharing clients and malware can be huge resource hogs. You'll want to unistall these if you have an otherwise new PC but poor performance. I could run a Pentium II 350Mhz with 256MB RAM satisfactorily online, but I didn't have a lot of addditional software installed other than antivirus and firewall. While you're at it, run the antivirus to find any malware that may be hogging space on your system and try other programs such as Adaware.

Answer 3

Could also be background applications running taking up to much processor time

press Ctrl+Alr+Del,

in Vista click "Start Task Manager",
click "Show processes from all users" at the bottom
then click "Continue" when the pop up appears

in XP task manager will open automatically

click on the "Processes" tab

click the heading for "CPU" to sort from High to Low,
see if there is anything running with more than 10,

If there are, then a program is running in the background, you should look into getting anti spyware/mailware/virus software. Avast is good and it's free, available at www.avast.com and works on 64bit systems as well.

Answer 4

This would be a memory issue.
-Spyware/Malware could be taking up most of your memory.
-You could need to upgrade your RAM memory.

Here are two free adaware/spyware/virus scan/removal programs: AdAware (http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php) and Spybot Search & Destroy (http://spybot.com/)

Memory is cheap from Newegg.com.
First, right-click on your "MyComputer" Icon and click Properties to check how much memory your computer has.
It should have at least 512MB for Windows XP and at least 2GB for Windows Vista.
Make sure and check what type of memory you have and how many free DIMMs (memory slots) you have.

Answer 5

These links will give you some killer help with these problems

Answer 6

try firefox