Programs/software freezes/hangs every 5-10seconds

Jae444

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Hello I recently downloaded and installed a Game called soldier front. When got it It wouldn't let me play due to some errors. I decided just to quit the game and UN-install it. After that I went and played the game team fortress 2. As soon as I opened tf2, i redirected right back to my desktop. Tf2 doesn't close but it redirects me to my desktop every 10 seconds.

When going onto my web browser it will hang/freeze for a few seconds. The gray bar above the address bar turns into a dark grey which is when it freezes and then back to the normal gray. When i type in my browser or even here it freezes I cannot type for 2 seconds or so.

When it freezes/hangs if I click straight away the freeze/hang stops straight however comes back within 5-10 seconds. It is as if something is blocking me from doing everything for a few seconds, constantly stopping and starting.

I listed this category as Graphics and displays but honestly haven't a clue what the problem is. I have ran full scans with avast and Malwarebytes, however no luck.

Any help will be really appreciated.
 

ozmiz

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Double check how much hard drive space you have remaining.

Boot into Safe-Mode and see if you have the same experience. If yes, you may have hardware issues. If no, you may have driver, process/software related problems.

Open up Task Manager and click the processes tab and see if there is a process that is dominating your CPU usage. Note if there is a process running that looks suspicious, also check your memory usage while in TM.

Run MSCONFIG, click on startup tab and deselect everything but the essentials.

Just a few things you can start checking to try and narrow down to what the problem may be.
 

Jae444

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Thank you for your reply, there is really nothing that is dominant in my CPU usage. I ran safemode and everything was perfectly fine. I'm guessing that this isnt't a hardware problem then?
 

ozmiz

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If it runs great in safe-mode, it is doubtful you have a hardware problem.

Check each of these items as steps to try and test, and not to try and do all at one time :)

* Adequate hard-drive Space
* Use MSCONFIG to disable all non-essentials programs loading (windows key press + R, type msconfig)
* Open Device Manager and make sure nothing has a problem indicated by an '!' by it.
* Have you done any recent driver updates? if so try to revert back. OR dump the driver and reload it (already have drivers downloaded before starting)
* Try one by one updating drivers if problem persists

Check back and let us know how it goes.. and yep troubleshooting requires (a) caffeine (b) patience (c) the occasional hair-pulling
 

Jae444

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Hi again,

I have plenty of hard drive space (over 700gb)
When opening MSCONFIG I wouldn't really say I have any non-essential programs loading.
I have used windows to see if I need driver updates on my hardware but nothings coming up, however i'm guessing the windows scan isn't that reliable for finding driver updates. Also having a bit of trouble finding out what drivers I need (if any) and how to download/install them.
I have checked device manage and I do not have any errors what so ever, I made sure to check all the hardware.

Replies will be appreciated.