- Jan 28, 2013
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Hi everyone.
I bought a Dell M4700 running Windows7 x64 about 3 years ago with:
NVIDIA K2000M
Intel Core i7-3840QM CPU @ 2.80GHz
SSD 128gb (OS)
750GB HD (storage)
...oh but does something about it bug the hell out of me.
In the beginning, it was great... everything ran smoothly. I updated windows... and everything started... well, its hard to describe, but everything in windows felt a little more 'jerky'. windows didn't open up smoothly, folders didn't close smoothly... new tabs didn't open smoothly in firefox, etc.
I immediately uninstalled all the windows updates. the jerkyness persisted.
I finally got brave and re-installed windows7 from scratch. Once it booted up into windows, everything was fine. Once i started adding software... the jerkiness came back. I hadn't even done one windows update!
I've tried disabling all services and all start-up items. It does something, but not alot. I'm in the process of uninstalling and disability everything that isn't a necessity.... but, then, sometimes, I'll have everything running and it works perfectly. So frustrating.
The only consistent thing is that combofix always gets it to run smoothly. I run combofix, its like a breath of fresh air comes back.... and then i open up a few programs, and the jerkiness comes back little by little.
And its right when combofix starts up... its not a virus. I see that combofix clears out the 'temp' folder first... maybe thats it?
Sometimes installing a new program, or driver causes it to run smoothly.... and then it goes back to jerkiness.
Also, i find that if i run a 'clear ram' program, or make a little shortcut with this command line:
%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
.. that also frees up the jerkiness... but again, it always goes back to jerkiness within a minute or two.
Whats wrong with my laptop?
I bought a Dell M4700 running Windows7 x64 about 3 years ago with:
NVIDIA K2000M
Intel Core i7-3840QM CPU @ 2.80GHz
SSD 128gb (OS)
750GB HD (storage)
...oh but does something about it bug the hell out of me.
In the beginning, it was great... everything ran smoothly. I updated windows... and everything started... well, its hard to describe, but everything in windows felt a little more 'jerky'. windows didn't open up smoothly, folders didn't close smoothly... new tabs didn't open smoothly in firefox, etc.
I immediately uninstalled all the windows updates. the jerkyness persisted.
I finally got brave and re-installed windows7 from scratch. Once it booted up into windows, everything was fine. Once i started adding software... the jerkiness came back. I hadn't even done one windows update!
I've tried disabling all services and all start-up items. It does something, but not alot. I'm in the process of uninstalling and disability everything that isn't a necessity.... but, then, sometimes, I'll have everything running and it works perfectly. So frustrating.
The only consistent thing is that combofix always gets it to run smoothly. I run combofix, its like a breath of fresh air comes back.... and then i open up a few programs, and the jerkiness comes back little by little.
And its right when combofix starts up... its not a virus. I see that combofix clears out the 'temp' folder first... maybe thats it?
Sometimes installing a new program, or driver causes it to run smoothly.... and then it goes back to jerkiness.
Also, i find that if i run a 'clear ram' program, or make a little shortcut with this command line:
%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
.. that also frees up the jerkiness... but again, it always goes back to jerkiness within a minute or two.
Whats wrong with my laptop?
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