Recently Windows has been hanging a little after closing Firefox and/or Windows Live Mail. For example, if I close Firefox or WM (Windows Mail) and click on the Start button or anything for that matter Windows will hang maybe 2 seconds before it loads it. It didn't used to do this. I've ran anti virus/spyware programs (Which returned no real threats) and Ccleaner. I've defragmented and ran check disk too so my files should be clean and in order for quick access. I actually recently had to reinstall Windows XP (32bit) so it's a pretty fresh install. As far as I know the drivers and whatnot should be up-to-date too. As for the game, it's particulary only one as I notice lags in a certain way that never had before. It's America's Army and every so often I will get this lag that will last for a few seconds and just go away. It will make the game real sluggish but only for about 4 or so seconds but gets quite annoying as this didn't used to happen before. I've tried system restore to go back to a point where I didn't think it had been doing this but none of the restore points were available for some reason and the one it did let me restore to didn't help. I don't notice any processes running that look suspicious or that shouldn't be running. I've also noticed the past few times I boot up and while loading windows my mouse will freeze for just a second which is also not normal.
I do have my CPU, ram and video card over clocked but I know this isn't the reason for my problems since they've been like that for quite some time and I've ran Prime95 for long periods of time without problems. I did recently increase my Pagefile size in windows to 3070MB from the default...
Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing these little hangs after closing Firefox/Windows Live Mail and the reoccuring lag in the game? Because I have a feeling the two problems are connected in some way. Your advice and suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hijackthis log file:
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 7:59:16 PM, on 11/16/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16735)
Boot mode: Normal
Well it appears that this was the culprit. Since disabling it, no hang ups so far after closing out windows or programs. Haven't tested out the game yet but hopefully that was the problem.
Message edited by Vortec on 11-17-2008 at 11:08:59 PM
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