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My sound and video are stuttering on my laptop. What happened?
I have run virus check, and deleted several trojans, defragged, cleared huge amounts of disk space, ran Ccleaner and fixed registry mistakes, checked my startups, tasks and processes and deleted anything unnecessary, then defragged again. Still, it is unbearably slow to open any program/s, and my CPU Usage is lower, but everything is still slow. This makes my sound and video stutter. Btw, I am running AVG Free anti-virus, and used Cureit for malware, also Symantec. I have 1 GB of memory, and an AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology ML-34 1.79 GHz processor, with 80.1 GB hard drive capacity, and 52.3 GB free. I have also replaced the driver for the sound card and that didn't change it.
What can I do to figure out what is wrong?
I am running WinXP Media Center Edition Version 2002 SP2, not Vista. :)
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
You know, being a computer technician I have come across this problem many times.
Even though you deleted all of the viruses, its the residue that is still left that is wearing your computer out. The best case scenario for a major full recovery is to backup whatever you want to keep and re-install the operating system.
By the way, AVG will not detect everything, I recommend grabbing Norton Antivirus 2007.
- 1 decade ago
Try backing up needed files and do a system restore to a point everything was ok.
other things to try.
AVG isn't full proof. The best anti virus software is nod32. On their website you can download a 30-day free trail with all options (include deleting found programs). Might work.
If you are using windows media player, try other media players.
A complete format c and reinstallation of windows and the drivers will do the trick, if you are willing to lose 5 hours.
Edit: there was a know vista bug for something like that. Go to their website and all the updates. Including the once that you pc don't donwload automaticly. There are some updates that make vista run faster and more stable.
- 1 decade ago
MMMmmm Sounds like you are using Windows Vista home premium.
The worst ever made operating system from MS.
Actually this will get fixed if you do optional update from Microsoft. I hope you are using Compaq V3000 model.
There is one more thing to consider, the Windows vista consumes lots of CPU and Memory in a timely manner. Suddently for no reason everthing goes hight and drops to minimum. Even Yahoo messenger sometimes stops responding if you click the mail icon from the task bar after getting a new yahoo mail.
Source(s): www.camera-friendly.com - 1 decade ago
its just your laptops getting old.
it happens to all of us eventually.
ive owned 5 computers and 3 of them when they where getting old even with extra ram new graphics cards and all that evtually started showing sighns of there age.
by the way did you say avg and systamtic that might be you problem if you have a newish computer because 2 antivirus or more start conflicting with each other (i once had kaspersky avg mcafee and norten all working at once and my computter was working at snail pase)
if you need to pick one anti virus id go for one of these 3
AVG
Kaspersky
or nod32