15-30 seconds for any action

[Guest]

I finally managed to get Vista installed on my laptop with Promise drivers
for my ATA hard drive (lots of people were having trouble with this).

Installation went smooth and everything but when I booted into Vista
everything was EXTREMELY laggy.

I thought it would take a bit being the first time I booted, so I waited.
It found my network and when I clicked the Ok button my computer didnt do
anything for about 30 seconds. When i tried to minimize the control panel it
lagged for about 30 seconds as well. The mouse moved fine but other that
that it seemed everything else only refreshed once every 15 to 30 seconds. I
took a couple minutes disabling Aero and used the Windows Classic view and it
still lagged. I hard-reset my computer and booted into safe mode and the lag
went away.

Are there any specific setting or hardware problems that may have caused
this? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 on my laptop and a gig of RAM.

-Will

 

[Mark D. VandenBeg]

Part of the "lag" may be the indexing. let it sit running overnight and
simmer. You could also turn off the indexing but then you lose one of the
more functional new features.

 

[Guest]

I finally managed to get Vista installed on my laptop with Promise drivers
for my ATA hard drive (lots of people were having trouble with this).

Installation went smooth and everything but when I booted into Vista
everything was EXTREMELY laggy.

I thought it would take a bit being the first time I booted, so I waited.
It found my network and when I clicked the Ok button my computer didnt do
anything for about 30 seconds. When i tried to minimize the control panel it
lagged for about 30 seconds as well. The mouse moved fine but other that
that it seemed everything else only refreshed once every 15 to 30 seconds. I
took a couple minutes disabling Aero and used the Windows Classic view and it
still lagged. I hard-reset my computer and booted into safe mode and the lag
went away.

Are there any specific setting or hardware problems that may have caused
this? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 on my laptop and a gig of RAM.

-Will

A good tool is the Task Manager (press Ctrl + Alt + Del and choose Task
Manager), in it you can see all the running processes and how much
memory/CPU they are eating. I've always got it running minimized to the
system tray, whenever things starts to feel sluggish I check the CPU-
utilization and which process(es) are using most of the CPU.

Normally high CPU will not make the system slow, just that specific
application, but if the kernel time is high also (above 10%) the system
will be slow. Another source of sluggishness is high disk-activity (no
good meeter exist that I'm aware of, but one can try to listen), if more
than one application needs to real/write a lot to disk they will be
slow. Disk-activity unfortunately also creates high kernel-times and
thus makes the whole system slow. The third thing that can slow down a
system is when the memory-usage exceed the available RAM, then the
system will start to page out which leads to disk-activity, plus that
you'll have to wait for applications to be paged in before they can be used.

 

[Guest]

I will try to let sit overnight and see what happens. I'll also check the
Task Manager and see if there is anything in particular that is taking up a
lot of resources.

 

[deebs]

It sounds like CPU usage is hitting 100% *ctrl+alt+del* to find Task
Manager.

It probably is indexing - I wish this was defaulted to "Off" with an
option to turn it "On" when the user wished to leave it to run though
indexing processes

 

[marlonfl]

I finally managed to get Vista installed on my laptop with
Promise drivers
for my ATA hard drive (lots of people were having trouble with
this).

Installation went smooth and everything but when I booted into
Vista
everything was EXTREMELY laggy.

I thought it would take a bit being the first time I booted,
so I waited.
It found my network and when I clicked the Ok button my
computer didnt do
anything for about 30 seconds. When i tried to minimize the
control panel it
lagged for about 30 seconds as well. The mouse moved fine but
other that
that it seemed everything else only refreshed once every 15 to
30 seconds. I
took a couple minutes disabling Aero and used the Windows
Classic view and it
still lagged. I hard-reset my computer and booted into safe
mode and the lag
went away.

Are there any specific setting or hardware problems that may
have caused
this? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 on my laptop and a
gig of RAM.

-Will

I had the same problem after installing the nVidia drivers from
Windows Update. I noticed that even having a 32M card (nVidia FX
5200), I was getting aero glass. So I uninstalled the graphics drivers
and it’s now working. In my case, since I have 32M for the graphics I
would not get the areo glass. Now Vista works, but my graphihcs are
weak.

 

[Guest]

It sounds like CPU usage is hitting 100% *ctrl+alt+del* to find Task
Manager.

It probably is indexing - I wish this was defaulted to "Off" with an
option to turn it "On" when the user wished to leave it to run though
indexing processes

Or at least some dialog at first startup telling the user that it was
running.

 

[Guest]

hello all. i have a similar problem. my mouse moves fine, however every
click i do and every key i press takes about 15 - 45seconds before it shows
up on my screen. my cpu runs about 100% early on, but goes down to 0% - 50%
when i run applications. these are the specs of my computer:

amd fx 55
4gb ram
74gb wd raptor x2 (raid 0)
ati x1800 crossfire (only one card in, as there are issues with crossfire atm)
sb xi-fi xtrememusic

all drivers are up-to-date per manufactures of respective hardware. i
believe my system should be able to handle it. i have vista ultimate 64-bit
loaded.

any suggestions as to what i should/might be able to do? i have several
errors, all of which are related to poor performance, but no answers on
corrected them from microsoft when i click on the 'help' link.

thanks,