dragging causes cpu spike

[alan]

When I drag a window, cpu spikes to up to 100% and the left and right
borders of the window show jagged and choppy movement, sometimes with
"trails" artifacts left behind. All back to normal when movement
stops. Moving cursor over hyperlinks, like in a search results
window, causes cpu spike to up to 100%. Process explorer just shows
cpu increase for the window being dragged (yahoo messenger for
instance) and increase for the window or desktop that is under the
window (explorer or firefox for example) When i use ie7 - dragging a
window over the toolbars causes trails on the toolbar only. These
trails do not occur on ie6, but the cpu still spikes way up. I have
updated my vid card drivers, mouse drivers, monitor drivers. Specs:
emachines w3050 AMD sempron 3000+ 1.99GHz, 1.43 GB ram. I don't want
to sys recover because I have an incredibly slow dial-up (my only
option in the boondocks) and the Microsoft updates take four days to
download. (I learned how to backup these updates but it will still
take four days the first time) I have researched this problem for a
month straight, tried ALL the suggestions twice, somtimes 3 or 4
times. It is driving me slowly insane. Any advice at all will be
appreciated.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

When I drag a window, cpu spikes to up to 100% and the left and
right borders of the window show jagged and choppy movement,
sometimes with "trails" artifacts left behind. All back to normal
when movement stops. Moving cursor over hyperlinks, like in a
search results window, causes cpu spike to up to 100%. Process
explorer just shows cpu increase for the window being dragged
(yahoo messenger for instance) and increase for the window or
desktop that is under the window (explorer or firefox for example)
When i use ie7 - dragging a window over the toolbars causes trails
on the toolbar only. These trails do not occur on ie6, but the cpu
still spikes way up. I have updated my vid card drivers, mouse
drivers, monitor drivers. Specs: emachines w3050 AMD sempron 3000+
1.99GHz, 1.43 GB ram. I don't want to sys recover because I have
an incredibly slow dial-up (my only option in the boondocks) and
the Microsoft updates take four days to download. (I learned how to
backup these updates but it will still take four days the first
time) I have researched this problem for a month straight, tried
ALL the suggestions twice, somtimes 3 or 4 times. It is driving me
slowly insane. Any advice at all will be appreciated.

Do you have 'Show windows contents while dragging' checked in Display
Properties --> Appearance --> Effects?
Uncheck it.

What changed between it working as you expected and it starting to cause
issues?

 

[alan]

Do you have 'Show windows contents while dragging' checked in Display
Properties --> Appearance --> Effects?
Uncheck it.

What changed between it working as you expected and it starting to cause
issues?

I have checked and unchecked "show windows contents..." This solves
the problem with cpu spike while dragging, but does not solve the "cpu
spike when moving cursor over hyperlinks, like in search results
window. I only started monitoring the cpu usage vigilantly after ie7
showed artifacts in the toolbar while dragging a window over it.
Still, from what I have gathered from researching it a 100% cpu usage
for these activities is not normal, regaurdless of when it started. I
would say that the problem became apparent to me after a system
recovery (destructive) and install of ie7. Isn't 60% cpu max more like
normal for these operations? Maybe my cpu is just getting slow? I have
lost hope of finding a solution.