Mouse "hangs"

[Guest]

I recently bought a Toshiba A75-S209 Laptop. I have been extremely happen
with it so far. One thing kind of bothers me. Sometimes the mouse "hangs"
for a second or two, sometimes the entire system just stops for a second or
two. I have done a lot of cleaning of "bloatware" trials and the such. I
have also removed almost everything from starting up in the regristry and
startup file. I have not, however, removed any of the Toshiba utilities such
as the Toshiba Power Utility, Console, ConfigFree, etc. Should I remove
these anyway and let Windows take care of power settings, etc? Also are
there any utilities that I should run to find what may be "hanging" the
system up for those couple of seconds? I would appreciate any ideas or
utilities. Thanks in advance!

 

[Rock]

I recently bought a Toshiba A75-S209 Laptop. I have been extremely happen
with it so far. One thing kind of bothers me. Sometimes the mouse "hangs"
for a second or two, sometimes the entire system just stops for a second or
two. I have done a lot of cleaning of "bloatware" trials and the such. I
have also removed almost everything from starting up in the regristry and
startup file. I have not, however, removed any of the Toshiba utilities such
as the Toshiba Power Utility, Console, ConfigFree, etc. Should I remove
these anyway and let Windows take care of power settings, etc? Also are
there any utilities that I should run to find what may be "hanging" the
system up for those couple of seconds? I would appreciate any ideas or
utilities. Thanks in advance!

One thing to check is whether the mouse and video driver are competing.
Right click on a blank area of the desktop, choose Properties,
Settings tab, Advanced button, Troubleshoot tab. Decrease the hardware
acceleration one notch. See if that helps. If not try to decrease it
more. One might do it. If it takes more than one then update the
drivers for the display adapter.

 

[MGGP]

One thing that might cause this symptom is a program that
is consuming a lot of CPU cycles. Sometimes malware or
spyware will do this.

Try this: Press the Ctrl-Alt-Del keys simultaneously.
This will bring up Task Manager. Click on the Processes
tab, then press the CPU button twice. This will show
programs in the order of CPU use, with the highest-use
programs at the top. The System Idle Process is almost
always the one at the top most of the time. Any other
program that consistently uses more than 15% of the CPU
while no application programs are open is suspect. Search
for the program names (if there are any using more than
15%) in Google and see if you can find out what they are,
and proceed accordingly.

If you're not already using Adaware SE and SpyBot 1.3, you
should download these two FREE anti-spyware programs and
run them regularly. Here are the links:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/


Good Luck !