All of a sudden overall lag in my laptop

[Hemendu Roy]

I have an HP laptop that is exactly a year old. Everything was fine until about 4 days ago. Now my PC is lagging in general, folders take more time to open, right clicking takes A HELL OF A LONG TIME :O . DOTA 2, a game which Ii regularly play has begun lagging too (like many other games). My ingame ping was 44ms and my packet loss is 0% so I assume its not due to network issues. Here is my DxDiag :

(Also if this isn't the right section (or even website) for such a thing then please direct me to the correct place.)

DxDiag report :- Click here

 

[mickypheonix]

Hi Hemendu Roy
Have you tried doing a system restore to before this happened 4 days ago to see if that fixes your problem

 

[Hemendu Roy]

Hi Hemendu Roy
Have you tried doing a system restore to before this happened 4 days ago to see if that fixes your problem

I'll try that and post back but I haven't changed any settings / installed new apps etc :\

edit : I just saw (in the system restore window) that a "critical update" had been done 4 days ago. Hope a restore fixes it...

 

[Ali Mujtaba]

Hi All,

I bought a HP laptop that came with Windows 8.1 Its specs were
core i7
16gb Ram
4gb Nvidia Graphics Card 850m
1tb HDD

When I started laptop I noticed 1 dead Pixel ( totally Unrelated to the problem, but part of the story ). I thought Oh Well, Will get it replaced in warranty. I started using it and found windows 8.1 to be amazingly fast. I used it for a day since it was Saturday and I had to get it replaced on monday.

after 12 Hours of usage I Updated everything as I heard that Windows 8.1 Needs latest WLan drivers and so On ..
After Installing Steam Games ( Dota 2 ) .. I started playing it in High Graphics .. No problems.
Next Day ( sunday ) I started my laptop and felt it was Slower, Lagging .. My Dota 2 Game was Stuttering ... I didn't know what to do.
Being a IT Guy myself, I tried every thing from de-fragmentation to disabling everything on start up, Yet my Windows was acting like a snail. Opened my task manager and noticed that My DISK was being used 100% ( When Computer Started ) and Relaxed to 10% after 1-2 Minutes. Each time I opened any program it would reach 100% and stick there for a while .. I couldn't Multi-task .. I couldn't believe it was hardware failure as Laptop was brand new albeit the Dead Pixel. I search through Forums and Did all the maintenance and optimization tricks I could find to no use.

I got the laptop replaced and thought that It was a faulty piece .. Got another one same specs .. Now It was all fine. After 1 week, It started to do the same problem .. I was horrified that it was again some Hardware failure such has HDD failing But I was not willing to send it to Warranty company as I had Work and warranty would take 15 days.

I again did all the stuff that was recommended and It didn't work.
Then I noticed that in my Task manager, My processor was using 0.75 Ghz speed ( FIXED ) whatever I did, It didn't bulge. ( I was using High Performance ) .. I noticed previously that Whenever I changed power plan processor speed Increases or decreases depending on the power plan. But it wasn't bulging from that fixed speed.

Than I thought That's the PROBLEM .. somehow my processor isn't doing what it supposed to do ...
What I did was Remove the Laptop Charger and restarted my PC .. checked my power cord if it's fit in tight with the adapter .. and Voila .. Everything got back to normal.

I couldn't find any info on this problem online and thought to share it incase anyone faces similar problem. I haven't faced it again to check whether Shutdown helped or Unplugging Charger and connecting it again did. Because I did Both.

I know this for a fact that Restarting didn't help