Gaming pc slow and laggy

[williaw3]

Hi i have a very anoying problem ever sinse i bought my pc it has been realy slow and laggy when i do stuff like browsing and going trogh my files it freezes and it says that its not reponding but i can play games bf3 on ultra watch dogs on normal assassins creed everything works but i cant watch youtube vidios its so freaking anoying it takes ages to rightclick on things and i have no clue what it is
My specs:
intel core i5 3330
sapphire readon HD 7850 1gb
8 gb ram
please help me

 

[cowboydude99]

How many sticks of RAM?

 

[williaw3]

I have 2 sticks with 4gb each

 

[cowboydude99]

Did you buy them in a kit or separately?

How old is your hard drive?

 

[williaw3]

I bought my pc from a site where you just pick the parts you want in it and then they assemble it so i havent done anything since then. And its exactly one year old now

 

[cowboydude99]

Are you on Windows 8 or 8.1?

 

[cowboydude99]

1. When you right-click, what is listed? Maybe one of those is causing the issue...?
2. When browsing the internet you said it is slow. Are you using WIFI or Ethernet cable?
3. What happens when you try to watch youtube?

 

[williaw3]

I have windows 7 and its not the internet thats causing the problem i have 100mb/s its my pc sometimes there is shockwave flash that stopps working sometimes its chrome but its so odd because i can play high performing games without any issues but when i try to go through my files its extremely slow and it stops responding and stuff could it be my power supply (500w)

 

[cowboydude99]

What is the exact model PSU? What is the CPU and GPU?

Just right-click on the desktop. What is listed?

It could be a 3rd party context menu causing that...

Look through the programs and features (in control panel). Remove programs that aren't 'trustworthy' and that are not required for the system.

Things like toolbars, coupon printers, and the like.

You can boot to safe mode to find out if you still have the same problems. If you do not, it is probably a 3rd party piece of software causing the problems.

 

[williaw3]

When i right click: the only thing that should not be there is AMD Catalyst control center
My PSU: silver power sp-ss500 500w
My CPU: Intel core i5-3330 3.00 GHZ
My GPU: sapphire readon HD 7850 1gb
i got no toolbars nothing no viruses.
oh and my operating system is on a ssd

 

[cowboydude99]

Okay then the only thing left to do is boot into safe mode and try the things you're having problems with.

This will rule out other things.

 

[williaw3]

okay but when i start in safe mode and then restart without the safe mode will it be as usual or will there be changes

 

[cowboydude99]

No, nothing will change, but it will help lead you in the direction you need.

Safe Mode doesn't load everything... but it loads enough to work. This is temporary.

Let me know how Safe Mode works with the problems you're having.

Try youtube and browsing the internet and also right-clicking.

 

[williaw3]

Im in fail safe now its 10 times better what should i do i have a recovery disk for windows do you recommend to re install windows

 

[smeezekitty]

What is your RAM and CPU usage?

What about your CPU temperature?

Its also possible you might be having hard disk problems

 

[williaw3]

what do you mean with hard disk problems??

 

[smeezekitty]

Either filesystem errors or a failing disk

 

[williaw3]

i have a 1tb hdd that has 500gb of games on it could it be a problem

 

[cowboydude99]

It could be a HDD problem. But if it doesn't happen in safe mode then you can rule that out.

For safe measure download a HDD test tool. Or try running chkdsk /f

Games are running fine though. It is a few select things that aren't working.

 

[sora]

IDT Audio drivers may be causing the problem. Try installing older versions of the drivers and responding what happened.