Mouse pointer freezes a few secs, often.

[andrewranta]

Hi all.

Wonder if anyone could offer some much needed help and advice. The mouse pointer on my PC seems to freeze for a few seconds, as if the PC is laboring. Usually, if im on Excel etc, the keyboard still works fine. Often its when I do a drag and drop on a large area of excel (if the mouse is under use) that I get the problem....but its far from exclusively on this kind of work. ..it can happen all the time.

I note on another thread people have asked to see if there are red/yellow warnings on event log and there seems to be a LOT.

If it helps I have a few pictures here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mrsweet1991]

In task manager and in the performance tab how is your CPU, RAM hard drive and keep an eye on it when you do a task? the event log mentions something about insufficient memory or hard drive space.

 

[andrewranta]

I checked the HD space, that seems fine with 193Gig spare.

However, I think you may be on to something regards Task Manager / Performance. It seems to be idling on around CPU Usage 50% most of the time, shooting up to 70% when I use Excel and spiking up higher at 90%+ at times....this coincides with the Desktop making the laboured noise I notice. Its just done it again with no special programme open up to 100% briefly then back down to 50%.

Memory shows 1.30gb and dosnt really move...seems ok?

I think the problem quite possibly does lay with the CPU usage. any suggestions on sorting that?

Thanks for your time.

 

[mrsweet1991]

Yes, in the processes tab it will show you what programs are running and how much CPU power they are consuming. Take a look for anything that's using a lot of CPU power. There could well be a programme running in the background that's eating up a lot of your CPU. Also could you post the specifications of your computer, RAM, CPU and so forth.

 

[andrewranta]

Sure, I realised right afterwards you would need that and went looking ;]

I noticed this...maybe the cuplrit?

http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/ad80/vayasen/Pcfix_zps2f399f11.jpg


Just checked and my Ram and processor in System, show as 'not available'?

 

[mrsweet1991]

ok it's related to splashtop (a remote desktop for android I think) unless you're using it kill it off and also disable it from starting when windows does. see if your CPU frees up a bit afterwards.

 

[mrsweet1991]

If you're not sure how to disable it from starting automatically just let me know and I'll give you instructions.

 

[andrewranta]

I stopped the process and immediately the cpu usage dropped from 50% (and higher when something was working) down to 5-10% or so.....a huge change. The PC is also much quieter now. Thanks a lot for that. Hopefully the freezing will stop also with that little fix, ill monitor it today!!


I think I can sort the issue of booting at startup (msconfig)?

Thanks so much for your help.

 

[mrsweet1991]

Spot on about MSconfig, problem should definitely be sorted now. If it worked please choose as best answer

 

[andrewranta]

Thanks again.

Will do.

Ill test it this afternoon (although im sure its sorted) and do it later.

 

[mrsweet1991]

hey sorry to butt in but can someone help me with my question i need to know whats better vista or windows xp

Not a good idea to ask a question in someone else's question more because if someone else wants to know this they may not find the question on a Google search or something.

And in regards to Windows XP or Vista providing your computer has enough power I would recommend Windows 7 over Vista, unless a lot has changed Windows Vista is as buggy as hell and in my opinion Windows 7 was basically what Windows Vista should have been but for Microsoft it just made it look better to introduce a new OS rather than admit they F'd up. Now if you don't have a powerful system by powerful I mean less than 3GB RAM and a single core processor I'd stick with XP it's old granted but it's just so solid and fast.