Hi guys,

This is probably the fourth-fifth time, I'm posting a new thread, each time, a problem caused by Vista.
To tell you the truth, I'm REALLY starting to get sick of it. No idea why someone has to waste more than a day on customizing the OS just for it to work properly.
I have a Lenovo N100 system, came with 1GB, and after a long time of suffering, finally upgraded to 2GB. It really felt like the speed and the OS and performance are performing quicker and better, but this problem keeps returning, and it's SO annoying:

In the middle of watching a video (not a really high resolution, your usual 350MB DivX file of 40 minute shows), or even listening to music, or none - just surfing the web, the computer starts lagging. I get the annoying circling blue thingy, which lags, starts stuttering - this goes on for about 20-30 seconds, and then computer returns to normal, more or less.
This happens whether computer was just booted, or after 20 hours of activity.
The only things that are running at the time are hardly uTorrent (not many downloads, mostly just one), messenger, Fireforx, AVG, and Diskeeper in the background.

Needless to say, the same phenomena occurred with 1GB of RAM, as with 2GB of RAM.

Any ideas what could cause the problem?

I would try turning off Diskeeper.

Mark

Which will eventually cause a fragmentation problem...
It didn't happen 3-4 months ago...Why would it start doing that?

Diskeeper may or may not be the problem. It's caused problems for me in the past. I'm not saying to disable it completely, just in situations where you're having problems, then you can turn it back on.

Mark

Well, perhaps it is Diskeeper - not saying it isn't...
Any recommendations on better programs that won't cause such problems?

Any program that automatically defrags while the computer is in use can cause problems. For automatic defragging I think Diskeeper is the best program.

Why don't you just recreate the problem while Diskeeper is turned off to see if it is the problem?

Mark

Will try...Will update soon.

Well, read in some post that it might have to do something with the Audio drivers. Updated those again, and also scheduled Diskeeper to run once a week on Saturday early in the morning.
We'll see what happens during the next day, will report back.

Well, bad news. Didn't take long, happened again.

And this time Diskeeper is idle, sound drivers were updated, though no media was on , besides firefox and MSN messenger nothing was on either.

Any other suggestions?

It could be the program you are using to play the video files, here is an interesting article

http://www.pronetworks.org/index.php/content/post/how_a_mac_mini_can_beat_a_vista_behemoth/