Computer question...

[LordKathen]

I have an E-Machine with an Athlon 1.6 ghertz processor, 384 megs ram, and a 40 gig (defraged recently) hard drive.
My problem is that while I am typing this right now, the text on the screen that I am typing has to catch up. I hope I am explaining this well enough. I will be typing along and nothing will be showing up, then all the sudden the whole sentence is there. Or when I need to back space, the cusor wont move untill I let off the button, and its way back there, ya know? Another thing is, If I need to go back to the middle of the paragragh and start typing, sometimes it will advance the text after it, sometimes it will type over it. This does'nt happen all the time. Its totaly intermitant and annoying. I should have plenty of resources, and my temp. internet folder and history folder are empty. Any ideas why this is happening?

Edit: BTW, I have a cable connection and this happens on other forums as well.

[ 02-07-2004, 07:16 AM: Message edited by: LordKathen ]

[wellard]

I am by NO means an expert LK, but when things start to bog down i do a real clean up. kill all my cookies and stored pages on the internet options list. (remember your passwords first)Spybot ,Adaware, norton AV. Then if still slow check playing a few games it may be your video card or something. anyways try out what i suggested it cant make it worse

[andrewas]

Go with wellards suggestion. SpybotSD, adaware, anti-virus.

[LordKathen]

Well, I delete all my internet folders including cookies, most everyday. Also, have a 32 meg gforce2 along with the 384 megs of ram. I cant believe that I can play games like BG2, but it cant keep up with typing. Weird.

[ 02-07-2004, 07:27 AM: Message edited by: LordKathen ]

[LordKathen]

What do you guys mean? I need to make sure those progs. are not on my com.?

[wellard]

No I mean use them, I will post the links later if you want but they are great at getting crap of your computer.

Basicaly they get rid of spyware on your computer which unkown to you is (1) invading your privacy (2) slowing your proccesor down

A mate of mine 6 month ago tried spybot and it found and killed over 300 spyware programmes on his computer

[wellard]

While your computer is busy sending loads of stuff from your computer to the net behind your back it slows it down. So much so i'm guesing thats why you can not type at normal speeds. Go to google and search for and download spybot or adaware. They are easy to use and quick to down load. Best of all they are free

[LordKathen]

Sounds great! Thank you! Goodnite, I need to get to bed. Thanks for the help.

[RoSs_bg2_rox]

also about the middle of the paragraph thing. This happens because of the "insert" button. If the text starts to type over then just push Insert and this will stop. You didnt happen to be running a virus scanner when the typing thing happened did you? That can cause that sorta thing to happen

[Bungleau]

LK,

If it suddenly stops while you're typing, odds are that the CPU itself is now working on something else, and needs to get caught up.

The question is.... what is it working on?

Take a look at all the programs in Task Manager and see what extraneous stuff there is. Post a listing here if you want, or do some googling on the programs. For example, there's one on my system called "stimon". Turned out it's a still image monitor for my scanner, but when it first showed up, I was nervous...

Spybot and Ad Aware will help get rid of many spyware and adware programs. Other stuff can still sneak in, though... always be skeptical.

Some good stuff can be in there as well. Things like virus scanners, software update programs, defrag, and more can be scheduled to run, and will do so at that time.

It could also be Windows expanding your swap file (if needed). That's why I prefer to have a fixed size swap file (aka virtual memory) -- no problems with Windows trying to help me.

Next time it happens, I'd check to see what else is running. That will be your biggest indicator of what you can do to get rid of it.