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Random lagging on Windows is common. My new Dell laptop often lags when opening the start menu. My previous lenovo stuttered from time to time. My HP before th
by reitanqild 9y ago
Random lagging on Windows is common.
My new Dell laptop often lags when opening the start menu. My previous lenovo stuttered from time to time. My HP before that would block for 200-700 ms every 30 seconds, causing lost keystrokes, until I uninstalled HP power manager.
I guess signature editions and Surface are better.
- alkonaut 9y agoWhen I have the start menu lag, it's because the search service isn't working. If the start menu takes 3 seconds to show that correlates 100% of the time with the search function not working either.
- reitanqild 9y agoSo just reset the search function or something then?
- alkonaut 9y agoI have googled solutions like this for months. Happy to try one more.
- reitanqild 9y agoI don't have a general solution but for older versions of windows there was latency mon or something (similar exists for Windows 10 but I have forgotten the name). This might help you identify the culprit. The way I use it is I start latencymon (or similar), Running that I'll then stop applications one by one and see if the latency spikes disappears. If that doesn't help next I'll stop services one by one. If it is software related you should find it this way - usually Windows is quite stable in itself and it is "just" a misbehaving driver.
- baq 9y agoWhat you're describing sound like a bad driver for something. I had something like this, traced it with xperf, it was an Ethernet driver. Yes, this shouldn't happen, somebody botched platform validation.
- reitanqild 9y agoThat's my experience as well. Modern Windows is mostly solid but the vendor drivers can be hilariously bad sometimes.