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Wierd hesitation with my computer - any suggestions?

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Stoerm

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I've got a wierd hesitancy with my PC. It's not functionally problematic, really - but it drives me up the friggin' wall.

Once in a while it will just hang for a second or two before executing the command I've given. The oddest (and hopefully, telltale) thing is that when I'm at a menu that includes a little drop down box of folders on my computer at the top (such as a "save as..." menu) and I click on "Desktop" it pauses for up to 3 or 4 seconds sometimes.

I'm clueless as to what it might be. The hard drives check out fine with various benchmarks. When I'm playing a game, there are no performance issues (well, none that wouldn't be caused by my GF 2 MX 400). I've got an Epox 8RDA+ and 2 sticks of 256MB RAM. It's a fairly bare machine, really. There's no floppy, one CDR, 2 hard drives, one AGP vid card. No other cards.

Any ideas?
 
Are you on a network at all? When windows accesses computers on the network it will pause for a second or two.
 
Hmm... Yes, I am on a network, but the other computers on the network do not pause as noticeably as the one in question.
 
Check out your harddrive and power saving stuff.

Could be that the HD is spooling down.

When you open up a new app it needs to read from the HD, so your going to get a huge delay as the HD gets back up to speed. Probably not 3-4 seconds or anything, but it would probably feel that way.
 
That sounds logical. The benchmarks wouldn't report anything wrong either. I've never dealt with this stuff - any specific settings I should make sure are set in certain ways?

Under "Power Options" in the control panel, I've got it set to never, ever turn anything off. I don't know much about power management other than those settings.w
 
A default WinXP installation won't spin down the hard drives unless you go into standby or hibernate mode. Your hard drive may be fragmented, try running defrag overnight and see if that helps. Also, how are you doing on free space ? Windows absolutely HATES it when you get below about 10% of the drive free and everything will seem sluggish.
 
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