Background process affecting laptop... help needed

[Bubbs]

Evening all,

Just hoping for a little help. Computer started acting up. When starting up it acts like it's working on some process in the background which affects typing by missing letters.

It also affects the mouse, where it moves normally then stammers then continues to move.

Around 5mins after start up the problem disappears and all goes back to normal... it's doing my head in. The task manager shows normal CPU usage, no processes are hogging power. The laptop has had a fresh install of Win7 from totally formatted drive so not much actually on the system.

Laptop is Asus N55s with i5-2410M @2.3 ghz with 8gb ram so power isn't an issue.

I'm thinking this is a hardware issue, hard drive failing? But not clued up enough to know for certain.

Anyone able to help me trouble shoot?

Thanks.

Bubbs
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[UncleFester]

Disable Superfetch in system services, also check what the indexing service is actually indexing.

may also be worth checking win updates are up to date and that it 's not trying to download Win10 in the background ...

Only other things from memory, DotNet optimisation stuff post service pack install and / or maybe the built in Windows security thing scanning away in the background.

Failing that - run Malwarebytes through it.
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2017 Z1000SX

[Bubbs]

disabling super fetch seems to have fixed it... what is that for?
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[CaNsA]

Superfetch is Indexing.

Windows thinks its a good idea to keep an updated list of the location of all files on the hard drive.

[andym]

What about running msconfig and Disable All in the Startup tab.... everything just loves getting in on that startup

[CaNsA]

[Loui5D]

[CaNsA]

[andym]

[Bubbs]

spoke too soon, the stutter is back
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[UncleFester]

How much system memory do you have?

If it's > 8gb you can try turning off the pagefile.

Also check that update cleanups aren't still running or that it isn't trying to download Windows10 in the background.

MS spyware scanner / cleaner thing can be a pig whilst it runs.
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[linuxyeti]

Replace windows with Linux
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[sickpup]

[Bubbs]

[panrider_uk]

[Bubbs]

Found the cause = battery has died and it was causing issues with performance. Removed it and voila

/thread
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