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Actually, I stayed well away from the "services" tab in msconfig, since messing with that stuff can lead to problems that range from irritating (accidentally shutting off the sound card) to devastating (making it impossible to use the computer). I just turned off the things in the "startup" tab and got the desired effect.

That rabbit can plot all he wants. That adventurer was killed by face-stab mere hours after the rabbit encounter.

I give you: the Wrestler Vs. the Rabbit(s)!

Oh rabbits, they are naught but fodder to me and my adventurers.

Quote from: Argonnek on November 26, 2012, 10:39:30 am

Alright, I checked the resource monitor after starting up and I saw:
The Highest Active Time for the Disk is much higher than normal (reaching 80-100%) while the CPU remains within the 1-10% range.
The graphs on the right of the disk tab are chaotic and often completely full - though keep in mind I have no idea how to read these things.

thats fine, go to the disk activity and check the processes for total bytes being used. Processes don't need to eat the cpu when transferring data and im suspecting two things doing this
a: a malware
b: windows system restore snapshot
just give me the process name and ill check it out

Alright, the biggest disk hog is SASCore.exe, and it was using up to 15 million B/sec for a moment there, but it was all read and no write. Another one appears to be C:\pagefile.sys, which is all write and no read.

How long's it been since you defragged your hard drive? How full is it?

After my last post, I checked the defragger and had it analyze the disk. 0% fragmentation. I also have over 150 GB of empty space available.

Edit: After running the scan with SuperAntiSpyware, I notice that my computer is starting up a bit faster. Maybe it knows I'm on to it...

I should have mentioned this earlier: This lag only goes on for a while after startup. After a while, it stops being laggy and functions normally.

Also, I did a scan with (the trial version of) Superantispyware and it killed a trojan that  I never opened and several tracking cookies.

Tellemurius: I'll be sure to do that next time I reboot.

Ridiculous meaning "it took me five minutes to get to this subforum from DF Fortress Discussion and ten more to get this message typed through all the lag." I know it's not a browser issue because I've tried closing Firefox, but to no avail. EVERYTHING moves slowly, and the "busy" light on the laptop is solid white instead of flickering. I've checked the task manager, but it claims that the CPU has only about 1-5% use, as if the thing that's slowing everything down isn't using any part of the processor. Memory isn't an issue either, since it hovers around 35% regardless of lag. So... Help?

Let me know if you need more info.

This update makes me laugh.