Computer is dragging and freezing while playing cd game

[Scarter]

HELP! Have tried everything obvious ....

While playing computer games only ... the computer starts
dragging and moving in slow motion for a few seconds ...
15 or 20 seconds, I would guess .... then resumes normal
playing again.

First thought it might be CD ROM ... but this happens when
a game is installed on the computer as well. Then we
thought it might be a virtual memory (paging file)
problem, received advice on how to check that and
everything seems to be okay there.

Have even done a complete restore back to the original
factory settings and that didn't even work.

Have dumped all kinds of files that we thought might be
taking up too much space ... but even with a stripped
computer running no additional programs in the
background ... we still have the same problem.

Any advice is appreciated!

Stac

[Quaoar]

Scarter wrote:
> HELP! Have tried everything obvious ....
>
> While playing computer games only ... the computer starts
> dragging and moving in slow motion for a few seconds ...
> 15 or 20 seconds, I would guess .... then resumes normal
> playing again.
>
> First thought it might be CD ROM ... but this happens when
> a game is installed on the computer as well. Then we
> thought it might be a virtual memory (paging file)
> problem, received advice on how to check that and
> everything seems to be okay there.
>
> Have even done a complete restore back to the original
> factory settings and that didn't even work.
>
> Have dumped all kinds of files that we thought might be
> taking up too much space ... but even with a stripped
> computer running no additional programs in the
> background ... we still have the same problem.
>
> Any advice is appreciated!
>
> Stac

When this type of thing happens, the first suspects are maintenance:
Disk Cleanup first, Defragment second.

Q

[NEWS]

and you could also do a windows files scan from start/run then type sfc
/scannow with your xp CD in the drive


"Quaoar" > wrote in message
...
> Scarter wrote:
> > HELP! Have tried everything obvious ....
> >
> > While playing computer games only ... the computer starts
> > dragging and moving in slow motion for a few seconds ...
> > 15 or 20 seconds, I would guess .... then resumes normal
> > playing again.
> >
> > First thought it might be CD ROM ... but this happens when
> > a game is installed on the computer as well. Then we
> > thought it might be a virtual memory (paging file)
> > problem, received advice on how to check that and
> > everything seems to be okay there.
> >
> > Have even done a complete restore back to the original
> > factory settings and that didn't even work.
> >
> > Have dumped all kinds of files that we thought might be
> > taking up too much space ... but even with a stripped
> > computer running no additional programs in the
> > background ... we still have the same problem.
> >
> > Any advice is appreciated!
> >
> > Stac
>
> When this type of thing happens, the first suspects are maintenance:
> Disk Cleanup first, Defragment second.
>
> Q
>
>

It's probably a service running in the background like an antivirus program
scheduled etc.

"Scarter" > wrote in message
...
> HELP! Have tried everything obvious ....
>
> While playing computer games only ... the computer starts
> dragging and moving in slow motion for a few seconds ...
> 15 or 20 seconds, I would guess .... then resumes normal
> playing again.
>
> First thought it might be CD ROM ... but this happens when
> a game is installed on the computer as well. Then we
> thought it might be a virtual memory (paging file)
> problem, received advice on how to check that and
> everything seems to be okay there.
>
> Have even done a complete restore back to the original
> factory settings and that didn't even work.
>
> Have dumped all kinds of files that we thought might be
> taking up too much space ... but even with a stripped
> computer running no additional programs in the
> background ... we still have the same problem.
>
> Any advice is appreciated!
>
> Stac