Over the past month vista has been making my computer run really slow. Now I dont think that its my hardware. I currently have a rig with: 1)gtx295 2)i920 quad core 3)X-FI extreme music 4)wdc wd3200jd 298gb 5) 6gb of ddr2 ram I also have a wireless connection which is connected to a fios 20mb modem. Ive noticed that my computer shudders and these include: games, music, or just simply moving the mouse around. It tends to happen whenever I download something big or keep the computer on for a long time. Ive also noticed that when i do a speed test, its very low or slow. The 2mb range compared to 20mb i ussually get. Whenever its this low, the studddering occurs. If I play music and lets say load the page of this website, the music studders. If i download something and play a game, the game studders. And even if i do something simple like open Mozilla or dowload pictures my computer shows immense hardrive ACTIVITY, and my whole pc slows to a crawl. The only way I find that temporarly helps these issues is a restart (24 hours later it starts up again). Now Im not sure what the causes this but I do notice that Windows Security Alerts tells me that ZOnealarm is not compatible with this OS.

I was poking around other sites and in a similar post , i heard that it might be an irq issue or conflict. I checked my irq where the x-fi card is. I have that as well as a gigabyte gbb36x controller, and a intel ich10 family pci express root port 2 3a42 sharing that. I'm not sure what this means but is it bad.

I hope you are using Windows 64bit and not 32bit. The 32bit opperating system can not handle ram above 3.5 GB. Also being a Quad Core you may be over heating. What does Speed Fan say? http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

How old is your rig ? Could be a driver issue, it seems. Also check temperatures as advised above Response #2. Turn off Indexing and see if it helps. Above all, open TaskManager and click Processes tab. See if something is eating up CPU cycles. Regards SuatCINI

speed fan reports 56c on core 1 and 2 and i have windpows aero installed and i turned off indexing but still the studder

You have not answered all the questions. Did you open Task Manager and determine if some process is consuming too much of your CPU cycles ? What about hardware drivers ? Are they all current and to the latest versions ? Regards SuatCINI

I checked task manager and it said that: Rmtray.exe *32 is consuming 13% of cpu and Firefox 1% it seems that the rm tray is always up there Um i checked the drivers, i have the latest xfi drivers and for the gtx i stick with the 182 drivers because the new 190 ones suck, and dont allow a full 1920x1080. I also tried disabling windows defender but no success.