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Old February 7th, 2009, 07:26 PM
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stuttering laptop

My computer stutters, usually when I open a video or music file on my computer. At points it happens even with no video playing, even the startup sounds stutter and crackle. I have run numerous antivirus programs and nothing seems to have stopped it, although I have used a “System Optimizer” which lessens the problem, until I re-start and the problems reoccur. At first I thought It might be RAM but I have upgraded from “1”GB to 1.49GB and that did not help. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Old February 9th, 2009, 06:09 AM
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What specs are your computer and operating system?
How many programs are running at start up?

"run numerous antivirus programs"
Uninstall all security programs, reboot any test.
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Old February 9th, 2009, 03:17 PM
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XP – Home, Version 2002 SP2; Toshiba-Satellite, Pentium M 2GHz, 1.49 GB RAM

Startup is mostly Toshiba stuff- Drive Acoustic Silencer, Synaptics Pointing Device, Intel Media Accelerator, zooming utilities, Virtual Sound etc, Intel Wireless internet.. plus Kaspersky antivirus (Trial Version), I usually use McAfee I get it free with through my internet provider but switch to see if it would solve the problem.

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Old February 10th, 2009, 02:45 AM
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XP – Home...SP2
First off, you want to get SP3 installed. Do that first.
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Old February 22nd, 2009, 02:51 AM
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I now have SP3
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Old February 22nd, 2009, 03:01 AM
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Run Malwarebytes and after it's done reboot and run it again.
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Ran it twice as instructed, full scan, no malware.
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Old March 5th, 2009, 05:46 AM
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In Run... type eventvwr.msc

Look at Application and System for errors, they'll be in red.
Two-click them and see what they are they might point to a problem.
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