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[ROFbeddingfield]

Ever since Windows stopped support for windows 7 and let it die, it takes for ever to start my system. I mean i need to wait about 8 minutes BEFORE i try to open any browser window, and quite often i still have to wait for 5 minutes the first time i open a browser.

Tonight i went to the pcgamer site and the stupid thing was crashed from the videos to click on and the add popups. Took me 16 minutes before i could actually get chrome closed out and i could dig grhough my history to get a page on the forums.

Is this a normal thing for people here, the huge lags?

 

[Brian Boru]

Is this a normal thing for people here, the huge lags?

Definitely not for me, it's as responsive as any other site—ie very responsive.

I did see someone complain about the same thing a few days ago, if I recall correctly it was in the Feedback forum.

ETA: Here it is and here is an admin response.

 

[OsaX Nymloth]

Sounds like a possible HDD or other hardware issue to me, honestly. I am still on Windows 7 myself and I don't have any of these problems.

 

[ROFbeddingfield]

I get the problem on alot of sites. Some days its worse but the average is 5-8 minutes. Mainly the chrome browser circle icon spinning, and a little white box in the bottom left corner saying crap about connecting to site.

 

[OsaX Nymloth]

Check your hardware, it's not Windows 7 issue (unless you made a real mess there).
Check your HDD/SSD S.M.A.R.T. values for starters, lots of free apps for that. I personally like

http://dirkhauschild.de/di_eng.php

(select your drive, switch to S.M.A.R.T. tab - if anything is in red, backup immediately)

Next step would be checking your temperatures for CPU during idle usage and then RAM with a tool like memtest 86.

 

[Brian Boru]

Try a different browser. I've found the new Edge will open a couple of sites which the other Chrome spin-offs I use choke on.

 

[Sniperclysm]

You my want to re-install windows 7. But try getting window 10.