[adomakin]

my laptop has this irritating problem and i can't get to the bottom of it. when i type a password or search topic etc or when i am deleting lots of text there seems to be a noticable delay every couple of seconds where the computer sort of pauses, then catches up with what im typing/deleting. i even see the same 'pause' if im watching a clip on youtube or in windows media player etc. the image will run for three or four seconds then pause for a second then resume playing then pause etc etc...its almost like the laptop has this continual hickup in the processor that affects every running task.

its a dell ispiron 6400, 6months old with a due core processor, 2gig ram running vista ultimate. ive switched off all the pretty stuff that kills performance (or at least i think i have) and i have norton 360'd and adaware'd it and although it found a couple of threats they have been removed so it is in theory clean.

anyone seen this before?