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Problem with my laptop, help please.

post #1 of 17
1/9/06 at 1:20pm
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Last night everything was fine, but today all my programs and websites are laggy. Like if I'm scrolling down on a site, it's not like instant loading for the site. It loads from like the top to the bottom slowly. I checked my internet speed at banwidthplace.com and it's at 4.3 megabits per second... Yesterday night I downloaded Nvidia drivers and undervolted my processor, but I removed them now but still have this problem. Positive Rep for anyone that can help me.
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post #2 of 17
1/9/06 at 1:39pm
Do u have System Restore on, this is one of those rare occasions where rolling back your system mighty actually fix the problem.
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post #3 of 17
1/9/06 at 3:15pm
you may have some piece of adware/spyware that's messing up your system. Running Ad-Aware or Spybot would clear out that kind of stuff.
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post #4 of 17
1/9/06 at 4:19pm
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I just scanned my comp with Spybot, Adware and threw in Microsoft Antispyware for good measure. I removed two items and still have the lagginess.
I don't know if it matters, but like even when I drag my Adware program during the scan I could see something was wrong since when I moved the prog it wasn't smooth. One way I can explain it is like when your in a online game and it gets laggy. You take like one step it freezes then seconds later you are ten feet away from when you originally were.

Yeah, I'm not that great at explaining things..
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post #5 of 17
1/9/06 at 4:24pm
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Originally Posted by Djembe
you may have some piece of adware/spyware that's messing up your system. Running Ad-Aware or Spybot would clear out that kind of stuff.
Along with the above, I'd defrag, error-check and run an updated virus program.
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post #6 of 17
1/9/06 at 4:29pm
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Originally Posted by AzN
Last night everything was fine, but today all my programs and websites are laggy. Like if I'm scrolling down on a site, it's not like instant loading for the site. It loads from like the top to the bottom slowly. I checked my internet speed at banwidthplace.com and it's at 4.3 megabits per second... Yesterday night I downloaded Nvidia drivers and undervolted my processor, but I removed them now but still have this problem. Positive Rep for anyone that can help me.

whe you say you removed them, do you mean you removed the Nvidia drivers also? If so did you reinstall any graphics drivers, or is the machine running on the default windows drivers? If you did not reinstall an Nvidia driver I would suspect that is the problem, especially since the problem began with that. I would download the updated drivers for both your graphics card, and your chipset. Reinstall them, and see what happens, you shouldn't make it any worse, as long as you use the correct drivers.
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post #7 of 17
1/9/06 at 5:39pm
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Originally Posted by Guenat
whe you say you removed them, do you mean you removed the Nvidia drivers also? If so did you reinstall any graphics drivers, or is the machine running on the default windows drivers? If you did not reinstall an Nvidia driver I would suspect that is the problem, especially since the problem began with that. I would download the updated drivers for both your graphics card, and your chipset. Reinstall them, and see what happens, you shouldn't make it any worse, as long as you use the correct drivers.
and good point. Also, a few of the video drivers aren't that great and will give you the issues mentioned earlier. Switching to different drivers would fix the issue (if that's the cause)
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post #8 of 17
1/10/06 at 1:06pm
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I just decided to system restore to last night.. Yeah it fixed the problem.. the drivers I downloaded was the cause. But I have another question where do you go to to turn on the volume of my laptop. Any videos that I play doesn't have any sound.
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post #9 of 17
1/10/06 at 1:09pm
what kind of laptop is it?
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post #10 of 17
1/10/06 at 1:27pm
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Quanta MW1
There is like + volume and - volume icons on top of my keyboard but even when I try to make the volume higher there is still no sound.
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post #11 of 17
1/10/06 at 1:33pm
Go to "Sounds & Multimedia" under Control Panel and play around with the sound effects. If you can hear them then your problem is a either config issue in your video player and/or a driver issue conflicting with your videoplayer.
If you can't hear anything in the Control Panel then you probably have bad or incorrect drivers installed on your laptop.
Cheers.
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post #12 of 17
1/10/06 at 1:35pm
Do you get any sound out of your machine at all? If not you need to go to the control panel -> Sounds, and check to see if you have your system muted, and adjust the sound levels for your system.
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post #13 of 17
1/14/06 at 9:47pm
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I check the sound and audio in control panel.. In volume it says "No audio device" Also device volume is on low and I'm unable to move the bar to high. Mute and other options can't be turn on or off.
In audio
Sound playback
default device: no playback device
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post #14 of 17
1/14/06 at 9:53pm
Sounds like you need to reinstall your sound drivers..
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post #15 of 17
1/16/06 at 7:44pm
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Blah now I have another problem.. rather than making another thread I figured just to post in this one once again. I keep getting this message and it has closed a lot of my programs. It has closed everything from games to firefox. Thanks for your help once again.

Dwwin.exe Application Error
X The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click ok to terminate.
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post #16 of 17
1/17/06 at 10:45am
One of the biggest things being searched for on this site right now is dwwin.exe. The reason for this is because it displays during quite a few common fatal error messages.

First of all dwwin.exe is Dr Watson which is used by the error reporting tool. Alot of security related applications will throw up warning flags about this file trying to read, write or modify a number of other .exe files. This isn't anything to worry about because it's only trying to investigate "events" that it believes is causing problems that may lead to crashing.

File can be found:
*:\windows\system32\dwwin.exe

The biggest complaint about the error reporting service is it causing alot of various applications to not load or crash during use. Quite a few of these can be fixed by downloading updates from windows update and scanning for viruses/spyware but alot of others simply won't be fixed with the currently available updates. In that case you'll want to just disable the service! After that 90% of the time the program will then run properly.

pulled from http://process.networktechs.com/dwwin.exe.php
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post #17 of 17
1/17/06 at 11:11am
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How do I disable the process?
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