Question: I’ve had a problem that only started to occur yesterday. When I boot into Windows 7 and log on to my user account, the computer gets very laggy and slow for at least 5 minutes. Icons take ages to load, and everything is rendered unclickable. This happens for about five minutes after which everything goes back to normal. I tried restarting a few times to see if this is a recurring problem, and it is. I ran a full system scan with ?Microsoft Security Essentials and found nothing wrong, and I also defragmented the disk to increase performance. However, the problem still exists.
Edit: For the past day, I’ve been trying to ?install Ubuntu on the same laptop. When installing it on a partition didn’t work, I decided to use Wubi. Could this somehow be the problem? Also, my hard drive gets hot a lot, so could the heat be affecting the hard drive and maybe making it defective?
Any help on this issue would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
Answer: Microsoft knows about this.. its a bug that happens when you have a background other than a windows 7 one, ie the toshiba or hp ones that come preloaded or another non windows 7 backgrounds. they have known about this for quite a while and havent yet fixed it. I had the same problem. If you change it to a standard windows one it will load quickly. it threw me off too because i have the new i7 processor and it took forever to load.