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damienhe · 05-23-2009, 05:44 AM

Hi all,

I've just bought my Acer Aspire 4937G and I've had a lot of problems with it. At first, whenever I open up window explorer and select D drive, my window explorer would not respond for about 10-20 seconds, which is quite irritating. After a few weeks of using, my computer starts to slow down very badly. My task manager says that I have 102 processes but when I count I only have 40 of them. I opened up msconfig and turned off some programs but I still have a lot of hidden processes and this is the first time I've encountered this problem.

Also when I count the CPU usage of all the programs, normally it's only about 0-10%, but task manager says that the total amount of CPU usage is 10-80% all the time. It's very fustrating because I'm using this laptop to do my projects and it lags from time to time.

The other problem I'm facing is I can't seem to open full screen programs. When the program loads up it will "Alt-Tab" back to desktop. I have to keep trying to select the program and click somewhere before it automatically alt tab back.

To help with advice, for the past few weeks I've been doing a lot of work with my laptop and leaving it on for a very long time, at least 18 hours a day or so. I also have a habit of hibernating my laptop a lot because I tend to travel to different places everyday and I don't want to spend time shutting down and starting up. I've also heard that hibernating is better than shutting down.

I hope someone can help me with this problem soon. Thanks in advance!

05-23-2009, 05:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
damienhe Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Vista	Hidden processes and problems Hi all, I've just bought my Acer Aspire 4937G and I've had a lot of problems with it. At first, whenever I open up window explorer and select D drive, my window explorer would not respond for about 10-20 seconds, which is quite irritating. After a few weeks of using, my computer starts to slow down very badly. My task manager says that I have 102 processes but when I count I only have 40 of them. I opened up msconfig and turned off some programs but I still have a lot of hidden processes and this is the first time I've encountered this problem. Also when I count the CPU usage of all the programs, normally it's only about 0-10%, but task manager says that the total amount of CPU usage is 10-80% all the time. It's very fustrating because I'm using this laptop to do my projects and it lags from time to time. The other problem I'm facing is I can't seem to open full screen programs. When the program loads up it will "Alt-Tab" back to desktop. I have to keep trying to select the program and click somewhere before it automatically alt tab back. To help with advice, for the past few weeks I've been doing a lot of work with my laptop and leaving it on for a very long time, at least 18 hours a day or so. I also have a habit of hibernating my laptop a lot because I tend to travel to different places everyday and I don't want to spend time shutting down and starting up. I've also heard that hibernating is better than shutting down. I hope someone can help me with this problem soon. Thanks in advance!