Morgantao problem with his working badly computer

I think I can help you with some questions

How hot is the place you are having the computer ?

Which version of Windows do you have ?

How clean is the computer inside ?

Have you checked the MSCONFIG to see if there any unknown and unrecognizable new element or software that it starts at the start of windows ?

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Morgantao wrote: All I know is the HDD light lights up and stays on for the whole 10 minutes. Then it's all back to normal for a while, till it happens exactly the same, over and over.

This is strange, there must be probably something that needs to access the hard drive to make it´s work and blocks all the activity of all the other tasks and sucks all the power for himself until it finishes and so then all is back to normal.

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Morgantao wrote: As far as I can tell, I don't have any antivirus, defragger, etc. scheduled to run automatically ever, they're all on manual, on demand settings.

What antivirus are you using ?

Do you have ALSO an antispyware software?

Do you have an internet security software ? Because if you ONLY have an antivirus, is like having nothing.

With my experiance, it's the AV itself that malfunctions and developes OCD. Then it decides to freeze everythign for a suprise super important secret virus hunt. But since I don't have any viruses or trojans, it needs to look again. And again. Then again.

It happaned to me before, but simply reinstalling the AV didn't do the trick, I just don't remember what I had to do to get it to work right. Could be that I got a newer version. I dunno.

Anyway, about your questions:
How hot - Too hot, it's around 100 degrees F all the time.
Which version of Windows - Windows 7 64 bit
How clean is the computer inside - As clean as one could expect when you have 4 cats and live in a dusty hot place.

Yes, CFandM, I forgot to tell Morgantao to make a cleaning of windows with a very good software that is from the same company piriform

www.ccleaner.com This an excellent and powerful free software that works very well

Please, run this software and clean the trash and garbage from your windows, and also clean your registry (cliclk yes when asked to make a backup)

This alone could help much sometimes.

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Morgantao wrote: I have Kaspersky's internet security 11 and antivirus.

YES, YES, YES, I think I know what is happening !!!!!

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I had a very, very bad experience 3 years ago, when I had the computer that was more slow than a reumatic snail

If you have seen my history above, I did not tell HOW did I solve this. Although I had the problem of the trojan virus, the greatest and bad problem WAS FROM THE SECURITY SOFTWARE !!!! AND IT WAS KASPERSKY´S

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Morgantao wrote: As for time pattern, I have noticed that 3 minutes past every hour there's a always a freezing of around 7-8 minutes. Then there are random freezes in between, which are usualy only arond 5-6 minutes

YES, exactly this is what happens with Kaspersky that gets mad and paranoid searching continually the hard drive for supossed threats and blocks the computer for some time.

It was really VERY ANNOYING AND FRUSTRATING when this was happening to me and then I contacted customer support and they told that it could not be stopped and if I wanted to have the best security this was the way

AND I have read on a magazine that Kasperky 11 is even worse and have more problems and freezes frequently the computer even when all is clean and working right.

After uninstalling the Kaspersky I have not had again this problem.

NOW the best internet security (and very cheap too with many offers available up to 70% discount) is surely NORTON INTERNET SECURITY 2012, it works flawlessly, is very silent, and it has a complete control of the computer BEING TRANSPARENT and does never hog or make a problem in the computer.

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Morgantao wrote: The weird thing is, this just started to happen a couple of weeks ago, and I have KIS installed for over two years.

YES, this is the same as it happened to me TOO, I had KIS for around two years, with some scattered problems but nothing serious, UNTIL one day the computer began to make this freezing and was all because of KIS, so I kissed it goodbye

I have windows 7 professional, but that doessn't mean it listens to what I want

KIS is annoying in more than one way, I'll be the first to admit. I've been using all kinds of KAV and KIS for the better part of 10 years now, since it always seemed to be the best for my needs. Could be that it's time is up, and it's time to replace it with something fresher.
I used to have Norton antivirus for many years, untill about 10 years ago, when it became a notorious memory hog, and new viruses could add themselves to it's white list. That turned it to a useless software. I'll have to check it out again, for as SR said, it seems the norton guys reinvented it and made it useful again.

Too bad I have around 21 months of KIS license, as I only recently bought a two year license. That's money well spent

Well, I just installed KIS 12 which is supposed to be MUCH better than KIS 11 and also removed another big bugware from Western Digital. I don't know if it ever had an impact on my computer, but according to many thousands of angry users, it's a major CPU hog that attacks at the most rediculus times.

For now, it looks like everything is going much smoother. I'll have to give it a few days to see if it's actually better, or just a lucky break.

Yep. I have an external Western Digital HD, which came with WD Smartware.
It's supposed to be good for automatic backups and stuff like that, but I never used it. I read online that a great many people found this to be more of a bugware than a smartware, as it would take 60% of CPU power when the external drive isn't even connected to the computer...

While my computer was freezing and lagging, I thought maybe this had something to do with it, so I uninstalled it (There's no way to tell it to NOT load with windows).

Let me ask you this:
Have you ever used Smartware? Other than it loading with windows, have you ever opened it and did anything with it?
If the answer is no, then it's safe to say you can uninstall it, and keep on not using it.