W 10 HICCUP

**jx2mad** · 18th August 2016, 02:20 PM

My w 10 computer went into sleep mode today. On trying to wake it the screen flashed white 5-6 times followed by flickering colours. I then got my home screen but there was a coloured square about 2 1/2 cm square just off centre. I shut the computer and rebooted. The colour square has gone but now if I play card games they run slow and the card being moved lags behind the pointer and moves in a jerky way. Other functions seem ok. I have run my virus and malware scanners and I had a heap of pup programs which have been cleaned out. Computer still running slow. Any help?

**Finnius** · 18th August 2016, 07:23 PM

- Perhaps the PC is doing updates in the background. The anniversary update came out last week which can hog resources.

- Run task manager and see what programs are hogging the resources (ctrl+alt+del, then click task manager)

- What antivirus program did you run? Malwarebytes is a fantastic free one that is a small download.

- If it is only card games that make the computer lag and the initial problem was a display problem, there could be problem with your display adapter. This could be caused by a windows update installing a less than ideal driver for your adapter. Go to device manager and check out the display adapters, then right click and choose update driver.

- If all else fails you should be able to just do a system refresh that will leave all your files in place but refresh system files, drivers etc.

What type of PC is it?

**jx2mad** · 22nd August 2016, 10:38 AM

Problem solved by changing power option to fast. It seems that this is a common problem.

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