Very Slow, and often unresponsive W8 OS

I've recently purchased a Samsung Series 7 all-in-one computer. Having used iMacs all my life, and the need for a Windows computer for programming, I opted for this machine.

Here is a screenshot of my specs before I continue:



At times the system is unresponsive. All I have open is Visual Studio Express 2012 and Chrome with 4 tabs open. When I switch to Visual Studio it has to restart and crashes. The application I'm developing is tiny, so it's not an issue with that. Sometimes when using Chrome if I open a new tab the whole computer will freeze for 20 odd seconds.

Even when I ctrl+alt+del to open task manager, the task manager takes some time to open.

I've disabled visual effects, but I've not noticed much difference. It came with 4GB ram, but I got another 4GB to top it up to 8GB.

In comparison to my 2010 Sony Vaio laptop this computer is much slower. I can't understand why.

I'm tempted to downgrade to Windows 7 but then I will lose my touch features, and I will have to purchase Windows 7.

Any ideas on how to fix these issues? I really can't see it being a performance issues as my system specs are far from poor for programming work.

I had crashings with Chrome & IE 10.

I started using Opera & the crashings stopped.

The latest Opera version is very stable.

You could test it to see if it helps your situation.

David Bailey said:

I had crashings with Chrome & IE 10.

I started using Opera & the crashings stopped.

The latest Opera version is very stable.

You could test it to see if it helps your situation.

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Cheers mate. Did Chrome cause other apps to crash, as in my case with Visual Studio?

I never noticed.
I usually had it shut off when working with programs.

Whenever I used Chrome the computer would freeze up.

I have all my drivers updated too.
Outdated drivers can cause problems.

David Bailey said:

I never noticed.
I usually had it shut off when working with programs.

Whenever I used Chrome the computer would freeze up.

I have all my drivers updated too.
Outdated drivers can cause problems.

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Ah ok. I would attempt a fresh install, but I didn't get a disk when I bought the computer. I only got it yesterday from PC World. I don't like all the junk that's installed on computers when you buy them from places like PC World.

Do you have these options:

Ooooh. Yes I have those. Will give that a try.

geekman said:

Ooooh. Yes I have those. Will give that a try.

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Good luck.