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thanks, I'm going to read up on that link. Excuse my ignorance, but which devices can I safely disable without 'cutting off the branch' (i.e., keyboard, screen, mouse etc.)?
– Benjol
Commented Oct 22, 2010 at 11:24
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Not sure, my primary suspects would be non-Microsoft services. I'd just try, if it goes wrong you can boot in safe mode and re-enable the drivers
– Andomar
Commented Oct 22, 2010 at 11:28
OK, I see that page includes a list of drivers to avoid. Have to hope it's not one of them.
– Benjol
Commented Oct 22, 2010 at 11:28
Before that, I think I'm going to try booting from a recovery disk - if I still get the problem, it's more likely to be a hardware thing?
– Benjol
Commented Oct 22, 2010 at 11:32
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+1 for latency checker. In my experience, the most common culprit here is the driver for a wireless networking card.
– Shinrai
Commented Oct 22, 2010 at 15:12

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