I receive Aero Lag when opening and closing windows in Windows 7

Well I had to reinstall last night cause when I first installed, somehow boot ____ got put on the secondary hdd when I had selected this drive. So after deleting some important files from the other drive I rebooted and it couldn't find any boot device! So anyways since my reinstall I have yet to have the stutter problem. So I don't know why it isn't reappearing, but it got me thinking...do you have a secondary hdd, and if you do, does it have Sys Info Vol, Boot or an bootmgr on it? If so it would be marked as Active. I had to inactivate it via Diskpart on the command prompt. Which since I did that and rebooted, the computer couldn't find a boot drive then I had to reinstall. This could be a cause since system files were on the second hdd...just an idea.

Nice find on the "There's various solutions to this issue (directly from the original poster's linked threads) that you should probably try." I only posted links to post about this, just to show that this is not an isolated problem, I really wasn't looking for a solution, but rather to see if MS was actually working on the problem or not. Yes, there can be solutions or workarounds, but an actual patch from MS was what we were looking for.

Randall

Anyone has already tried this solution?

Results?

There's various solutions to this issue (directly from the original poster's linked threads) that you should probably try.

1. Disable "Multi Step OC Booster" in BIOS
2. Modify refresh rate of monitor
3. Turn off "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing" (workaround only, not really a solution)
4. Install Nvidia Vista drivers instead of Windows 7 drivers
5. Modify "PowerMizer" settings in Nvidia Control Panel (Notebooks?)

I think it would also be worthwhile to indicate the following in your replies regarding this issue.

1. What video card and driver you are using
2. What motherboard you have

Also, some people have indicated that the issue goes away when they are playing a video or other graphic intensive task, which boosts the GPU to it's highest performance resulting in the windows opening and closing smoothly.  Do you guys experience the same thing?

Personally I haven't seen this issue but I would love to help investigate.

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I don't see how any driver or hardware problem in the graphics could result in the pause only when opening or closing windows, whereas maximising and minimising is not affected.

Well, when you consider that Aero uses hardware acceleration for its effects, and Win7 uses the GPU to accelerate other processing, and Win7 has made changes to the way it stores each window in vram on the graphics card to accelate it, you can see how the vid card and driver are heavily involved here. Add to this the fact that many people seem to find the issue resolved when Aero is switched off, I think the vid card and driver need serious consideration here.

If you don't want to try fixing it then don't, your choice. If you decided to install your vid drivers in the usual manner (ie. cleaning the old drivers first with a cleaner) then you will avoid many issues, as this is a well know cause of vid card issues. This is a simple thing to check out through experimentation, and ought to be your normal vid driver upgrade process anyway whether it helps this time or not.