Other than Windows automatically updating for me, no I haven’t installed anything else. I uninstalled the latest windows updates, and the problem still exists. Even with sticking to the updates before the vegas problem even occured.
@Stephen
I haven’t opened up any part of my laptop, and i’ve had it since January. is it okay to use a compressed air can for my laptop? or are there better alternative methods for cleaning the insides?
I have real temp, and here are the results with vegas playing

and

[quote]You don’t say how long it works “temporarily” – is it seconds, minutes, hours? You could be hitting your Pagefile, which will slow the running programs to a crawl. What is your Pagefile configuration? How much free space is on your system drive? Do you only have one drive? How much RAM?[/quote]
It seems to vary. Sometimes when I open it up it automatically slows down. Other times it takes 5 minutes before it slows down, or even 25-30 minutes before it slows down and starts to freeze up. The video only,not the audio
I have 668GB of Hardrive Space out of 884GB. with a SSD.(21.9 GB right now)
I have 8GB Ram, DDR3.4GB of ram on each side(Two slots)7.87 GB is usable
Page file? I had to do a quick google search and here are my results from my laptop

