Can you provide more information on when you get pauses - is it when you visit new sites (ie could be a delay in DNS lookups), is it while you are in the middle of doing something? How long do these pauses last? How often do they come up (ie every 1 min)? Does it come up at a regular interval? Are the pauses the same length? Have you got an AV product running in the background analysing every object you download from the web? etc etc
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