Upgraded computer moving more sluggish

[letsgetsilly]

My laptop has recently been upgraded to Windows 64 bit, 8 gigabytes of RAM, and a new SSD. You'd think all of these upgrades would improve my computer's response speed, but the opposite is true.

I experience very slow response times in Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, and in Windows in general. Sometimes my mouse just disappears, often times my screen "freezes" for moments. And the speed that text displays on screen when I'm typing is often extremely slow, as if the computer is struggling to translate text onto a web browser/notepad/etc.

I'm a fairly experienced technician, building computers for the past 15 years and optimizing them, but this has me stumped. I've updated all my drivers, gone through some standard Windows 7 tweaks, SSD tweaks, and I'm at the end of my rope.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I didn't put this box's operating system on it, my company's technicians did, so I'm tempted to just rebuild.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Puppies04]

Is your power plan set to high performance?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Did you leave all the visual effects turned on?

 

[AFurryReptile]

When you upgraded the memory, did you properly set the voltage and timings in your BIOS?

Did you reinstall your OS fresh? Or did you copy it from another hard drive?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Could be SATA channel issues, that can cause pauses.

Is the Laptop SATA6G? Is the SSD?

What Brand and Model is the SSD? Some of them do have "stuttering" issues, though most modern ones are past those issues.