Windows 10: Videos lag or freeze when playing

About 4 years ago I upgraded my Dell desktop from Windows 7 64 bit to Windows 10 64 bit.
I've noticed that there is a lag or freezing of screens including video where the spinning donut goes around and around. I don't have the same issue on my phone with the videos so it has to be the computer.

I just changed the Windows 10 virtual memory paging file sizing from a geekinphoenix.com blog post to initially 1.5 times the total system memory of 8 gb of (1,024 X 8 X 1.5= 12,288 and the maximum size to 3 times the initial to 36,864.

I still noticed a lag.

What can I do to increase the performance so that this does not happen?

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When playing downloaded videos on laptop, it lags.

Hi Nelson,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand that the videos are playing with lag in every player. We will help you.

To assist you better, I suggest you to answer the below questions.

• What is the make and model of your PC?
• From where did you update the display adapter?
• Did you check playing in Windows media player?
• Which file format are you trying to play?
• Is the issue specific to the Video or all the videos?

Please post to us with more information to help you better.

 

Video Lag

Hi John,

The latency in playing videos might have been caused by network interruption, or an incompatible graphics driver. For us to isolate the issue, we would like to ask these questions:

• Does the issue happens when playing videos online or you have experienced the latency when playing videos that are saved on your drive too?
• Which browser are you using?
  
• Have you made any recent changes to your system settings prior to this issue?
• Have you encountered any network issues?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

In the meantime, we suggest that you use Microsoft Edge and
Internet Explorer to check if the issue persists. If the issue happens in Internet Explorer, please use this article as your reference:

Videos won’t play in Internet Explorer.

We look forward for your response.

 

Video and audio lagging on Windows 10

I have tried every step that you suggested with no good results. I have a TOSHIBA SATELLITE L675D-S7049..

The exact problem is the video and the sound lags and makes a buzzing sound . it does it on all videos and sound. even on iTUNES