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Intermittent Slow Down/Freezing
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Posted by: Zow
O/S: W2k
40G HDD w/80% free space
512DDR RAM
Processor AMD: 1.53Ghz
On board vid/sound
Recently found several viruses/parasites on the system, ran variety of scanners and system "appears" to be clean of any infestations.
Problem: System is running very slow, at times freezing. IE: your typing in MSN and the text stops showing up, then if you wait it catches up. Other programs that ran fine pre-virus state are now taking much longer to fire up.
Zow. (dazed & confused)
Posted by: redwench
ah hah. start by totally updating windows and ie. then proceed to acquire adaware and spybot, update and run them. then download the latest cwshredder and run it. also check your startup list and disable the stuff you dont need on startup. reboot and see if there is any change.
Posted by: steveb
Could be some windows 'speedup' rubbish called 'find fast' or 'system optimization' (which I believe is some sort of mini-defrag and runs from the Scheduled Tasks control (or wahtever it's called)). The other possibility is windows wandering off down your LAN connection for some reason.
Posted by: Zow
Did as suggested, S & D did find a couple things, but after fixing them same problem still exists. I took the RAM stick out and re-seated it, no change. I was curious if the next step would be to re-install Windows? Dumb question time...could this be a power supply problem?
Posted by: redwench
its very unlikely a power supply problem would cause that particular symptom. go into your xp services list and start disabling stuff.
Posted by: jrpm
I had a similar problem once with a USB 1.x device (mouse). I don't know what caused it (don't use USB that much, early drivers etc) but it cleared up when I changed to a PS2 port.
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