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Answer» im quite good with computers, well i thought i was until recently when my pc started going sloowwwww. i have windows xp pro with sp2, would taking off service pack 2 make things fasterHuh No. What scanners have you used? What are your system temperatures? What are your complete specifications? When has this problem first occured?Motherboard 25 °C (77 °F) CPU 48 °C (118 °F) Aux 30 °C (86 °F) Maxtor 6E040L0 39 °C (102 °F) Maxtor 6Y080P0 42 °C (108 °F) only scanners iv used are antivir free, adawre se pro CPU Type: AMD Athlon XP, 1010 MHz (10 x 101) System Memory: 256 MB (PC2100 DDR SDRAM) Video Adapter: NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro (32 MB) 2 normal IDE ATA 133 hard drives it started going slowmo on me about 2 weeks back I would clean out all of the old junk FILES with CCLeaner, run chksdk and defrag, and fit more RAM to begin with. How much RAM will your motherboard take? RAM Knowledge Base RAM And What it Does RAM Virtual Memory Paging RAM Reseating & Fitting PDF File Quote only scanners iv used are antivir free, adawre se pro What type of Power Supply Unit is installed? Choose different scanners: Virus scanners AVG Free -- Anti virus scanner Trend Micro Housecall -- Online anti virus scanner. Anti spy/malware Microsoft Antispyware -- Anti spyware scanner. Windows XP Home and Professional only. Spybot Search & Destroy -- Anti spyware scanner Adaware SE Personal -- Anti spyware scanner Firewalls Use both a hardware and software firewall. Be advised as dual software firewalls may cause problems ZoneAlarm Free -- Free firewall - more user friendly Sygate Personal -- Free firewall - more configuration options Removal tools The following files are not substitutes for the ones described above. They are either diagnostic tools or removal tools for malware of a certain kind HijackThis -- Manual malware remover. Post the HijackThis log generated only if requested! McAfee Stinger -- Virus removal tool. No substitute for a fully functional virus scanner! CWshredder -- CoolWebSearch removal tool. Widely known and persistant Hijacker. Check Task Manager>Processes for anything hogging your cpu.Get a start-up manager..........processes with are running in the background pc user not aware of this .......download adavanced system ptimizer from systweak.com.............updating windows causes nothing but problems....... If it aint broke ....then dont fix it........when i press ctrl alt delete, at the bottom in the middle it says cpu usage:.. it changes from 10 to 20 and thiers no processers on the list that look like theyr dodgy virus's, but something for sure is deffenetly slowing this down.and msconfig only has 4 processers selected, my adsl modem, my firewall, antivirus and NVcpl.exe which is for the nvidia graphica adaptor or something would a task manager display more than what windows displays?Download and run "Autoruns" from http://www.sysinternals.com Configure it to 'Hide the Microsoft Entries' then refresh the screen. It will show you everything. BTW, my usage sits between 0% and 2%. How MANY running processes does your Task Manager show? I'm currently running 21 which includes 7 antibug processes.Are you setting any scanners to continiously scan?I would say remove SP2. Its a waste of time. I had it and when ever i played on the zone with Teamspeak running evry ones pings were on the RED! I remove it and my pc is going faster. Its not really worth it, if you have a firewall you dont need it. (just how i feel) RossAnd just as I thought the human race was one step closer to salvation..I distinctly remember SOMEONE saying, I'll teach you to play games with me! Might have been God I suppose.Maningen.... "it started going slowmo on me about 2 weeks back " Have you looked in your event viewer to see if anything shows up about 2 weeks ago ...when this issue started ......? If that was when you installed SP2 ...then something may be wrong with that install.......however if you have had SP2 installed prior to your issue .....I would seriously doubt that SP2 is creating the problem. When a pc is working just fine and then out of the blue it slows down dramatically .........The odds are it's a virus ,trojan or some form of malicous spyware . I would consider going on line and doing a online scan with possibly Symantec or McAfee .....this would at least add creedance to what your AV found . You should give Ewido Security Suite a try ..... http://www.download.com/Ewido-Security-Suite/3000-8022_4-10326287.html ...... it's free to try ......and it may point to the cause .......... You might also try Spybot a try as well ...http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html I would suggest you run these scans from the Safe Mode as opposed to the Normal mode to acheive the best results ...... Let us know how you make out ....... dl65 |
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