- Clean install of XP Pro and new HD, and motherboard s l o w XP now
- Posted by Steve C - Ohio on October 18th, 2005
My Dell 2,8Ghz, 1Gb memory, Pentium, had to haave the hard drive replaced,
and windoze XP Pro reinstalled, by a Dell service "tech". Sinec then, I have
noticed a serious degradation in the system performance! I have AdAware SE,
CA AntiVirus, and Spyware Doctor installed and checked daily. S t i l l s l
o w !! I have checked Task Manager and it shows a lot of Processes running,
but I am not real sure what they all are, and am afraid to change anything.
Any suggestions, at all , would be greatly appreciated! I'll try almost
anything to get my performance back. I am also running Disk Cleanup daily,
and Defrag FWIW.
- Posted by Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\) on October 18th, 2005
Steve
Download and run SpyBot S&D, SpywareBlaster and CWShredder too.. run all of
the anti-spyware programs in 'safe' mode..
http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
You might also want to put this site into favourites..
http://www.pchell.com
--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User
"Steve C - Ohio" <SteveCOhio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ACF741A1-A19C-4D53-B1D0-722D2DA64377@microsoft.com...
> My Dell 2,8Ghz, 1Gb memory, Pentium, had to haave the hard drive replaced,
> and windoze XP Pro reinstalled, by a Dell service "tech". Sinec then, I
> have
> noticed a serious degradation in the system performance! I have AdAware
> SE,
> CA AntiVirus, and Spyware Doctor installed and checked daily. S t i l l
> s l
> o w !! I have checked Task Manager and it shows a lot of Processes
> running,
> but I am not real sure what they all are, and am afraid to change
> anything.
> Any suggestions, at all , would be greatly appreciated! I'll try almost
> anything to get my performance back. I am also running Disk Cleanup daily,
> and Defrag FWIW.
- Posted by Ken Blake on October 19th, 2005
In news:ACF741A1-A19C-4D53-B1D0-722D2DA64377@microsoft.com,
Steve C - Ohio <SteveCOhio@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> My Dell 2,8Ghz, 1Gb memory, Pentium, had to haave the hard
> drive
> replaced, and windoze XP Pro reinstalled, by a Dell service
> "tech".
> Sinec then, I have noticed a serious degradation in the system
> performance! I have AdAware SE, CA AntiVirus, and Spyware
> Doctor
> installed and checked daily. S t i l l s l o w !! I have
> checked
> Task Manager and it shows a lot of Processes running, but I am
> not
> real sure what they all are, and am afraid to change anything.
> Any
> suggestions, at all , would be greatly appreciated! I'll try
> almost
> anything to get my performance back. I am also running Disk
> Cleanup
> daily, and Defrag FWIW.
It's very difficult to help with so little information. Exactly
*which* process are running? Also which applications are running?
Despite what anti-spyware programs you're running, spyware would
be my first guess for the problem.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup
- Posted by Paul on October 19th, 2005
I'd first make sure "Fast User Switching" and "Indexing Sevice" are shut off.
They each use up a lot of power. Go to "Black Viper"s site for information on
how to set up the various services.
"Steve C - Ohio" wrote:
> My Dell 2,8Ghz, 1Gb memory, Pentium, had to haave the hard drive replaced,
> and windoze XP Pro reinstalled, by a Dell service "tech". Sinec then, I have
> noticed a serious degradation in the system performance! I have AdAware SE,
> CA AntiVirus, and Spyware Doctor installed and checked daily. S t i l l s l
> o w !! I have checked Task Manager and it shows a lot of Processes running,
> but I am not real sure what they all are, and am afraid to change anything.
> Any suggestions, at all , would be greatly appreciated! I'll try almost
> anything to get my performance back. I am also running Disk Cleanup daily,
> and Defrag FWIW.
- Posted by Steve C - Ohio on October 19th, 2005
OK, I ran them all, and have not noticed a big difference, with no major
issues found. I did uninstall Windows XP Plus! and it seemed to help more.
WHen I get back home to my PC, I'll post aq list of the programs that are
running, per Paul's request, to see if that may be a big part of the problem
or not.
"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:
> Steve
>
> Download and run SpyBot S&D, SpywareBlaster and CWShredder too.. run all of
> the anti-spyware programs in 'safe' mode..
>
> http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html
>
> http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
>
> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
>
> You might also want to put this site into favourites..
>
> http://www.pchell.com
>
> --
> Mike Hall
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Steve C - Ohio" <SteveCOhio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ACF741A1-A19C-4D53-B1D0-722D2DA64377@microsoft.com...
> > My Dell 2,8Ghz, 1Gb memory, Pentium, had to haave the hard drive replaced,
> > and windoze XP Pro reinstalled, by a Dell service "tech". Sinec then, I
> > have
> > noticed a serious degradation in the system performance! I have AdAware
> > SE,
> > CA AntiVirus, and Spyware Doctor installed and checked daily. S t i l l
> > s l
> > o w !! I have checked Task Manager and it shows a lot of Processes
> > running,
> > but I am not real sure what they all are, and am afraid to change
> > anything.
> > Any suggestions, at all , would be greatly appreciated! I'll try almost
> > anything to get my performance back. I am also running Disk Cleanup daily,
> > and Defrag FWIW.
>
>
>
