Hi,

I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 running XP SP2. 1Gb RAM and plenty of free HDD.
I'm running on a LAN joined to W2000


Intermittently, my start menu, task bar and quick launch do not respond.
However Alt+Tab will happily scroll through my running apps and I can use
the running apps without problems.

Task Managaer shows no CPU hogging and plenty of free RAM.

After a couple of minutes, my PC can spring in to life and execute all the
mouse clicks I had applied to start menu etc and there is a flurry of window
and pop-up activity.

I run numerous Spyware and Adware removal tools and have in the past found
these to locate and fix the problem. Increasingly, Spyware/Adware does not
appear to be the problem because the scans I run find nothing critical and
the problem will persist. The problem can also rectify itself after some
time without any intervention and 'appears' to start with Explorer grinding
to a halt,
unable to expand the folder tree and refresh the file list.

Thanks.

"Simon" <simon_hooker@NO.SPAMiprimus.com.au> wrote:

> I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 running XP SP2. 1Gb RAM and plenty of free
> HDD. I'm running on a LAN joined to W2000
>
> Intermittently, my start menu, task bar and quick launch do not respond.
> However Alt+Tab will happily scroll through my running apps and I can
> use the running apps without problems.
>
> Task Managaer shows no CPU hogging and plenty of free RAM.
>
> After a couple of minutes, my PC can spring in to life and execute all
> the mouse clicks I had applied to start menu etc and there is a flurry
> of window and pop-up activity.

See if there is the "Microsoft TCP/IP Version6" protocol installed. If
this is the case, uninstalling that protocol usually resolves that
problem.

--
d-d

I tried this and no obvious difference.

My desktop continues to throw go-slow spasms.

I have run anti-virus, adware and spyware.
I have disconected all of my mapped network drives.

Anything else?

"Detlev Dreyer" <detdreyer@flashmail.com> wrote in message
news:54c6d9015831a74015ad7833a0b3232d@d-d.mvps.org...
> "Simon" <simon_hooker@NO.SPAMiprimus.com.au> wrote:
>
>> I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 running XP SP2. 1Gb RAM and plenty of free
>> HDD. I'm running on a LAN joined to W2000
>>
>> Intermittently, my start menu, task bar and quick launch do not respond.
>> However Alt+Tab will happily scroll through my running apps and I can
>> use the running apps without problems.
>>
>> Task Managaer shows no CPU hogging and plenty of free RAM.
>>
>> After a couple of minutes, my PC can spring in to life and execute all
>> the mouse clicks I had applied to start menu etc and there is a flurry
>> of window and pop-up activity.
>
> See if there is the "Microsoft TCP/IP Version6" protocol installed. If
> this is the case, uninstalling that protocol usually resolves that
> problem.
>
> --
> d-d