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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Performance and Maintainance / September 2006recent slow down
Recently I have noticed my computer is responding terribly slow to commands....I am running a desktop with an Intel P4 2.8 with ht and 2 gigs of PC4000 ...This system is used for gaming mostly as well as e-mail and surfing the web...what used to take MAYBE 5 seconds to open can now take up to 2 minutes to open....I have the following programs with latest definitions and run them religiously Norton Security 2006 (antivirus antispam as well as firewall ) scans 3 times a week Sunbelt's Counterspy. scans twice a week CCleaner..I run once a week Executive software's Diskeeper runs every night Bill Ps Winpatrol premium with nothing out of the ordinary showing I run Tweaknow's registry cleaner to see what is going on as well,,The only other recent changes I have made was connecting a 24" flat panel monitor and upgrading my video card drivers for optimum resolution... One thing I did find when doing the old %temp% was some files or whatever they may be ... These are what they show as a name (all thirteen) ~DF5DCO ~DF7EO8 ~DF8AE7 ~DF40BF ~DF68EE ~DF220F ~DF4381 ~DFB8D7 ~DFB273 ~DFCD7C ~DFDBAE ~DFF765 ~DFFCD0....Does anyone know what these are and if maybe they are causing the problem ???... By the way I am also connected to the net through a router (hardware firewall) and have the fastest internet access available.. At&t Elite service...My connection is as fast as ever so I do not think that has anything to do with it and it is also not affecting my wifes laptop who also runs the same programs (not affected) All help would be appreciated...........Thanks in advance Drew Could be due to spyware or malware. I know that you run Counterspy, but there is not one spyware/malware program that gets all of it. I would also recommend that you get and run Ad-aware and Spybot (and possibly run Windows Defender). Also malware can cause problems, and it's possible that your virus program and/or the spyware programs might not catch it. You can try Windows Malicious Sofware Removal Tool: http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx. You have nothing to worry about with the temp files. They are harmless. They only take up space. If you don't want them you can run Disk Cleanup (Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup) to get rid of them. Another thing you can check for is warnings or errors in the Event Viewer. This could possibly give you a better idea of what is happening. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer. Look through the 3 sections to find any warnings or errors. I would go for the errors first. Look at the Event displayed and enter this number into www.eventid.net. This will give you an idea of where the errors are coming from and possibly how to resolve them. BTW do you have a significantly longer startup time than normal? -Dan Thanks for the response...as for your first statement...I should have mentioned that I do already run more than one antispy program and run scans always...Disk cleanup does not touch those files at all and they will not allow me to delete them...I am told by the computer that they are in use ??and as for the startup....Yes it is longer than normal,,,another thing I should have mentioned...Sorry about that.... > Could be due to spyware or malware. I know that you run Counterspy, but there > is not one spyware/malware program that gets all of it. I would also [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > -Dan Hi Please try the following article: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm  SignatureWill Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups > Recently I have noticed my computer is responding terribly slow to > commands....I am running a desktop with an Intel P4 2.8 with ht and 2 [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > runs the same programs (not affected) All help would be > appreciated...........Thanks in advance Drew Hi Will..Thanks for your response...I followed your advice and did what the page requested....I have had some experience with Hijack this and I have already posted there as well (Tom Coyote.org)...Nothing yet...I have run 4 antivirus scans from 4 different companies...I have run antispy scans from Ewido,Counterspy,Spysweeper,,Ad-Aware and Spybot....Nothing found and nothing cured... I was thinking more about this and remembered recently that I had swapped out my 19" lcd for a 24" lcd and was wondering if that could do it as it was just about the same time but my system is more than powerful enough to run it...Video card is a BFG 6200oc with latest nvidia drivers and I did follow all instructions for install...I am about ready to wipe the drive and reinstall so all help would be appreciated.....Thanks again Drew > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > runs the same programs (not affected) All help would be > > appreciated...........Thanks in advance Drew Don't think it would be the bigger monitor causing the problem, but just to make sure try re-connecting your older monitor to your system and see if there's any improvement. If there's not improvement then it might be an issue with your newly updated video card drivers. To see if this is the problem then go to Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager. From there go to Display Adapters, expand it with the +, double click on your video card listing, go to the Driver tab and then click Roll Back Driver. Re-start your system and see if there's any improvement. If not then you can update your driver again. If it's a new video card you can try swapping it out for your old one and see if there's an improvement. Try these one by one so that you know for sure if specifically one of these is the problem. If these work then you' can at least try to fix the specific problem, if not then you've at least ruled them out as problems. -Dan Hi, I'm new to newsgroups. My computer keeps saying my virtual memory paging file is too low. I have changed the performance level to maximum. . That didn't help much. It keeps adding more virtual memory..is that the best I can do? I have 256 ram, 2.8 GHz processor, since I joined myspace, it's been tough. How much are memory cards these days? How much memory is common these days. This computer is going on two years as I recall.. Thanks. Sally > Don't think it would be the bigger monitor causing the problem, but just to > make sure try re-connecting your older monitor to your system and see if [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > -Dan have you restricted the size of your page file. this is what it seems to be complaining. set your page file to SYSTEM MANAGED. mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com Hi, I'm new to newsgroups. My computer keeps saying my virtual memory paging file is too low. I have changed the performance level to maximum. . That didn't help much. It keeps adding more virtual memory..is that the best I can do? I have 256 ram, 2.8 GHz processor, since I joined myspace, it's been tough. How much are memory cards these days? How much memory is common these days. This computer is going on two years as I recall.. Thanks. Sally LittleMoo wrote: > Don't think it would be the bigger monitor causing the problem, but just to > make sure try re-connecting your older monitor to your system and see if [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > -Dan You sould have started a new thread so that this wasn't burried within this one. Anyway, windows uses the paging file as a substitute for RAM in the event that there's not enough RAM. So there is an inverse relationship between the amount of RAM in your system and how big the paing file is. More RAM = less paging file usage. (plus more ram will probably give your system a speed boost) I would say that if your system keeps increasing your paging file size then you could either do what mikeyhsd said or you could double the amount of RAM in your system. About the average these days is 512MB - 1 Gig of RAM, and these days it's definately cheap enough to add more to a system. -Dan |
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