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My computer slower than normal.
Admiral Suzie
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Like, way slower, in fact think I've watched water evaporate faster than this. It slows down in my games, just surfing the net and hell even when I turn the computer on, after it automatically loads up Windows Live it just gets slow as molasses. And yes, it has run all of these tasks before just fine, the only programs that are new are Dawn of War: Platinum Edition and Winamp, the latter I deleted soon after thinking it might have been the problem. Bad download or something, if I knew what I was doing I wouldn't be asking for help.
It's still responsive though, if I hit the windows key it will still open up the task bar, it just takes slower than normal. A lot slower. Normally something like that, even while running like The Sims 2 or something it doesn't take more than a second or two but now it's much much slower. I haven't timed it but I know well enough that with this computer it's definitely not normal. It doesn't even load up Windows Task Manager on time, it waits until it's done flipping out to load it up.
I've run anti-virus and spyware programs to try to fix this, but they didn't work.
To be honest I haven't tried to defragment or anything like that, cause it takes hours and I don't like to sleep with my computer on, it keeps me awake so I keep procrastinating about that. I'm not sure it would do any good if I tried though, I know that computers slow down if you don't defragment like you should but this is much different.
I've got Windows XP, about 300GB of memory, 2GB of RAM, my video card is an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT and my processor runs at about 2.33GHz.
Not sure what else you need to know.
EDIT: I don't think I was clear before, it's freezing, but unlike your typical freeze it's still responsive just slower than hell.
It's still responsive though, if I hit the windows key it will still open up the task bar, it just takes slower than normal. A lot slower. Normally something like that, even while running like The Sims 2 or something it doesn't take more than a second or two but now it's much much slower. I haven't timed it but I know well enough that with this computer it's definitely not normal. It doesn't even load up Windows Task Manager on time, it waits until it's done flipping out to load it up.
I've run anti-virus and spyware programs to try to fix this, but they didn't work.
To be honest I haven't tried to defragment or anything like that, cause it takes hours and I don't like to sleep with my computer on, it keeps me awake so I keep procrastinating about that. I'm not sure it would do any good if I tried though, I know that computers slow down if you don't defragment like you should but this is much different.
I've got Windows XP, about 300GB of memory, 2GB of RAM, my video card is an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT and my processor runs at about 2.33GHz.
Not sure what else you need to know.
EDIT: I don't think I was clear before, it's freezing, but unlike your typical freeze it's still responsive just slower than hell.
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Or did those programs break?
Tell me, oh broken computer. If the spyware and anti-virus programs aren't working, your computer is probably loaded with spyware and viruses.
If they ran fine, and turned up nothing, likely the defrag will help, unless you've got a component actually going out on your computer.
Also, how full is your harddrive? If it doesn't have much space left that could be a problem as well.
And it's hardly full, I got like 211GB of space left.
What are you using to scan for spyware? Ad-aware? Spybot?
Also, could you take a picture of your task manager? If not, you can run through the list of .exes (just type the name of the process, like 'explorer.exe' into google and it'll show you within the first few results what that process belongs to) that are on there to figure out if anything is running that shouldn't be. And with so few programs installed, it should just be Windows things.
I actually have one saved from a few days ago, I don't think anything is changed though. I showed it to someone else for some advice but nothing has changed. This issue has been around for about a week. I'm just terribly lazy and way too tolerant of slow computers.
It's huge by the way, and in no way just a few programs.
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e157/AdmiralSuzie/Untitled.jpg
run a HijackThis and post the log
You might actually have a hardware issue, but I'd try uninstalling some programs that run that you don't use. Out of the three computers I have running with TrendMicro, I haven't seen any slowdowns related to it.
Go through that list with the process library link, and see what you can bear to part with, anything that you don't use on a regular basis. Even if you don't uninstall it, you can go into the settings for the program and tell it to stop running constantly in the background if it's unnecessary.
And yes, please post a HijackThis log.
The next step would be to check memory usage.
If none of those are the culprit, chances are it's disk I/O.
Follow these steps: http://members.cox.net/kidblitz/xpcleanup.htm
In your case, specifically steps 3 through 5.
A lot of the things on the process list that the OP posted can be shut off or uninstalled as they're useless.
If you're running 55 processes on a relatively idle computer, then yeah, it can be a bunch.
also look at something like registry mechanic, helps clean up the junk in your computer. empty recycle bin, clear temp files, etc as well
How long has it been since the last time you reformatted?
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Scan saved at 10:38:35 PM, on 4/23/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16640)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
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C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgamsvr.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\SharedCOM\RoxWatch9.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ICO.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\RTHDCPL.EXE
C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\UpdateService\issch.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\SharedCOM\RoxWatchTray9.exe
C:\Program Files\Roxio\Drag-to-Disc\DrgToDsc.exe
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD DX\PDVDDXSrv.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static\MOM.EXE
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Dell Support Center\bin\sprtcmd.exe
C:\program files\valve\steam\steam.exe
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\TeaTimer.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\WMPNSCFG.exe
C:\Program Files\Digital Line Detect\DLG.exe
C:\Program Files\Dell Support Center\bin\sprtsvc.exe
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static\ccc.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\SharedCOM\RoxMediaDB9.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\SharedCOM\CPSHelpRunner.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\usnsvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe
C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware 2007\aawservice.exe
C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware 2007\Ad-Aware2007.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
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O23 - Service: Ati HotKey Poller - ATI Technologies Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
O23 - Service: ATI Smart - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ati2sgag.exe
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O23 - Service: SupportSoft Sprocket Service (dellsupportcenter) (sprtsvc_dellsupportcenter) - SupportSoft, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Dell Support Center\bin\sprtsvc.exe
O23 - Service: stllssvr - MicroVision Development, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\SureThing Shared\stllssvr.exe
O23 - Service: TuneUp Drive Defrag Service (TuneUp.Defrag) - TuneUp Software GmbH - C:\WINDOWS\System32\TuneUpDefragService.exe
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End of file - 8978 bytes
I did defrag my harddrive while I as at work today. So far things are good, but I know that it would freeze up at any time after start up so I'm not excited. My computer was bought in October so maybe the second time? It's something that I tend to procrastinate a lot on, since I'm used to defragmenting something much older. Whether or not it does though I will update.
I did get rid of worthless crap, like my temp files and what was in my recycle bin a few days ago so they're pretty clean.
I don't have another hard drive.
Uh what else.. oh I've always seemed to have too many processes running, even shortly after buying this computer. I haven't the slightest clue why so I'll check google to find out what those belong to.
Thanks though!