XP Pro suddenly very slow

[Chcuk Bagley]

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi there!
>
>Please can somebody tell me what's happened to my
>computer? Yesterday, suddenly in the middle of writing a
>Word-document, my computer went dead slow. I have XP
Pro,
>512 MB, 120 GB Maxtor HD, Geforce MX 440, Hauppauge
>WinTV.
>
>Outlook takes about 60 seconds to open, Power VCR almost
>2 minutes. To surf Internet is really a pain, Explorer
>takes about minute and a half to open my locally stored
>home page, and when I click a link, Explorer freezes for
>about 40-60 seconds. To record video using WinTV card
and
>Power VCR program is OK, but when playing the clip it
>jumps over major part of the frames so that it is
>impossible to watch.
>
>Any good ideas? Or do I have to format and instaal, once
>again?
>
>Greetings from Finland, LARRY
>.
>I have just spent 3 hours using S & D [Search & Destroy]
to solve the same problem. I disconnected everything
except monitor, keyboard and mouse turned off the
computer and changed the outlet for the power cord and
this resolved the problem.

Go Gators.

Chuck

[Peter Wilkins]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:47:13 -0700, "Chcuk Bagley"
> wrote :

>>Please can somebody tell me what's happened to my=20
>>computer? Yesterday, suddenly in the middle of writing a=20
>>Word-document, my computer went dead slow. I have XP=20

>>>I have just spent 3 hours using S & D [Search & Destroy]
>to solve the same problem. I disconnected everything=20
>except monitor, keyboard and mouse turned off the=20
>computer and changed the outlet for the power cord and=20
>this resolved the problem.
>

Ahah! =20
I bet it was changing the power cord outlet that fixed it!
--=20
Regards,
Peter Wilkins

[Jim H.]

Hard to say what could have occurred here without more info. If this occurs
again (I assume this went away after a reboot?), open the Task Manager
(either right click on the application bar and choose "Task Manager" from
the menu or CTL-ALT-DEL and choose Task Manager from the security dialog)
click on the "Processes" tab and see which process is eating up all your
CPU. Something probably got kicked off that was really hitting your CPU
hard. If you can identify that, then that'll go a long way in determining
what your problem was.

--
Jim Hong
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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"Chcuk Bagley" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi there!
> >
> >Please can somebody tell me what's happened to my
> >computer? Yesterday, suddenly in the middle of writing a
> >Word-document, my computer went dead slow. I have XP
> Pro,
> >512 MB, 120 GB Maxtor HD, Geforce MX 440, Hauppauge
> >WinTV.
> >
> >Outlook takes about 60 seconds to open, Power VCR almost
> >2 minutes. To surf Internet is really a pain, Explorer
> >takes about minute and a half to open my locally stored
> >home page, and when I click a link, Explorer freezes for
> >about 40-60 seconds. To record video using WinTV card
> and
> >Power VCR program is OK, but when playing the clip it
> >jumps over major part of the frames so that it is
> >impossible to watch.
> >
> >Any good ideas? Or do I have to format and instaal, once
> >again?
> >
> >Greetings from Finland, LARRY
> >.
> >I have just spent 3 hours using S & D [Search & Destroy]
> to solve the same problem. I disconnected everything
> except monitor, keyboard and mouse turned off the
> computer and changed the outlet for the power cord and
> this resolved the problem.
>
> Go Gators.
>
> Chuck