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Frank Giantonio
April 25th 03, 01:49 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a pentium 4, 2.53GHZ, 384 MB Ram PC with 9% of
the
>hard drive in use and just recently in the last couple
of
>weeks my PC is running much slower. I am having to wait
>so much longer for an application to start when an icon
>is clicked etc... The problems seem to have started
since
>I installed some critical windows updates and other
>updates, noteably DirectX 9.0a. I have tried defraging
>the hard drive, using disk clean-up and scaning for
>errors using Norton Anti-virus all with no success in
>regaining my original speed. I cant use system restore
to
>roll back to a good point since I dont have the relevant
>restore points available, only the most recent. Task
>manager indicates that I am always well within my
systems
>limitations and that I have more than enough RAM etc
>available to use. Please help as it very frustrating. My
>Dads windows 95 is currently faster.
>Many Thanks
>Justin
>.
>Mine Too !
What has MS done ? That fix turned my PC into a slug.
I've gone through all the same stuff...defrag,
performance options, new swap file... this is a Microsoft
sponsored worm....
They need to fix this now !

Donald L McDaniel
April 25th 03, 03:54 PM
In article >,
says...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have a pentium 4, 2.53GHZ, 384 MB Ram PC with 9% of
> the
> >hard drive in use and just recently in the last couple
> of
> >weeks my PC is running much slower. I am having to wait
> >so much longer for an application to start when an icon
> >is clicked etc... The problems seem to have started
> since
> >I installed some critical windows updates and other
> >updates, noteably DirectX 9.0a. I have tried defraging
> >the hard drive, using disk clean-up and scaning for
> >errors using Norton Anti-virus all with no success in
> >regaining my original speed. I cant use system restore
> to
> >roll back to a good point since I dont have the relevant
> >restore points available, only the most recent. Task
> >manager indicates that I am always well within my
> systems
> >limitations and that I have more than enough RAM etc
> >available to use. Please help as it very frustrating. My
> >Dads windows 95 is currently faster.
> >Many Thanks
> >Justin
> >.
> >Mine Too !
> What has MS done ? That fix turned my PC into a slug.
> I've gone through all the same stuff...defrag,
> performance options, new swap file... this is a Microsoft
> sponsored worm....
> They need to fix this now !
>
Instead of complaining about it, just UNINSTALL Q811493!!!

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