Slow Performance

[Rick]

have you tried defraging? Try going to system
configuration in help and support and turn off some
things in startup that are not being used.

>-----Original Message-----
>I installed XP Home w/SP1 on a Dell Dimension 2350 with
a P4 2.2GHz cpu
>and
>128M of RAM. I installed MS Office 2K and Norton
Internet Security 2002
>w/
>Norton Antivirus and all the updates for the apps.
>
>The problem is the PC will be intermittently be slow. I
found the OS is
>running
>a process called "system" with user name of "system" and
is using 99% of
>the
>CPU and uses only 28K of memory. I can't kill the
process because it is
>"system".
>
>I disabled autoupdate and messenger services (didn't
like the new random
>
>popup messages from unknown AH's anyway. <g> Yes I know
about blocking
>"all
>others".)
>
>I'm not sure if that cured the problem, I'm waiting on
feedback from the
>
>users of the PC.
>
>What I really would like to know is what service(s) is
using up all the
>CPU
>time and what I can do to correct it.
>
>Anyone know?
>
>Any enlightenment will be appreciated...
>
>
>.
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