December 12th 03, 06:40 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>My pc runs really slow. I defrag and cleanedup all temp
>files etc... added more memorey. It seems to take
forever
>to do anything. example slow start up, even when i click
>the start button it seems to take forever before it
comes
>up. I'm running windows xp 256 memorey, processor is
fast,
>40 gig hard drive. Help!!!!!!!!!
>.
>
Here is how I fixed my slow XP machine.
I recently went through the same thing on a HP computer
running the Windows XP Home Edition operating Sytem.
Everyone kept telling me it was a hardware problem or a
virus. I was searching this news group and found out that
someone else had a similar problem and was told one of
the XP updates that was downloaded was the problem. It
seems that one of the downloads caused the CPU to run at
100% when there were "certain battery conditions". I
don't know what those conditions were but I went into the
control panel and clicked on "Add & Remove Programs". I
clicked on the bottom "windows XP update" and removed it.
I then went from the bottom to the top and removed all of
the updates one by one until they were all gone. I was
fortunate that I had another machine to run my hard drive
on because this process would have taken days with
the "bad CPU". After I deleted all of the Windows XP
Updates, I put the hard drive back in the original
machine and it still didn't work. ARRGHHH. I then took
out the battery and reinstalled it. From that point on
the machine worked perfectly. Please e-mail me if you
need any more info. I know how frustrating the problem is.
>My pc runs really slow. I defrag and cleanedup all temp
>files etc... added more memorey. It seems to take
forever
>to do anything. example slow start up, even when i click
>the start button it seems to take forever before it
comes
>up. I'm running windows xp 256 memorey, processor is
fast,
>40 gig hard drive. Help!!!!!!!!!
>.
>
Here is how I fixed my slow XP machine.
I recently went through the same thing on a HP computer
running the Windows XP Home Edition operating Sytem.
Everyone kept telling me it was a hardware problem or a
virus. I was searching this news group and found out that
someone else had a similar problem and was told one of
the XP updates that was downloaded was the problem. It
seems that one of the downloads caused the CPU to run at
100% when there were "certain battery conditions". I
don't know what those conditions were but I went into the
control panel and clicked on "Add & Remove Programs". I
clicked on the bottom "windows XP update" and removed it.
I then went from the bottom to the top and removed all of
the updates one by one until they were all gone. I was
fortunate that I had another machine to run my hard drive
on because this process would have taken days with
the "bad CPU". After I deleted all of the Windows XP
Updates, I put the hard drive back in the original
machine and it still didn't work. ARRGHHH. I then took
out the battery and reinstalled it. From that point on
the machine worked perfectly. Please e-mail me if you
need any more info. I know how frustrating the problem is.