Barry Rubin
December 12th 03, 11:16 PM
My WinXP Pro has been fine for over 18 months with almost no problems,
until last night.
Out of the blue, it started to run very, very slowly. Startup was slow,
opening Windows Explorer, running any program, refreshing the desktop,
all were painfully slow to run.
The pc has a few good moments when it runs ok, then this odd behavior
begins again.
I run defrag regularly, Spybot, Ad-Aware, Virus checkers, etc are all
updated and give clean results. Also, I keep my hard disk clean of
junk (temp files, etc.) and do not use indexing. All XP updates are
installed. I rolled back System Restore to a 2-3 day old version,
although this problem only began about 12 hours ago. No new programs or
anything unusual was done for at least 72 hours before this problem
started.
In Task Manager, when the pc runs slow, explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe are
eating up cpu cycles, running 50% or more of my AMD 1900+. When there is
no problem, these programs use 0%.
Suggestions are welcome.
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until last night.
Out of the blue, it started to run very, very slowly. Startup was slow,
opening Windows Explorer, running any program, refreshing the desktop,
all were painfully slow to run.
The pc has a few good moments when it runs ok, then this odd behavior
begins again.
I run defrag regularly, Spybot, Ad-Aware, Virus checkers, etc are all
updated and give clean results. Also, I keep my hard disk clean of
junk (temp files, etc.) and do not use indexing. All XP updates are
installed. I rolled back System Restore to a 2-3 day old version,
although this problem only began about 12 hours ago. No new programs or
anything unusual was done for at least 72 hours before this problem
started.
In Task Manager, when the pc runs slow, explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe are
eating up cpu cycles, running 50% or more of my AMD 1900+. When there is
no problem, these programs use 0%.
Suggestions are welcome.
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