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System Slowing Down. Any Suggestions.
Windows XP, SP2. I have a system that has been running fine for a few years.
It has a 3 GHz processor and 4 GB of memory. Recently everything is running much slower. Programs open up very slowly, some Excel workbooks with macros run interminably long. Internet browsing is slow. The LAN is fine, as I can go to another system and it runs the same processes and browses the net quickly. I have scanned for spyware and viruses and removed spyware and found no viruses. What can cause a system to bog down like this? Any suggestions on how I can restore the system to its former vigor? Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org |
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When I am running an Excel workbook (which runs macro code that opens and
scans other workbooks), I find the following when monitoring system performance: CPU usage never goes above 4% Network usage never goes above 0.02% (on a 1 GB network) PF Usage never goes above 853 MB Physical Memory available never goes below 2620124 It looks like the resources are fine. So what would cause a SLOW system (the Excel process that used to take 40 seconds to complete now takes over 5 minutes). -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "Chaplain Doug" wrote: Windows XP, SP2. I have a system that has been running fine for a few years. It has a 3 GHz processor and 4 GB of memory. Recently everything is running much slower. Programs open up very slowly, some Excel workbooks with macros run interminably long. Internet browsing is slow. The LAN is fine, as I can go to another system and it runs the same processes and browses the net quickly. I have scanned for spyware and viruses and removed spyware and found no viruses. What can cause a system to bog down like this? Any suggestions on how I can restore the system to its former vigor? Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org |
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Chaplain Doug wrote:
When I am running an Excel workbook (which runs macro code that opens and scans other workbooks), I find the following when monitoring system performance: CPU usage never goes above 4% Network usage never goes above 0.02% (on a 1 GB network) PF Usage never goes above 853 MB Physical Memory available never goes below 2620124 It looks like the resources are fine. So what would cause a SLOW system (the Excel process that used to take 40 seconds to complete now takes over 5 minutes). Windows XP, SP2. I have a system that has been running fine for a few years. It has a 3 GHz processor and 4 GB of memory. Recently everything is running much slower. Programs open up very slowly, some Excel workbooks with macros run interminably long. Internet browsing is slow. The LAN is fine, as I can go to another system and it runs the same processes and browses the net quickly. I have scanned for spyware and viruses and removed spyware and found no viruses. What can cause a system to bog down like this? Any suggestions on how I can restore the system to its former vigor? Thanks for the help. -- The list of possibilities is almost endless. It could be that the mother ship has directed your computer to send 250,000 emails advertising headless nails or some other innovative product. You should first scour you system for malware. |
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I have done a complete scan with Symantec Antivirus and with Ad-Aware. The
Symantec found nothing. the Ada-Aware found quite a few non-critical items which have now been removed. The system is still slow. What else could I use to find MalWare? -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "HeyBub" wrote: Chaplain Doug wrote: When I am running an Excel workbook (which runs macro code that opens and scans other workbooks), I find the following when monitoring system performance: CPU usage never goes above 4% Network usage never goes above 0.02% (on a 1 GB network) PF Usage never goes above 853 MB Physical Memory available never goes below 2620124 It looks like the resources are fine. So what would cause a SLOW system (the Excel process that used to take 40 seconds to complete now takes over 5 minutes). Windows XP, SP2. I have a system that has been running fine for a few years. It has a 3 GHz processor and 4 GB of memory. Recently everything is running much slower. Programs open up very slowly, some Excel workbooks with macros run interminably long. Internet browsing is slow. The LAN is fine, as I can go to another system and it runs the same processes and browses the net quickly. I have scanned for spyware and viruses and removed spyware and found no viruses. What can cause a system to bog down like this? Any suggestions on how I can restore the system to its former vigor? Thanks for the help. -- The list of possibilities is almost endless. It could be that the mother ship has directed your computer to send 250,000 emails advertising headless nails or some other innovative product. You should first scour you system for malware. |
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"Chaplain Doug" wrote in message
... I have done a complete scan with Symantec Antivirus and with Ad-Aware. The Symantec found nothing. the Ada-Aware found quite a few non-critical items which have now been removed. The system is still slow. That's not a thorough check for malware. Do a thorough check for malware, following all of the steps at one of these Web pages. Help with malwa All MS-MVP Sites. http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/darnit.html http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315 So How Did I Get Infected Anyway? For quite a few people it's by installing programs like Messenger Plus, whose ads for malware don't identify the malware as such and try to convince you that you owe it to the author. See also: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=27971 Don't ever do a "default" install of anything. Always choose Custom and see what else is being carried along. Don't install any extras you're not sure of. -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM Reply in Newsgroup, not by email. |
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