Windows freezing causing it to run very slow

Ok, it may sound weird, but the best way I can describe my problem with
Windows XP is as following: It freezes and starts to work again many times
per second.

This gives the following symptoms of this kind of "windows-sickness":

* When playing ANY sound on the system, playing sounds like coming from
under water, because it stops and restarts many times per second, causing ANY
sound to take about 4 times as long to play.

*System is also about 4 times as slow, exept when using the hard disk, it is
even much slower.


The problem started after I had to REINSTALL windows because of a totally
different problem. The system worked fine for som days, then one day it
suddenly had gone totally slow. It was really suddenly.

The windows has very few, and only trusted program installed. It should be
healthy, due to newly reinstallment of Windows XP.

To try solve the problem I have done as following:

* I have run really heavy defragmentation of the hard disk, using a special
tool, so as to get windows have easy access to all files.

* Used a program called "Advanced Windows Care 2 Professional" to get rid of
any problem with Registery, startup items, spyware and security. It reports
to have found and fixed all problems.

Still this problem continue.

I have an Acer Aspire Computer, Intel Core Duo T2050 1.6 GHz, 1 GB DDR2 RAM,
120 GB HDD wich has lots of free space.


The CPU usage is almost constant very low, so the problem is not here.

The page file is at 1024 MB. I have tried different sizes, but it does not
affect the performance. Number of processes, 76, none are untrusted.

To put the symptoms this problem has on me: it drives me crazy, sorry.

Hope anyone can help.

Thank you for any help...

Please tell if this is not the right forum.

I have read that it can help to remove messenger live and msn, because they
are not stable programs, so now i have removed these program.

But the problems is still unsolved.

Another symptom I didn't mention is that when windows desktop and its icons
are finished loading, the system comletely freezes for 2 - 3 minutes. I can
move the cursor thou, but I can't start any programs. After the freeze, the
icons on status bar besides the clock starts to load, and I can then get
programs to start.

Beside this, the problems mentioned in the last posting remains.

Hope someone can help.

Thank you.

Advanced Windows Care 2 Professional could be the problem. These type
of product camn have the opposite affect to what you would like. If it
was supposed to clean up your start-up then having 76 running
processes is a strange outcome. The optimising option and it's messing
with the registry are potentiall likely to cause problems.

Look in the system and application logs for Warning and Error Reports
in Event Viewer for the last boot and post copies here. Disregard
Information Reports.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.
Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the
message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

Your 76 processes should be above or below 50. Install and run
HijackThis:
Download HijackThis (Freeware)
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/

This programme produces a list of running process which you can post
here. Please do not post the remainder as this part is intended for
detecting malware and it is customary to post these to a specialist
forum for analysis.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~





pinon wrote:
Please tell if this is not the right forum.

I have read that it can help to remove messenger live and msn,
because they are not stable programs, so now i have removed these
program.

But the problems is still unsolved.

Another symptom I didn't mention is that when windows desktop and
its icons are finished loading, the system comletely freezes for
2 - 3 minutes. I can move the cursor thou, but I can't start any
programs. After the freeze, the icons on status bar besides the
clock starts to load, and I can then get programs to start.

Beside this, the problems mentioned in the last posting remains.

Hope someone can help.

Thank you.

"Gerry Cornell" wrote:


Advanced Windows Care 2 Professional could be the problem. These type
of product camn have the opposite affect to what you would like. If it
was supposed to clean up your start-up then having 76 running
processes is a strange outcome. The optimising option and it's messing
with the registry are potentiall likely to cause problems.

Look in the system and application logs for Warning and Error Reports
in Event Viewer for the last boot and post copies here. Disregard
Information Reports.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.
Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the
message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

Your 76 processes should be above or below 50. Install and run
HijackThis:
Download HijackThis (Freeware)
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/

This programme produces a list of running process which you can post
here. Please do not post the remainder as this part is intended for
detecting malware and it is customary to post these to a specialist
forum for analysis.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~





pinon wrote:
Please tell if this is not the right forum.

I have read that it can help to remove messenger live and msn,
because they are not stable programs, so now i have removed these
program.

But the problems is still unsolved.

Another symptom I didn't mention is that when windows desktop and
its icons are finished loading, the system comletely freezes for
2 - 3 minutes. I can move the cursor thou, but I can't start any
programs. After the freeze, the icons on status bar besides the
clock starts to load, and I can then get programs to start.

Beside this, the problems mentioned in the last posting remains.

Hope someone can help.

Thank you.

"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

Your 76 processes should be above or below 50. Install and run
HijackThis:
Download HijackThis (Freeware)
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/

Pinon:

When trying to install this program I recieve this error message:
"The program cannot start because MSVBVM60.DLL does not exist".
Do you know how to get the file and where to install it?


Thank you!

Sorry, one of my threads did not got right on the server.

I have to write once more...

Here are the postings you asked for...

Hendelsestype: Advarsel
Hendelseskilde: Userenv
Hendelseskategori: Ingen
Hendelses-ID: 1517
Dato: 09.02.2007
Klokkeslett: 20:24:17
Bruker: NT-MYNDIGHET\SYSTEM
Datamaskin: BIRGIT-LAPTOP
Beskrivelse:
Windows lagret registeret for bruker BIRGIT-LAPTOP\Birgit Tangstad mens et
program eller en tjeneste brukte registeret under avlogging. Minnet brukt av
brukerens register er ikke frigitt. Registeret vil bli lastet ut når det ikke
lenger er i bruk.

Dette skyldes ofte at tjenester kjører som en brukerkonto. Prøv å
konfigurere tjenesten til å kjøre i enten LokalTjeneste- eller
NettverksTjeneste-kontoen.

Hvis du vil ha mer informasjon, se Hjelp og støtte på
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.



Hendelsestype: Feil
Hendelseskilde: PerfNet
Hendelseskategori: Ingen
Hendelses-ID: 2004
Dato: 09.02.2007
Klokkeslett: 20:28:16
Bruker: I/T
Datamaskin: BIRGIT-LAPTOP
Beskrivelse:
Kan ikke åpne servertjenesten. Ytelsesdata for server vil ikke bli
returnert. Den returnerte feilkoden er i data DWORD 0.

Hvis du vil ha mer informasjon, se Hjelp og støtte på
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 34 00 00 c0 4..À



Gerry Cornell 2/8/2007 8:55 AM PST
Advanced Windows Care 2 Professional could be the problem.


Advanced Windows Care is not the problem, due to it was installed after the
problem begun, and was installed because I wanted to solve this problem. But
it did not fix this problem.


Thank you for your help

pinon

"pinon" wrote:

Sorry, one of my threads did not got right on the server.

I have to write once more...

Here are the postings you asked for...

Hendelsestype: Advarsel
Hendelseskilde: Userenv
Hendelseskategori: Ingen
Hendelses-ID: 1517
Dato: 09.02.2007
Klokkeslett: 20:24:17
Bruker: NT-MYNDIGHET\SYSTEM
Datamaskin: BIRGIT-LAPTOP
Beskrivelse:
Windows lagret registeret for bruker BIRGIT-LAPTOP\Birgit Tangstad mens et
program eller en tjeneste brukte registeret under avlogging. Minnet brukt av
brukerens register er ikke frigitt. Registeret vil bli lastet ut når det ikke
lenger er i bruk.

Dette skyldes ofte at tjenester kjører som en brukerkonto. Prøv å
konfigurere tjenesten til å kjøre i enten LokalTjeneste- eller
NettverksTjeneste-kontoen.

Hvis du vil ha mer informasjon, se Hjelp og støtte på
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.



Hendelsestype: Feil
Hendelseskilde: PerfNet
Hendelseskategori: Ingen
Hendelses-ID: 2004
Dato: 09.02.2007
Klokkeslett: 20:28:16
Bruker: I/T
Datamaskin: BIRGIT-LAPTOP
Beskrivelse:
Kan ikke åpne servertjenesten. Ytelsesdata for server vil ikke bli
returnert. Den returnerte feilkoden er i data DWORD 0.

Hvis du vil ha mer informasjon, se Hjelp og støtte på
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 34 00 00 c0 4..À



Gerry Cornell 2/8/2007 8:55 AM PST
Advanced Windows Care 2 Professional could be the problem.


Advanced Windows Care is not the problem, due to it was installed after the
problem begun, and was installed because I wanted to solve this problem. But
it did not fix this problem.


Thank you for your help

pinon


I don't know if this error reports is of intrest in this case, but I post
them, just in... eh... case:

Hendelsestype: Feil
Hendelseskilde: Service Control Manager
Hendelseskategori: Ingen
Hendelses-ID: 7000
Dato: 09.02.2007
Klokkeslett: 20:32:25
Bruker: I/T
Datamaskin: BIRGIT-LAPTOP
Beskrivelse:
Tjenesten IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service kan ikke startes på grunn av følgende
feil:
Tjenesten svarte ikke på start- eller kontrollforespørselen innenfor
tidsrammen.

Hvis du vil ha mer informasjon, se Hjelp og støtte på
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.



You perhaps may want me to transelate som of this texts?



Thank you!

For Event ID: 1517

Download and install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
Download details: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
http://snipurl.com/5b61

UPHClean v1.5e readme.txt
http://snipurl.com/ko8m

I do not know too much about Event ID 2004 but have you tried the User
Action recommended. What was the result?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sup...et&LCID=103 3

Can you please tell me which languare the error messages are written
in. I could possibly find out but it would be simpler not to have to
try.


--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


pinon wrote:
"pinon" wrote:

Sorry, one of my threads did not got right on the server.

I have to write once more...

Here are the postings you asked for...

Hendelsestype: Advarsel
Hendelseskilde: Userenv
Hendelseskategori: Ingen
Hendelses-ID: 1517
Dato: 09.02.2007
Klokkeslett: 20:24:17
Bruker: NT-MYNDIGHET\SYSTEM
Datamaskin: BIRGIT-LAPTOP
Beskrivelse:
Windows lagret registeret for bruker BIRGIT-LAPTOP\Birgit
Tangstad mens et program eller en tjeneste brukte registeret
under avlogging. Minnet brukt av brukerens register er ikke
frigitt. Registeret vil bli lastet ut når det ikke lenger er i
bruk.

Dette skyldes ofte at tjenester kjører som en brukerkonto. Prøv
å konfigurere tjenesten til å kjøre i enten LokalTjeneste- eller
NettverksTjeneste-kontoen.

Hvis du vil ha mer informasjon, se Hjelp og støtte på
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.



Hendelsestype: Feil
Hendelseskilde: PerfNet
Hendelseskategori: Ingen
Hendelses-ID: 2004
Dato: 09.02.2007
Klokkeslett: 20:28:16
Bruker: I/T
Datamaskin: BIRGIT-LAPTOP
Beskrivelse:
Kan ikke åpne servertjenesten. Ytelsesdata for server vil ikke
bli returnert. Den returnerte feilkoden er i data DWORD 0.

Hvis du vil ha mer informasjon, se Hjelp og støtte på
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 34 00 00 c0 4..À

"Gerry Cornell" wrote:


Advanced Windows Care 2 Professional could be the problem. These type
of product camn have the opposite affect to what you would like. If it
was supposed to clean up your start-up then having 76 running
processes is a strange outcome. The optimising option and it's messing
with the registry are potentiall likely to cause problems.

Look in the system and application logs for Warning and Error Reports
in Event Viewer for the last boot and post copies here. Disregard
Information Reports.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.
Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the
message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

Your 76 processes should be above or below 50. Install and run
HijackThis:
Download HijackThis (Freeware)
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/

This programme produces a list of running process which you can post
here. Please do not post the remainder as this part is intended for
detecting malware and it is customary to post these to a specialist
forum for analysis.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~





pinon wrote:
Please tell if this is not the right forum.

I have read that it can help to remove messenger live and msn,
because they are not stable programs, so now i have removed these
program.

But the problems is still unsolved.

Another symptom I didn't mention is that when windows desktop and
its icons are finished loading, the system comletely freezes for
2 - 3 minutes. I can move the cursor thou, but I can't start any
programs. After the freeze, the icons on status bar besides the
clock starts to load, and I can then get programs to start.

Beside this, the problems mentioned in the last posting remains.

Hope someone can help.

Thank you.
Beverly Smith
It sounds like your drivers have become unstable. To restore your basic divers back to it's original state you can do this. It should help out some. Click start - run - then type all of these drivers one at a time and wait for each to confirm of each reload.
REGSVR32 softpub.dll
REGSVR32 wintrust.dll
REGSVR32 Rsaenh.dll
REGSVR32 Mssip32.dll
REGSVR32 Cryptdlg.dll
REGSVR32 Dssenh.dll
REGSVR32 Gpkcsp.dll
REGSVR32 Slbcsp.dll
REGSVR32 Sccbase.dll
REGSVR32 initpki.dll
Hopefully this will help with your problem. If I can be of any other help :
(Beverly)

I had a very similar problem with my new ACER Travelmate 4070 runnning
MS XP Pro.

I started Task Manager and with a lot (like A LOT) of persistence and
patience, eventually identified that my machine was running a process
named QtZgAcer.exe

When I searched on the web, I found a number of forum/discussion board
entries that stated that this file appeared to be causing Acer
machines of all vintages to "hang". This file relates to the Acer
Launch Manager which I think allows configuration of the soft function
keys (also known as programmable function keys).

The workaround on a couple of these forums was to uninstall Acer
Launch Manager.

Since I did that last week, I have not had any problems. I will wait a
few more days/weeks before I can be absolutely sure that the "hanging"
problem has gone away.

BTW - I wrote to Acer tech support at the Acer site and have had
absolutely no response. Not even so much as a "thank you for
contacting Acer support"!!!! Someone at work did recommend that I did
not buy an Acer..... maybe I will live to regret the decision.

You could try uninstalling Acer Launch Manager if you do not use the
soft function keys. At worst, you could re-install the software later
if you want to.

I had this same problem happen to my computer a few days ago. I was able to
slove it by going to run, typing msconfig, and choosing a selective startup
that unloaded the start up programs. Now my computer is working better than
it has for months. (If you want you can add them back one at a time to see
which one might be causing your problems.)

You might also try F-8 ing your computer when it starts up and then choosing
the last time my computer worked correctly option. (Another option is to use
the system restore program)

Any of these options would be better for you than to start deleting a bunch
of programs that might not be the one causing your problems.

You might also have, gulp, a defective hard drive. You should be able to
check this by right clicking the MY Computer button on your desktop and
selecitng the manage computer button. Check the section disk storage and
then disk management.

You can find a good article about some of these suggestions here.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...storeperf.mspx

Since you had to restore you op-sys, another suggestion is that you make
sure you have all the drivers you need installed and up to date.

I hope this helps you.


"pinon" wrote:

Ok, it may sound weird, but the best way I can describe my problem with
Windows XP is as following: It freezes and starts to work again many times
per second.

This gives the following symptoms of this kind of "windows-sickness":

* When playing ANY sound on the system, playing sounds like coming from
under water, because it stops and restarts many times per second, causing ANY
sound to take about 4 times as long to play.

*System is also about 4 times as slow, exept when using the hard disk, it is
even much slower.


The problem started after I had to REINSTALL windows because of a totally
different problem. The system worked fine for som days, then one day it
suddenly had gone totally slow. It was really suddenly.

The windows has very few, and only trusted program installed. It should be
healthy, due to newly reinstallment of Windows XP.

To try solve the problem I have done as following:

* I have run really heavy defragmentation of the hard disk, using a special
tool, so as to get windows have easy access to all files.

* Used a program called "Advanced Windows Care 2 Professional" to get rid of
any problem with Registery, startup items, spyware and security. It reports
to have found and fixed all problems.

Still this problem continue.

I have an Acer Aspire Computer, Intel Core Duo T2050 1.6 GHz, 1 GB DDR2 RAM,
120 GB HDD wich has lots of free space.


The CPU usage is almost constant very low, so the problem is not here.

The page file is at 1024 MB. I have tried different sizes, but it does not
affect the performance. Number of processes, 76, none are untrusted.

To put the symptoms this problem has on me: it drives me crazy, sorry.

Hope anyone can help.

Thank you for any help...

Thank you for your suggestions.


Actually, its not my own computer, but my mums, which has this problems.

Therefore, at this moment I have not much time for time-consuming
operations, but I will try them one by one when I get enought time.

I think the procedyre of choosing a selective startup are going to take
several of hours, trying unlash the problem, whith no guaranty of fixing it
of course. So if there are no easy ways to fix this problems, I will try
this. I am happy you shared this option, and if I must try it, I will post
the results here

I don't think it is a hardware failure, because I now have installed Linux
Ubuntu as a dual start up option. Linux runs without problems and without any
delays. So I will advise my mother to consider using Linux, if she runs short
of patiens with the Windows. As long as this problem is not solved.

I don't feel so much about installing windows once more, since I have just
done so. I may perhaps find the Windows going back to exactly the same state
as now.

When I get some time to spear thou, I will try follow your suggestions!

I will follow your suggestion by trying to run the disk management.



Thanks!

"Hunterprometheus" wrote:

I had this same problem happen to my computer a few days ago. I was able to
slove it by going to run, typing msconfig, and choosing a selective startup
that unloaded the start up programs. Now my computer is working better than
it has for months. (If you want you can add them back one at a time to see
which one might be causing your problems.)

You might also try F-8 ing your computer when it starts up and then choosing
the last time my computer worked correctly option. (Another option is to use
the system restore program)

Any of these options would be better for you than to start deleting a bunch
of programs that might not be the one causing your problems.

You might also have, gulp, a defective hard drive. You should be able to
check this by right clicking the MY Computer button on your desktop and
selecitng the manage computer button. Check the section disk storage and
then disk management.

You can find a good article about some of these suggestions here.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...storeperf.mspx

Since you had to restore you op-sys, another suggestion is that you make
sure you have all the drivers you need installed and up to date.

I hope this helps you.


"pinon" wrote:

Ok, it may sound weird, but the best way I can describe my problem with
Windows XP is as following: It freezes and starts to work again many times
per second.

This gives the following symptoms of this kind of "windows-sickness":

* When playing ANY sound on the system, playing sounds like coming from
under water, because it stops and restarts many times per second, causing ANY
sound to take about 4 times as long to play.

*System is also about 4 times as slow, exept when using the hard disk, it is
even much slower.


The problem started after I had to REINSTALL windows because of a totally
different problem. The system worked fine for som days, then one day it
suddenly had gone totally slow. It was really suddenly.

The windows has very few, and only trusted program installed. It should be
healthy, due to newly reinstallment of Windows XP.

To try solve the problem I have done as following:

* I have run really heavy defragmentation of the hard disk, using a special
tool, so as to get windows have easy access to all files.

* Used a program called "Advanced Windows Care 2 Professional" to get rid of
any problem with Registery, startup items, spyware and security. It reports
to have found and fixed all problems.

Still this problem continue.

I have an Acer Aspire Computer, Intel Core Duo T2050 1.6 GHz, 1 GB DDR2 RAM,
120 GB HDD wich has lots of free space.


The CPU usage is almost constant very low, so the problem is not here.

The page file is at 1024 MB. I have tried different sizes, but it does not
affect the performance. Number of processes, 76, none are untrusted.

To put the symptoms this problem has on me: it drives me crazy, sorry.

Hope anyone can help.

Thank you for any help...

I am having the same problem with my PC... but i have found a very strange
process in the Task manager it only says Inactive system process and the
usage of the CPU is at time at 99 I previusly tried to terminate it but the
system dosn´t allow me to do it. When I right click it .... it does not
display the common option any help would be very apreciated thanks.

"pinon" wrote:

Ok, it may sound weird, but the best way I can describe my problem with
Windows XP is as following: It freezes and starts to work again many times
per second.

This gives the following symptoms of this kind of "windows-sickness":

* When playing ANY sound on the system, playing sounds like coming from
under water, because it stops and restarts many times per second, causing ANY
sound to take about 4 times as long to play.

*System is also about 4 times as slow, exept when using the hard disk, it is
even much slower.


The problem started after I had to REINSTALL windows because of a totally
different problem. The system worked fine for som days, then one day it
suddenly had gone totally slow. It was really suddenly.

The windows has very few, and only trusted program installed. It should be
healthy, due to newly reinstallment of Windows XP.

To try solve the problem I have done as following:

* I have run really heavy defragmentation of the hard disk, using a special
tool, so as to get windows have easy access to all files.

* Used a program called "Advanced Windows Care 2 Professional" to get rid of
any problem with Registery, startup items, spyware and security. It reports
to have found and fixed all problems.

Still this problem continue.

I have an Acer Aspire Computer, Intel Core Duo T2050 1.6 GHz, 1 GB DDR2 RAM,
120 GB HDD wich has lots of free space.


The CPU usage is almost constant very low, so the problem is not here.

The page file is at 1024 MB. I have tried different sizes, but it does not
affect the performance. Number of processes, 76, none are untrusted.

To put the symptoms this problem has on me: it drives me crazy, sorry.

Hope anyone can help.

Thank you for any help...