I dont know why my new computer is running so slow. I just go a new HP
Pavilion dv 8000 laptop. a few days ago it was running fine. It used to
play music and be able to type things with out freezing periodicly. Ive dl'd
a few anti spy ware programs and i have nortan on my comp. It says i dont
have a virus. Ive defraged. the compter did this a couple of weeks ago. so
i reformated and it ran fine. Now its slowed down again and i dont want to
reformat! I have
windows XP with a turion 64 prosessior. 1gb ram. so i mean it should be
fast. im just kind of stuck, and i dont know what to try next besides
reformat. But ive already done that once and i want to figure out the
problem is. Any sugestion will help!

randyflash wrote:
> I dont know why my new computer is running so slow. I just go a new HP
> Pavilion dv 8000 laptop. a few days ago it was running fine. It used to
> play music and be able to type things with out freezing periodicly. Ive dl'd
> a few anti spy ware programs and i have nortan on my comp. It says i dont
> have a virus. Ive defraged. the compter did this a couple of weeks ago. so
> i reformated and it ran fine. Now its slowed down again and i dont want to
> reformat! I have
> windows XP with a turion 64 prosessior. 1gb ram. so i mean it should be
> fast. im just kind of stuck, and i dont know what to try next besides
> reformat. But ive already done that once and i want to figure out the
> problem is. Any sugestion will help!
>
Hi Randy,

It would be hard to answer your question without knowing what
software you run and what processes are running when your computer
slows down.

The first thing I would do is download Process Explorer to monitor
what is eating up your cpu time. Second, I would check to see if any
of the programs I am using have memory leaks. My browser of choice
is FireFox, and the size of the process and cpu time increase as the
day wears on. When I start to notice a lag, I close FireFox go into
Task Manager and end the FireFox process (for some odd reason the
process does not shut down when you exit FireFox) then restart
FireFox I notice an increase in performance right away.

For the record, I also have a HP dv8000, and I normally have 76
processes running all the time including listening to music off the
hard disk (DISK:1) or streaming from XMRadio.

Hope this helps you sort out your performance problem.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

"When hope is lost . . . the spirit dies."
-- Lao Tzu

http://blog.tlerma.com/

Ok using the process explorer it says that hardware interrupts is using a
lot. I dont know what that is but thats probably what's slowing my computer
down. how do i fix this?

"C.Joseph Drayton" wrote:

> randyflash wrote:
> > I dont know why my new computer is running so slow. I just go a new HP
> > Pavilion dv 8000 laptop. a few days ago it was running fine. It used to
> > play music and be able to type things with out freezing periodicly. Ive dl'd
> > a few anti spy ware programs and i have nortan on my comp. It says i dont
> > have a virus. Ive defraged. the compter did this a couple of weeks ago. so
> > i reformated and it ran fine. Now its slowed down again and i dont want to
> > reformat! I have
> > windows XP with a turion 64 prosessior. 1gb ram. so i mean it should be
> > fast. im just kind of stuck, and i dont know what to try next besides
> > reformat. But ive already done that once and i want to figure out the
> > problem is. Any sugestion will help!
> >
> Hi Randy,
>
> It would be hard to answer your question without knowing what
> software you run and what processes are running when your computer
> slows down.
>
> The first thing I would do is download Process Explorer to monitor
> what is eating up your cpu time. Second, I would check to see if any
> of the programs I am using have memory leaks. My browser of choice
> is FireFox, and the size of the process and cpu time increase as the
> day wears on. When I start to notice a lag, I close FireFox go into
> Task Manager and end the FireFox process (for some odd reason the
> process does not shut down when you exit FireFox) then restart
> FireFox I notice an increase in performance right away.
>
> For the record, I also have a HP dv8000, and I normally have 76
> processes running all the time including listening to music off the
> hard disk (DISK:1) or streaming from XMRadio.
>
> Hope this helps you sort out your performance problem.
>
> Ciao . . . C.Joseph
>
> "When hope is lost . . . the spirit dies."
> -- Lao Tzu
>
> http://blog.tlerma.com/
>

Possibly bad drivers loaded for a device or the optical drive is having
transfer errors and is running in PIO mode. Check out this thread found
here...

http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_...=965&KW=spikes

Also you may try running a good check for spyware and viruses using Trend
Micro's house call and Prevx

Trend Micro Housecall online malware scan
http://housecall65.trendmicro.com

Download, install and run Prevx1
http://www.prevx.com/infected.asp

Good Luck,

Joe

Kemco IT Tech

"randyflash" wrote:

> Ok using the process explorer it says that hardware interrupts is using a
> lot. I dont know what that is but thats probably what's slowing my computer
> down. how do i fix this?
>
> "C.Joseph Drayton" wrote:
>
> > randyflash wrote:
> > > I dont know why my new computer is running so slow. I just go a new HP
> > > Pavilion dv 8000 laptop. a few days ago it was running fine. It used to
> > > play music and be able to type things with out freezing periodicly. Ive dl'd
> > > a few anti spy ware programs and i have nortan on my comp. It says i dont
> > > have a virus. Ive defraged. the compter did this a couple of weeks ago. so
> > > i reformated and it ran fine. Now its slowed down again and i dont want to
> > > reformat! I have
> > > windows XP with a turion 64 prosessior. 1gb ram. so i mean it should be
> > > fast. im just kind of stuck, and i dont know what to try next besides
> > > reformat. But ive already done that once and i want to figure out the
> > > problem is. Any sugestion will help!
> > >
> > Hi Randy,
> >
> > It would be hard to answer your question without knowing what
> > software you run and what processes are running when your computer
> > slows down.
> >
> > The first thing I would do is download Process Explorer to monitor
> > what is eating up your cpu time. Second, I would check to see if any
> > of the programs I am using have memory leaks. My browser of choice
> > is FireFox, and the size of the process and cpu time increase as the
> > day wears on. When I start to notice a lag, I close FireFox go into
> > Task Manager and end the FireFox process (for some odd reason the
> > process does not shut down when you exit FireFox) then restart
> > FireFox I notice an increase in performance right away.
> >
> > For the record, I also have a HP dv8000, and I normally have 76
> > processes running all the time including listening to music off the
> > hard disk (DISK:1) or streaming from XMRadio.
> >
> > Hope this helps you sort out your performance problem.
> >
> > Ciao . . . C.Joseph
> >
> > "When hope is lost . . . the spirit dies."
> > -- Lao Tzu
> >
> > http://blog.tlerma.com/
> >

It would be great if you can specify what you mean by slow. Is it slow at
opening programs or playing games. Is it slow at startup?

From what I can gather here, you might have too many programs installed at
startup which could be slowing things down a bit. As any running program uses
some process time and ram.

"randyflash" wrote:

> I dont know why my new computer is running so slow. I just go a new HP
> Pavilion dv 8000 laptop. a few days ago it was running fine. It used to
> play music and be able to type things with out freezing periodicly. Ive dl'd
> a few anti spy ware programs and i have nortan on my comp. It says i dont
> have a virus. Ive defraged. the compter did this a couple of weeks ago. so
> i reformated and it ran fine. Now its slowed down again and i dont want to
> reformat! I have
> windows XP with a turion 64 prosessior. 1gb ram. so i mean it should be
> fast. im just kind of stuck, and i dont know what to try next besides
> reformat. But ive already done that once and i want to figure out the
> problem is. Any sugestion will help!
>