pc slowing down

[walter]

hi guys,

a friend of mine at work has found his PC slowing down,
and can't find out why. Its a P4, so isn't like its
an 'old' machine. I have the similar problem on my old
PC, (windows 98 SE). ie floating mouse over start it
takes a few secs to think about it before anything
happens, or opening a web page it can 'freeze' for up to
10 secs before finally opening.

Are these problems caused by a program, or is something
else the problem?

For the record, both Pc's have been 'cleaned' with a disk
defrag, an adaware check, and virus scan.

Any ideas would be good thanks.

 

[Ramesh]

Walter,

Click Start/Run/MSConfig/Startup tab. Disable all the optional applications
from startup.

Next, tweak the services configuration. More details at www.blackviper.com

--
Regards,
Ramesh
(e-mail address removed)


hi guys,

a friend of mine at work has found his PC slowing down,
and can't find out why. Its a P4, so isn't like its
an 'old' machine. I have the similar problem on my old
PC, (windows 98 SE). ie floating mouse over start it
takes a few secs to think about it before anything
happens, or opening a web page it can 'freeze' for up to
10 secs before finally opening.

Are these problems caused by a program, or is something
else the problem?

For the record, both Pc's have been 'cleaned' with a disk
defrag, an adaware check, and virus scan.

Any ideas would be good thanks.

 

[PA Bear]

Have a thorough read of these two links:

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, etc.
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
(AdAware isn't worth running if you don't seek updates before every use,
even right out of the box. Even AdAware can't catch everything: Try
HijackThis)

IEPLUGIN (aka Intelligent Explorer)
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#ieplugin
(the nastiest of nasties yet, IMHO)
--
IE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser

HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com