question about xp d recovery drive

[tjb]

i have xp home sp2 up to date
hp pavillion.
ive been having very slow and halting performance and heve had difficulties
with some programs.
ive done numerous anti-virus scans and malware scans with avg, defender,
spybot, spysweeper, counterspy and have found nothing. my scan time over the
past week or so went from 3:20 to 6 hours for a total scan of my entire
computer.

i have 71 gb of space on c drive of which 33% is used.
i have 5.27 gb total space on my hp d recovery drive, with 85% used.

one of my avg scans of my d drive caused spysweeper to quarantine a ps2 bug
from d drive. now it seems to keep showing up during scans of d drive.

is it normal to have so much of d recovery drive filled?
it use to take only a few minutes to scan it now it takes an hour or more.

thanks.

 

[Unknown]

Have you run disk cleanup recently?

 

[tjb]

yes i defragged and ran disk cleanup.
it told me i had 126 kbs that can be cleaned off of my computer.
thanks.

 

[JS]

It could be a sub-process or application that's running in the background
and taking all
the CPU resources, which could be the cause of your PC running slow.

To find and display what could be the problem try Process Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower
Pane' options.
Then expand the process named 'Explorer' (click on the + sign)
In the column on the left named 'CPU', look for any high CPU usage.
Next click on the CPU column to sort the processes by %CPU usage (Highest to
Lowest).
Move the mouse cursor over any process, you should see a popup with some
detailed info.
Then mouse over the process that's using most or all the CPU %.
Then click on that process to highlight it,
Now that it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select:
Search Online
This should display what out there on the web about that process.
You can also double click on any process to open up a more detailed
'Properties' window.

Note: some entries like Explorer, System/Services, Svchost may need to be
expanded to show the detail,
(sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left of the
entry.

JS

 

[DL]

126kbs doesnt sound right, it implies you have no temp files, no internet
temp files, cookies or anything else. Its rare to see such a clean PC

 

[tjb]

thanks for your reply.
yes i have a system metrics on my desktop and i get a lot of 100% cpu spikes.
after downloading processor explorer, system idle process is first most of
the time, webroot spysweeper seems to be next most of the time.