system slowdown

[Neil Harwani]

I have a Win XP Pro with P 4 1.7 GHZ and 512 SDRAM and 40+20 GB HDD. I have
a unique problem which I haven't encountered before. Whenever internet is
started, all the new programs that I start take a really long time to load.
During this time system is quite responsive, all open programs function
well, they respond and work as I want them too, just that all new programs
that I try to open, open after a really long delay like 1 minute, 2 minute
or sometimes even 5-8 minutes, nothing new opens. Norton Antivirus fully
updated doesn't show a virus, Spybot shows no spyware. Could the reason be
that i have installed many programs. System is never slow normally and is
quite fast, just when net is on, new programs take long time to open.
Neil.

 

[slaroy]

I am experiencing exactly the same problem on a PIII laptop. The
programs open immediately when I unplug my ethernet cable and the
computer recognizes that the network connection is missing. (That
recognition process can also be slow too, but it usually happens
quickly if I'm listening to a streaming radio broadcast.) I suspect
some windows networking service is going on a rampage, but I don't know
which one. I am connecting to the net through a proxy, and I use the
Mozilla 1.7 browser.

 

[slaroy]

I managed to fix my system.

Start->Run->"services.msc"

Stop and disable all services that you are sure you don't need. I
you're not sure if you need it and you want to be safe, you can set i
to Manual, but then the offending service might start anyway.

I have the following service settings:

Name Startup Type

Ati HotKey Poller Automatic
Automatic Updates Automatic
AVG6 Service Automatic
Cryptographic Services Automatic
DHCP Client Automatic
DNS Client Automatic
Event Log Automatic
Help and Support Automatic
IIS Admin Automatic
Message Queuing Automatic
Message Queuing Triggers Automatic
Net Logon Automatic
Plug and Play Automatic
Print Spooler Automatic
Protected Storage Automatic
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Automatic
Security Accounts Manager Automatic
Server Automatic
Shell Hardware Detection Automatic
System Event Notification Automatic
System Restore Service Automatic
Themes Automatic
Upload Manager Automatic
Windows Audio Automatic
Windows Management Instrumentation Automatic
Windows Time Automatic
Workstation Automatic
World Wide Web Publishing Automatic
ATM Service Disabled
Background Intelligent Transfer Service Disabled
Computer Browser Disabled
Distributed Transaction Coordinator Disabled
Error Reporting Service Disabled
HID Input Service Disabled
Indexing Service Disabled
IPSEC Services Disabled
linecard Disabled
Messenger Disabled
Network Location Awareness (NLA) Disabled
Remote Registry Disabled
RIP Listener Disabled
Routing and Remote Access Disabled
Secondary Logon Disabled
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Disabled
Simple TCP/IP Services Disabled
SNMP Service Disabled
SSDP Discovery Service Disabled
Task Scheduler Disabled
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Disabled
WebClient Disabled
Wireless Zero Configuration Disabled
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