Clean install of XP Pro and new HD, and motherboard s l o w XP now

[Guest]

My Dell 2,8Ghz, 1Gb memory, Pentium, had to haave the hard drive replaced,
and windoze XP Pro reinstalled, by a Dell service "tech". Sinec then, I have
noticed a serious degradation in the system performance! I have AdAware SE,
CA AntiVirus, and Spyware Doctor installed and checked daily. S t i l l s l
o w !! I have checked Task Manager and it shows a lot of Processes running,
but I am not real sure what they all are, and am afraid to change anything.
Any suggestions, at all , would be greatly appreciated! I'll try almost
anything to get my performance back. I am also running Disk Cleanup daily,
and Defrag FWIW.

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Steve

Download and run SpyBot S&D, SpywareBlaster and CWShredder too.. run all of
the anti-spyware programs in 'safe' mode..

http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

You might also want to put this site into favourites..

http://www.pchell.com

 

[Ken Blake]

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My Dell 2,8Ghz, 1Gb memory, Pentium, had to haave the hard
drive
replaced, and windoze XP Pro reinstalled, by a Dell service
"tech".
Sinec then, I have noticed a serious degradation in the system
performance! I have AdAware SE, CA AntiVirus, and Spyware
Doctor
installed and checked daily. S t i l l s l o w !! I have
checked
Task Manager and it shows a lot of Processes running, but I am
not
real sure what they all are, and am afraid to change anything.
Any
suggestions, at all , would be greatly appreciated! I'll try
almost
anything to get my performance back. I am also running Disk
Cleanup
daily, and Defrag FWIW.

It's very difficult to help with so little information. Exactly
*which* process are running? Also which applications are running?

Despite what anti-spyware programs you're running, spyware would
be my first guess for the problem.

 

[Guest]

I'd first make sure "Fast User Switching" and "Indexing Sevice" are shut off.
They each use up a lot of power. Go to "Black Viper"s site for information on
how to set up the various services.

 

[Guest]

OK, I ran them all, and have not noticed a big difference, with no major
issues found. I did uninstall Windows XP Plus! and it seemed to help more.
WHen I get back home to my PC, I'll post aq list of the programs that are
running, per Paul's request, to see if that may be a big part of the problem
or not.