Computer Starting to Slowdown!!!?

[The Pete]

My computer is approximately 2 months old and now has just recently
started to slow down after 3-4 hrs of use after each bootup. I have
scanned for viruses, malware/spyware, uninstalled unecessary programs,
defragmentized the hard drive, run diskcheck and cleared cookies and
temporary files from Internet Explorer. After a few hrs the system
slows down substantially thus making it difficult to browse the net
and switch inbetween programs. When I go to the "Performance" tab
under the task manager it shows the CPU usage around a minimal 5-10%
when idle during this slowdown process. Under "Processess" there
aren't any other resource programs running with any significant cpu
usage.

I am currently running: Windows XP SP2 (with all updates), Pentium
Core Duo 2.4ghz, 2 Gigs of Ram, Norton Internet Security.

Any thoughts?

 

[Gerry]

Norton Internet Security willl not help system perfomance. You
can get a similar service using freeware without such a resource hog.

cCleaner is a useful tool if used with care. The main drawback with
Disk CleanUp in XP is the need to run it in each User Profile -this
is corrected in Vista. Also cCleaner does a more thorough job
removing detritus. Disk Clean Up passes by e.g. the many zero byte
files produced by Outlook Express.

Have you checked Event Viewer for Error and Warning Reports?

Have you checked for third party driver updates?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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