Delays in Outlook, OE, Explorer, etc

[Don Burnette]

Within the last 2-3 weeks, I have been experiencing some strange slowdowns
in my system. I am at a loss as to what is causing this. I will try to
describe, best I can, the symptons I am seeing.

After my system has been running a few minutes, things like closing windows,
opening documents, spell check in Outlook running, etc, begin to get really
slow. I can close Outlook , or OE, and it takes a few seconds for the icon
on the task bar to go away. I can try to open a word document, and it can
take upwards of minutes to actually open the document. I can try to send an
email in Outlook, once it is composed and I click on send, it can take a
minute or two for the spellcheck to come up, once it is checked and I click
on send, it can take another couple of minutes to actually send it.

When I first boot my system, things are ok, but after just a few minutes of
checking emails, browsing newsgroups, this starts to happen.
When it first started happening, I tried using system restore, and was
successful in restoring to a point prior to it happening, but it did not fix
the issue.

I have checked my processes and cpu performance in task manager, and nothing
appears to be out of line. I do not have a lot of stuff loading at startup,
I have my system fairly lean. I have all the latest drivers for my sound,
video, motherboard, etc. I had disabled, ctfmon, and cthelper, in msconfig,
but re-enabled them in case that had something to do with it, but it did not
help.
I also had disabled script debugging ( IE ), along with script debugging
(other), in Internet Explorer's advanced options, but re-enabled them, with
no change.


I am running XP Pro SP2, with all updates, on an Msi K8N Neo4 Plat Nforce4
mb, with AMD X2 4400+ dual core processor. I also have Office XP, and it has
all it's udpates. My system has not exactly been stable since building it 6
months ago, but this I believe to be an unrelated issue. I have also ran
memtest86 over night, with no errors reported on my ram.

I have thought about running SFC Scannow, to see if any damaged files need
replacing, or even trying a repair install, but was hoping to resolve it
before going to that extreme.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

I will be out most of the day, will check back later this evening.


Thanks,


Don Burnette

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Within the last 2-3 weeks, I have been experiencing some strange slowdowns
in my system. I am at a loss as to what is causing this. I will try to
describe, best I can, the symptons I am seeing.

After my system has been running a few minutes, things like closing
windows, opening documents, spell check in Outlook running, etc, begin to
get really slow. I can close Outlook , or OE, and it takes a few seconds
for the icon on the task bar to go away. I can try to open a word
document, and it can take upwards of minutes to actually open the
document. I can try to send an email in Outlook, once it is composed and I
click on send, it can take a minute or two for the spellcheck to come up,
once it is checked and I click on send, it can take another couple of
minutes to actually send it.

When I first boot my system, things are ok, but after just a few minutes
of checking emails, browsing newsgroups, this starts to happen.
When it first started happening, I tried using system restore, and was
successful in restoring to a point prior to it happening, but it did not
fix the issue.

I have checked my processes and cpu performance in task manager, and
nothing appears to be out of line. I do not have a lot of stuff loading at
startup, I have my system fairly lean. I have all the latest drivers for
my sound, video, motherboard, etc. I had disabled, ctfmon, and cthelper,
in msconfig, but re-enabled them in case that had something to do with it,
but it did not help.
I also had disabled script debugging ( IE ), along with script debugging
(other), in Internet Explorer's advanced options, but re-enabled them,
with no change.


I am running XP Pro SP2, with all updates, on an Msi K8N Neo4 Plat Nforce4
mb, with AMD X2 4400+ dual core processor. I also have Office XP, and it
has all it's udpates. My system has not exactly been stable since building
it 6 months ago, but this I believe to be an unrelated issue. I have also
ran memtest86 over night, with no errors reported on my ram.

I have thought about running SFC Scannow, to see if any damaged files need
replacing, or even trying a repair install, but was hoping to resolve it
before going to that extreme.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

I will be out most of the day, will check back later this evening.

Could be a malware infection.

So How Did I Get Infected Anyway?
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=27971

Help with Hijackware
All MS - MVP Sites.
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
(http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm)
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware
(http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm)
(http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/darnit.html)
(http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm)

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315

 

[Don Burnette]

Could be a malware infection.

So How Did I Get Infected Anyway?
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=27971

Help with Hijackware
All MS - MVP Sites.
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
(http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm)
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware
(http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm)
(http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/darnit.html)
(http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm)

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315

Thanks Frank.
I regularly scan my system with Ad Aware SE, Spybot Search and Destroy, use
Spyware Blaster, and have AVG Professional Anti-Virus.

I don't think that is it, although at this point I kind of wish it was so
then I would know what is causing this.


Don Burnette