S-l-o-o-w-w-w XP . . .

[Lloyd]

I went out ot town for four months and returned to family
reporting WinXP Home Ed PC absolutely creeping along.

I ran Windows Update (took overnight) and updated virus
scanner which is now on it's second day of scanning and
has only scaanned 15,382 files so far.

No strange applications running in task manager and
performance specs are as follows:

CPU Usage: 100%
PF Usage: 202MB

Totals: 684 handles 351 threads 32 processes

Physical Memory (K): Total 384496 Available 85912
System Cache 204508

Commit Charge (K): Total 207308 Limit 914292
Peak 212004

Kernel Memory (K): Total 48740 Paged 26232
Nonpaged 22512

No network utilization charges or other users connected.

Can you please help me sort this out?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Lloyd;
Follow this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/Slowcom.htm

 

[Lloyd]

Thanks J.J. I already run Ad-Aware and do regular
defrags, etc. but have not been home for a while while
family kept up use of PC. I have a firewall/NAT running.
I will try these things on the link and update and run all
utilities. At this speed, it could take months!

Any more help eagerly accepted!!

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Lloyd;
Make sure Ad-Aware is updated, most recent update was last week.

Go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and get their hard
drive diagnostics, not likely the cause, but worth a look if the rest
does no good.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://dts-l.org/index.html

 

[Lloyd]

Jupiter:
Again, thanks. I will get back with results in a few days
(you wouldn't believe how slow it runs!!) I might try
PCpitstop.com, too. They have some diagnostics that run
over the Web.

- Lloyd.

 

[Nick Burns]

Sounds like you are using norton...? What is your machine spec's..?

 

[Lloyd]

Nick-
Not using Norton, Using McAfee VirusScan Online. 60GB
Seagate ST360020A HD, 1.3GHz AMD Athlon Processor, 376MB
RAM. It's an HP pavilion xt938 PC and the only non-out-of-
the box hardware I'm using is a Logitech wheel mouse. I
am behind a Netgear FVS318 VPN Firewall and a cable modem.
I ran an updated version of Ad-aware overnight and
restarted w/no improvement. I removed all unnecessary
items from the startup list w/msconfig and this did not
help. I am currently downloading Seagate's diagnostics
program to run. McAfee just found a McAfee SecurityCenter
Update Engine it doesn't recognize... Still working on
this one.

 

[Guest]

see diagnostics results below:

-----Original Message-----
Lloyd;
Make sure Ad-Aware is updated, most recent update was last week.

Go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and get their hard
drive diagnostics, not likely the cause, but worth a look if the rest
does no good.

-----------------------------------------------------------
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DIAGATA.EXE Version 3.07.30214ML
Copyright (c) 2002 by Seagate Technology, LLC. All rights
reserved.

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Timer Resolution: 0.000122
Short Test Begin: 04-Dec-2003 18:34:32
Cable Test - 0 Errors
Buffer Test - 0 Errors
Identify Data
Model Number: ST360020A
Serial Number: 3EX09FL0
Firmware Revision: 3.35
Default CHS: 16383-16-63
Current CHS: 16383-16-63
Current Capacity: 16514064 Sectors
Total Capacity: 117231408 Sectors
80 Conductor Cable Reported
ID Method: CSEL
SMART Check: Passed
DST - Passed
PIO/DMA Data Compare
Total Bytes = 659456
Estimated PIO Transfer Rates
Min: 0.21MB/s Max: 0.21MB/s Avg: 0.21MB/s
Estimated DMA Transfer Rates
Min: 46.98MB/s Max: 58.73MB/s Avg: 58.10MB/s
SMART Check: Passed
Short Test Passed: 04-Dec-2003 18:35:41

-----------------------------------------------------------
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DIAGATA.EXE Version 3.07.30214ML
Copyright (c) 2002 by Seagate Technology, LLC. All rights
reserved.

-----------------------------------------------------------
------
Timer Resolution: 0.000122
Short Test Begin: 04-Dec-2003 18:38:24
Cable Test - 0 Errors
Buffer Test - 0 Errors
Identify Data
Model Number: ST360020A
Serial Number: 3EX09FL0
Firmware Revision: 3.35
Default CHS: 16383-16-63
Current CHS: 16383-16-63
Current Capacity: 16514064 Sectors
Total Capacity: 117231408 Sectors
80 Conductor Cable Reported
ID Method: CSEL
SMART Check: Passed
DST - Passed
PIO/DMA Data Compare
Total Bytes = 732160
Estimated PIO Transfer Rates
Min: 0.21MB/s Max: 0.21MB/s Avg: 0.21MB/s
Estimated DMA Transfer Rates
Min: 46.14MB/s Max: 76.90MB/s Avg: 58.24MB/s
SMART Check: Passed
Short Test Passed: 04-Dec-2003 18:39:32
Scanning for bad sectors...

Performing Complete Surface Scan on drive: ST360020A
Scan Completed... NO PROBLEMS FOUND

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Reboot to Safe Mode
Does it still run slow?
Disconnect the network/modem cable, does it still run slow?
Disable all applications, is it still slow?
Power off, remove unnecessary cards (network, sound, etc)

Check for and correct damaged/missing system files:
Start/Run
Type "sfc /scannow" ENTER
Have Windows XP CD available.

Otherwise a reinstall may be necessary.
If possible use a spare hard drive to see how it works with just
Windows.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://dts-l.org/index.html

 

[Barry]

Just to let you know you're not alone. My computer does
the same thing either overnight or over 2 nights. No
applications running. Monitor shows "system" task is
using 100% of CPU. Other apps can run but will continue
to run slowly. Have checked all same as you and can't
find the issue. Shutdown also hangs up. Looks to me
like something has caused XP to loop. Keep trying as
you'll be helping lots of us. Barry