SLOW perormance only in user accounts---HELP !

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Abhishek Rao

Hi all

I really cant figure this one out please help!

My machine is an Athlon 2400 256 ram 40gb hard disk, its about 6 weeks
old.About 3 weeks after getting it I had to format it because there
(seemed ) to be a undetectable virus and my hardware support guy
reccommended it. Since then performance was fine for a few days.

Now the account with the Admn priveleges is the only one where it
works
ok (fast). I had to delete the other accounts (had created only 2
more) because they were painfully slow, and CPU usage shoots up to
100%- click on a file, take a walk around the house and it may have
opened when you got back. Any other account i create now and the same
problem happens. I have Norton, AdAware and Spybot. I use them very
regularly. A week ago Norton detected and deleted Sasser. I have run
the sasser removal tools from Symantec separately as well. There are
seemingly no problems/viruses.
I have now created another account but immediately upon creating it
became slow, and it just lies there because i cannot use it.


Any ideas please

Thanks
 
The good thing is that you had only 6 weeks on your system when you were
advised to format, so the loss of data you wanted to save could have been
worse. Try downloading and running "Stinger". It's free, and WORKS. Good
Luck.
Stinger- http://vil.nai.com/vil/averttools.asp

Willie
 
Have you tried running scan in safe mode? Try turning off System restore,
and back on to clear restore points (In a desperation attempt, because it
will clear ALL previous restore points).

Willie
 
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