Well, if you've tried "everything", then obviously there is nothing more can
be done, right? <g>. I often try everything I can think of, but have never
managed to try everything; someone always finds something I didn't try.
ANYway and seriously, see Inline and Bottom post:
XP compaq 1.8gig 512 meg of ram
o all current service patches.
Assume that means SP2?
Wow, that's a first! Never seen that before on an in-use machine.
o no network shares
o defraged with 0&0 multi times
What does "with 0&0" mean? DeFrag has no such capability AFAIK.
o all clear in the event viewer
For which logs? Please name them. Not even chkdsk results?
o majority of services disabled
Any recently disabled?
Did this occur after last week's MS Update by any chance?
o ran tweak now reg cleaner multi times
Don't know what that is. Reg cleaners shouldn't be run multiple times,
especially when the first time does nothing. Why so many times, and what
did it find? What did you let it repair?
o shut down as much as I could with x-setup pro
What version? That's a dangerous tool and you should probably revert its
changes back to what they were, especially since it didn't fix anything.
Did it report anything repaired in Event Viewer?
unnecessary; should put them back and get them working again.
o ran spybot Good
o ran adaware Good
Also try the MS Malicious software tool, and HiJackThis. Be sure to read
the HiJack info before posting it anywhere and do NOT post the log here!
bootvis
o did not display the graphs that I needed.
o optimized system multi times
Bootvis: That indicates a system problem, pretty sure. Something is
corrupted if Bootvis failed somehow, but it's entirely possible the
corruption was caused by some of your well meaning attempts at a fix.
This machine belongs to a friend and she stated that it worked fine
when first purchased but seemed to slow down after she loaded a lot of
pictures on it. I want to figure it out and do not want to reinstall.
You haven't really provided a lot of information to work with, but that
almost sounds within reason if there has been a lot of graphic manipulation
and indexing is turned on, plus antivirus and a few other possiblities.
Honestly, "seemed to slow down" doesn't sound like a very serious problem
and IMO definitely didn't merit the amount of system area manipulation that
you've done. If it was a large amount of graphics, then just indexing would
make some delays noticeable.
If you really want to pursue this manually, my first advice would be to
put everything back the way it was (hopefully you backed it all up before
mucking with system areas), and start anew with a different troubleshooting
concept. I wouldn't even touch a machine like that might now be unless my
intent was to back up and reinstall.
From the above, if you haven't already, you may not have any choice but to
do a backup of ALL data, hopefully just Documents and Settings if everything
has been kept there as it was designed for. That way you get every file
created on the machine plus all Outlook, OE and IE files, etc..
That will also be magnitudes faster than any manual method you're looking
at right now, I'm pretty sure. And then do a fresh, clean install right
from deleting and recreating the partition/s.
If she's not used My Documents for all her data though, the job will be
tougher to locate all her data. You'll have to look and see.
If you don't have backup or imaging software, ntbackup.exe or backup.exe,
provided on the XP CD (or available for free download from MS), will do just
fine with the exception it won't write directly to DVD or CD and will not
compress data. It will however write to an external drive just fine, which
is the best way to do it, and the drive itself can be set to be compressed.
IMO you very likely have a mess now. Bite the bullet, backup, and do a
clean install of her OS. Be certain you use her CDs by the way; do NOT use
your own unless you're sure of what you're doing and the nuances of
Activation, OEM vs Retail, etc etc etc.
And for the future, ask her to clarify "seems to"<g>.
HTH
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