slow system performance under XP

[Geoff Lawrence]

Hi there, hope someone can help.

In the last week my HP Pavillion has started running very
slowly - lots of data transfer to the hard drive causing
very slow performance.

The strange thing is that I have 40GB of free disk space,
512MB Ram (rarely uses more than 150MB) and CPU is rarely
more than 30% (2GHz Pentium IV).

I have updated my Norton anti virus and run a full system
check and cleaned the system of data miners using lavasoft.

But it is still doing it.

Any ideas?

Geoff

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Geoff;
See if the information on this link helps:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

 

[Guest]

tyhanks for the help but it made no difference. I am in
the throes of downloading service pack one for XP home
edition- so far 60MB and 1.5hrs on broadband. Mopst time
taken by cpu 'thrashing'. God knows what is soaking up
the cpu time. Can't find a damn thing anywhere.

Surely I am not alone in this problem???!!


Help!

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

You checked for spyware and viruses using tools updated within the
last week in both cases?
The tools both should have been updated recently.

What processes are using the most?

Try System Restore to before issue started:
Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Restore

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/

 

[Guest]

If it makes you feel any better, you are not alone

I have a fresh install of XP pro [less than 1 month old], lots of Gb left, and recently, the hard disk started thrashing around [not all the time]...when it does, you can't accomplish ANYTHING

So far, nothing suggested as followup to your posting has helped me

Good luck [to us all]

jeff Wei

----- (e-mail address removed) wrote: ----

tyhanks for the help but it made no difference. I am in
the throes of downloading service pack one for XP home
edition- so far 60MB and 1.5hrs on broadband. Mopst time
taken by cpu 'thrashing'. God knows what is soaking up
the cpu time. Can't find a damn thing anywhere

Surely I am not alone in this problem???!

 

[Guest]

I had the same problem, and I did EVERTYHING that was suggested at..

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.ht

....but the problem persisted

FINALLY, I called Microsoft fee-based support and the support tech had me repair bad sectors on the hard disk. AND IT WORKED

If you don't know how, here it is

/Start/Run/ cm

in the dos window, type in chkdsk /

Say 'Y' to 'Run chkdsk when you next restart the computer?

If you really have a lot of bad sectors, you may need to run it twice [I did]

HOWEVER, the tech warned me that so many bad sectors is a sign of physical problems with the disk, and that I should probably replace the hard disk [or make LOTS of backups]

I hope this helps some people. It is REALLY FRUSTRATING to have this problem

Jeff Wein