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kzaske
Hello everyone;
My problem is fairly simple to explain, difficult to track down. Here is
the back story; I recently replaced my motherboard and video card so I
deleted the partition and reinstalled Windows XP Pro 64bit.
The new motherboard is a Foxconn NF4U8AA with an nVidia 9600GT 512. After
installing XP I installed MS Office 2003 Pro. Launching explorer by pressing
the windows flag key took about three minutes (I am not kidding and it was
not connected to the internet at that time) to launch. Double clicking on an
excel spread sheet (23Kb in size), it took four minutes 19 seconds to launch
(yes I timed it) excel, the spreadsheet never did open.
The driver disk does that came with the mother board turned out to be the
wrong one so I went to nVidia's web site and download the drivers for nForce
4 Ultra AMD and installed them. Now my NIC works. Things have gotten
faster, explore now takes one minute fifty seconds to launch and excel only
takes three minutes nine seconds to launch. As I had work to do I installed
my antivirus, connected to the web and downloaded an application or two that
I needed (mainly Acrobat). A 158MB wmv takes three seconds to launch,
Acrobat 9 is slightly slower at about four seconds.
The Antivirus I am using is Avira Premium Security Suite (the firewall is
not installed as the one in my router is set to be very picky). It is fully
updated no viruses or other undesirable crud is on the system.
I did a search on this and many other threads and have done a lot to try to
fix the issue including searching my registry for "//" entries. Checked and
cleaned up the start up group, disabled indexing. Both hard drive have been
thier "SMART" status check, both are OK. Both have been defragged, IE is set
to clear the cache every time I exit it. Cookies are deleted daily (which is
a pain).
I have downloaded a file called "ProcessExplorer" which says I have a nice
clean system. Any ideas, I am stuck.
My problem is fairly simple to explain, difficult to track down. Here is
the back story; I recently replaced my motherboard and video card so I
deleted the partition and reinstalled Windows XP Pro 64bit.
The new motherboard is a Foxconn NF4U8AA with an nVidia 9600GT 512. After
installing XP I installed MS Office 2003 Pro. Launching explorer by pressing
the windows flag key took about three minutes (I am not kidding and it was
not connected to the internet at that time) to launch. Double clicking on an
excel spread sheet (23Kb in size), it took four minutes 19 seconds to launch
(yes I timed it) excel, the spreadsheet never did open.
The driver disk does that came with the mother board turned out to be the
wrong one so I went to nVidia's web site and download the drivers for nForce
4 Ultra AMD and installed them. Now my NIC works. Things have gotten
faster, explore now takes one minute fifty seconds to launch and excel only
takes three minutes nine seconds to launch. As I had work to do I installed
my antivirus, connected to the web and downloaded an application or two that
I needed (mainly Acrobat). A 158MB wmv takes three seconds to launch,
Acrobat 9 is slightly slower at about four seconds.
The Antivirus I am using is Avira Premium Security Suite (the firewall is
not installed as the one in my router is set to be very picky). It is fully
updated no viruses or other undesirable crud is on the system.
I did a search on this and many other threads and have done a lot to try to
fix the issue including searching my registry for "//" entries. Checked and
cleaned up the start up group, disabled indexing. Both hard drive have been
thier "SMART" status check, both are OK. Both have been defragged, IE is set
to clear the cache every time I exit it. Cookies are deleted daily (which is
a pain).
I have downloaded a file called "ProcessExplorer" which says I have a nice
clean system. Any ideas, I am stuck.