system is dog slow

[Headtheball]

I have just completed a reinstall of win xp home because my oe and a few
other applications would not initialize and everything runs so slowly.

Its not as though I dont have enough resources, I have 512mb DDRAM on a
athlon xp 2000+ 30gb hdd (20gb free) and an nvidia tnt grahics card AS Rock
Mobo.

I do not have any bugs, viruses,spyware,trojans etc etc.

The machine has been scanned with adaware, Norton AV 2004, Spyware blaster,

IE6 SP1 is loaded with all the updates including the blaster worm patch

I have run Bootvis to try and get the boot times faster (at present it takes
about 10 mins to boot from login screen to desktop).

I have office 2003 installed and the applications take forever to load.

I have run defragmenter and seem to have a large number of file fragments
( indicated by a large red band ) I thought that disk defragmenter found
these fragments and mended them but instead it just brings them all together
in one area of the disk.

Please can anyone help?

 

[Marvin]

Start/run/msconfig and see what is ticked in your startup folder - untick
anything not necessary

 

[Headtheball]

Hi Shady,
I have done that, the only thing that I have added is Norton Systemworks
2004 which also includes Norton AV 2004. I cant see that it would affect the
startup that much. I know Norton AV is notorius for using up system
resources but I have bucket loads and it should not be a problem.

 

[Tom]

Hi Shady,
I have done that, the only thing that I have added is Norton Systemworks
2004 which also includes Norton AV 2004. I cant see that it would affect the
startup that much. I know Norton AV is notorius for using up system
resources but I have bucket loads and it should not be a problem.

I can tell you with almost complete certainty that it is the NSWs. this is
simply my experience, and opinion, but I will never again put anything from
Norton on my PC, their products are too invasive, and really use too much of
the system. Systemworks tries to run Windows in place of Windows, and can
cause lots of conflicts.

In any event, since you said you (I assume recently) installed Systemworks,
try uninstalling it, and see what happens. Keep in mind, this may have an
effect on your NAV, and you may need to reinstall that again.