System is dying

[Guest]

I have a xp home, 160 gig hd - half full; i gig ram. I run two spyware and
utilize Zone Alarm security suite for anti-virus. For the last four days,
the system has been slowing down to a where it is barely working. it started
with left clicks having no effect, i.e., I would have IE open and would left
click the - key and there was no response. I finally got the system working
by right cliking the tool bar IE to minimize and it would minimize and now IE
would be responsive to left or right clicks. Outlook take 5 minutes to open
if it does at all

Any comments please

 

[JS]

Does the slowdown only happen when using IE, (what version are you using ...
IE6 or 7)?

JS

 

[SingaporeWebDesign]

Hello,

Check which process is hogging the CPU in Task Manager - Processes tab.

Right-click on the blue area of your task bar and click Task Manager to
access Task Manager. Click on the processes tab. Click two times on the CPU
column to sort by CPU usage. Now you can identify the process which is
consuming the most CPU - they will be at the top.

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[Rock]

I have a xp home, 160 gig hd - half full; i gig ram. I run two spyware and
utilize Zone Alarm security suite for anti-virus. For the last four
days,
the system has been slowing down to a where it is barely working. it
started
with left clicks having no effect, i.e., I would have IE open and would
left
click the - key and there was no response. I finally got the system
working
by right cliking the tool bar IE to minimize and it would minimize and now
IE
would be responsive to left or right clicks. Outlook take 5 minutes to
open
if it does at all

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

 

[Nicholas]

Try running a spyware scan with products such as Windows Defender.

 

[Guest]

No. It has slowed down for everything. Also, I have looked at Task Manager
and the CPU usage is low

 

[Guest]

I have looked at Task Manager and the CPU usage is low

 

[SingaporeWebDesign]

Hello,

Might be possible that your hard disk is failing.

Corrupt disc errors may indicate that the disk is failing. Try running a
full sector scan with HDTune..

http://www.hdtune.com/

...and doing the error scan.. it is free.

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[Rock]

No. It has slowed down for everything. Also, I have looked at Task Manager
and the CPU usage is low

In device manager check the hard drive to see if it's running in PIO or DMA
mode. If PIO that means there were errors and to compensate the system
dropped it to PIO. Unfortunately it doesn't return it to DMA. See this
link.

http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm