Win 2000 Very Slow? help!

[Aymanh]

Hi to all:

I'm experiencing very slow win 2000, scanned the computer with Symantec, no
luck no viruses, right clicks are taking long time to appear, I looked in
task manager, there no main or small programs running, double clicking on
Word takes time?

Win 2000
P II, 350 Mhz
256 RAM

Help Please!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Thank you for visiting the Windows XP newsgroup.

Your question can best be answered by reposting your question
in the Windows 2000 newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win2000.general

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Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Hi to all:
|
| I'm experiencing very slow win 2000, scanned the computer with Symantec, no
| luck no viruses, right clicks are taking long time to appear, I looked in
| task manager, there no main or small programs running, double clicking on
| Word takes time?
|
| Win 2000
| P II, 350 Mhz
| 256 RAM
|
| Help Please!

 

[kurttrail]

By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

Hi to all:

I'm experiencing very slow win 2000, scanned the computer with
Symantec, no luck no viruses, right clicks are taking long time to
appear, I looked in task manager, there no main or small programs
running, double clicking on Word takes time?

Win 2000
P II, 350 Mhz
256 RAM

Help Please!

Norton AV is the problem. You can disable the Office plugin to get
those programs opening right, but right clicking on files folders &
drives will still be slow. The only total workaround I've found so far
is to uninstall Norton AV.

By the way, it's time to send your Dinosaur to the tar pits.

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[kurttrail]

By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

Thank you for visiting the Windows XP newsgroup.

Your question can best be answered by reposting your question
in the Windows 2000 newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win2000.general

Actually, the answer is best answered by Symantec. Can't you at least
tell people to go find their answer in the proper place?

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Kurt
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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Kent_dieGo]

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

 

[RJK]

The same problem appeared on my PC yesterday...and today - tho Norton was
the only thing holding up a normal boot-up. i.e. Nortons' firewall globe and
little yellow av box VERY slow to appear in system tray. Having not
Liveupdated Norton for a couple of weeks, and the only software change was
to install Google's pop-up blocking toolbar. I'm not sure whether it's
ccapp.exe or svchost.exe that's causing the hold up. I hope there was
nothing nasty in Google's popup blocker. I rarely ever download software
from the web but, the aforementioned looked good, and trustworthy.

Am in the middle of a LiveUpdate 3mb+ "Liveupdate" update, and "Norton
Internet Security security updates" 1023kb ...whatever they are. Having
said that, I clicked on Liveupdate a few days ago and the Norton "available
updates" window offered a 1024kb LiveUpdate and "Norton Internet Security
security updates" 1023kx , I think it was, but, I cancelled out of it. So
perhaps my Norton installation just got sulky because I didn't click "next"
to begin collecting those updates at that time

regards, Richard

 

[kurttrail]

By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

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

Then only thing that's slowing down the computer is Norton AV's latest
updates.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[kurttrail]

By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

The same problem appeared on my PC yesterday...and today - tho Norton
was the only thing holding up a normal boot-up. i.e. Nortons'
firewall globe and little yellow av box VERY slow to appear in system
tray. Having not Liveupdated Norton for a couple of weeks, and the
only software change was to install Google's pop-up blocking toolbar.
I'm not sure whether it's ccapp.exe or svchost.exe that's causing the
hold up. I hope there was nothing nasty in Google's popup blocker.
I rarely ever download software from the web but, the aforementioned
looked good, and trustworthy.

Am in the middle of a LiveUpdate 3mb+ "Liveupdate" update, and "Norton
Internet Security security updates" 1023kb ...whatever they are.
Having said that, I clicked on Liveupdate a few days ago and the
Norton "available updates" window offered a 1024kb LiveUpdate and
"Norton Internet Security security updates" 1023kx , I think it was,
but, I cancelled out of it. So perhaps my Norton installation just
got sulky because I didn't click "next" to begin collecting those
updates at that time

The google tool bar has nothing to do with it, as the same thing is
happening to computers that don't have it, but do have the latest NAV
updates. Uninstalling NAV will cure the immediate problem. I'll be
downloading the free version of Grisoft's AVG when I get home.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord & Saviour.
Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for ever and ever!
Amen!"

By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"


Norton AV is the problem. You can disable the Office plugin to get
those programs opening right, but right clicking on files folders &
drives will still be slow. The only total workaround I've found so
far is to uninstall Norton AV.

By the way, it's time to send your Dinosaur to the tar pits.

1. First, disconnect from your network, or internet for those with
broadband, otherwise this process will beverys slow.
2. Go to your Norton Antivirus, and disable the automatic LiveUpdate.
3. Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared.
4. Rename the file called CommonClient.dat to something else like
CommonClient.dat.bad.
5. Rename the file called CommonClient_old.dat to CommonClient.dat.
6. Reconnect your network.
7. Until theres a new fix for this, use LiveUpdate.
8. Put these in your hosts file [C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc] with
notepad:

127.0.0.1 sitefinder-idn.verisign.com
127.0.0.1 crl.verisign.com

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
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http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Why do you think it's a symantec problem, Kurt? It could be a lotsa stuff.

Steve

 

[RJK]

WOW ! I must have done something right - MINE's OK NOW !

During this afternoon, I fiddled and tweaked, the last two things I did
before rebooting were to turn off "Services | Messenger," (which I usually
keep turned off but, earlier today I noticed in NFW event log, that
Messenger was battering its' head against the firewall), and hit F8 and went
for a logged boot up, and I was back to a normal 32 second boot up !
Closed down completely and switched on, still fine !
Earlier this afternoon I disabled the MS Office plugin in NAV like somone in
here advised, and rebooted a few times and that didn't seem to make any
difference. ...just checked and right-click is instantaneous, or as near
instantaneous as it used to be....

....now where's that "Create a restore point" ?

regards, Richard

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord & Saviour.
Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for ever and ever!
Amen!"

Why do you think it's a symantec problem, Kurt? It could be a lotsa
stuff.

Like? Hell, don't put me in the position of defending MS! ;-)

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
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http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Nevermind - I finally read some other threads.
Steve