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wilby
I have a desktop XP pro SP3 that has always run quite well for me. It
has a sata 80 GB drive and 2 GB of ddr2 ram. The cpu is Intel E-6300 duo
core 1.86.
It began running slow several weeks after I moved it to a desk where my
wife uses it. She uses MS Office 2003 and IE-8. That's about all she
ever uses.
I can watch HDTUNE run as it scans the timing of the hard drive and it
starts around 50 to 60 and that's fine however doing almost anything
else at the same time drops the rate to somewhere between 1 and 3.
If I start CCleaner, and click "analyze", I'll see the files go past me
on the screen so slowly that I can go make coffee, and drink some of it
before the analyze finishes. It was never at all like that when I had it
at my desk.
I've used Malwarebytes, Super Antispyware, and Norton 2010 on it looking
for malware, nothing ever is found.
I can watch the cpu use during the slow CCleaner analyze and the cpu use
never gets at all high.
I even tried a new hard drive that didn't make a bit of difference.
To me it feels like an old MFM drive that has it's interleave set to a
very inefficient setting. I'm getting closer to tossing it into the
dumpster every day.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Wilby
has a sata 80 GB drive and 2 GB of ddr2 ram. The cpu is Intel E-6300 duo
core 1.86.
It began running slow several weeks after I moved it to a desk where my
wife uses it. She uses MS Office 2003 and IE-8. That's about all she
ever uses.
I can watch HDTUNE run as it scans the timing of the hard drive and it
starts around 50 to 60 and that's fine however doing almost anything
else at the same time drops the rate to somewhere between 1 and 3.
If I start CCleaner, and click "analyze", I'll see the files go past me
on the screen so slowly that I can go make coffee, and drink some of it
before the analyze finishes. It was never at all like that when I had it
at my desk.
I've used Malwarebytes, Super Antispyware, and Norton 2010 on it looking
for malware, nothing ever is found.
I can watch the cpu use during the slow CCleaner analyze and the cpu use
never gets at all high.
I even tried a new hard drive that didn't make a bit of difference.
To me it feels like an old MFM drive that has it's interleave set to a
very inefficient setting. I'm getting closer to tossing it into the
dumpster every day.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Wilby