XP has grinded to a halt almost

[Guest]

All of a sudden XP has gotten so slow that its not usable. its takes 10 min
to get desktop when booting and then each click of the mouse takes 2-3 min to
react. I have ran several antivirus, spyware and they find nothing. The pc
works fine in safe mode, but in normal boot is very sick.

I have killed all startup and its the same.
no virus found
no spyware found
I have done system restores to dates when it was fine and still no better.
I have lots expierence with computers and this has got me baffled.


Any ideas?


Thank you

 

[Leonard Grey]

"So how did I get infected in the first place?"
http://www.castlecops.com/postlite7736-.html

 

[Guest]

All of a sudden XP has gotten so slow that its not usable. its takes 10 min
to get desktop when booting and then each click of the mouse takes 2-3 min to
react. I have ran several antivirus, spyware and they find nothing. The pc
works fine in safe mode, but in normal boot is very sick.

I have killed all startup and its the same.
no virus found
no spyware found
I have done system restores to dates when it was fine and still no better.
I have lots expierence with computers and this has got me baffled.


Any ideas?


Thank you

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry that I don't have any ideas to help, but I have a very similar
problem that I can't track down either. I am running xp pro and when using a
browser iexplore.exe or explore.exe will use up to 100% of the cpu. The
browser window zoom control will rapidly go up or down and keystrokes take
minutes to register. Sometimes the zoom goes to 1000% and then I can set it
back down to 100% but it immediately goes back to full zoom.
I have run anti-spyware: Spyware Doctor, and ExSoft SpySE nothing found
I have run anti-virus: Norton
I have run registry cleaners: Registry Mechanic and RegCure
I have run Uniblue's Speed Up My PC
My windows is updated

I found no infections.
The only thing that has worked has been to shut down and restart. That
works for about twenty minutes or so and then the same problem repeats itself
and it is back to square one.

I too am out of ideas.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I'm sorry that I don't have any ideas to help, but I have a very similar
problem that I can't track down either. I am running xp pro and when using a
browser iexplore.exe or explore.exe will use up to 100% of the cpu. The
browser window zoom control will rapidly go up or down and keystrokes take
minutes to register. Sometimes the zoom goes to 1000% and then I can set it
back down to 100% but it immediately goes back to full zoom.

I have run anti-spyware: Spyware Doctor, and ExSoft SpySE nothing found

Regarding SpySE

1. First, read what Eric Howes says about it here:
http://spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm#xos_note

Even though it's no longer listed as rogue, I wouldn't want to deal
with a company with such a history.

2. Even if the company were guiltless, this has never been considered
one of the better anti-spyware products.

I have run anti-virus: Norton

Ugh! Unquestionably, the worst anti-virus product on the market.

I have run registry cleaners: Registry Mechanic and RegCure

Ugh again! Running registry cleaners is one of the most dangerous
things you can do. I strongly recommend *against* the use of registry
cleaners. Cleaning of the registry isn't needed and is dangerous.
Leave the registry alone and don't use any registry cleaner. Despite
what many people think, and what vendors of registry cleaning software
try to convince you of, having unused registry entries doesn't really
hurt
you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

I have run Uniblue's Speed Up My PC

And a final ugh! All programs of this sort are nothing but snake oil.
They too are more likely to cause a problem than solve one.

Assuming that all of this software hasn't caused your problem, I think
your problem is most likely malware (probably spyware), even though
you think you have protected yourself against it. The first thing to
do is make sure that your system is malware-free. I recommend that you
go to Malke's Malware Removal site at
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware and
follow the instructions there.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

All of a sudden XP has gotten so slow that its not usable. its
takes 10 min to get desktop when booting and then each click of the
mouse takes 2-3 min to react. I have ran several antivirus,
spyware and they find nothing. The pc works fine in safe mode, but
in normal boot is very sick.

I have killed all startup and its the same.
no virus found
no spyware found
I have done system restores to dates when it was fine and still no
better.
I have lots expierence with computers and this has got me baffled.

1) Reboot and logon as a user with Administrative Privs...
2) Immediately run the following batch script (You will have to create it by
cutting/pasting as directed.)

- Click Start, Run, type: notepad C:\register.bat and press Enter. Choose
Yes when you are prompted.
- Copy the following commands and then paste them into the opened Notepad
window:

regsvr32 comcat.dll /s
regsvr32 shdoc401.dll /s
regsvr32 shdoc401.dll /i /s
regsvr32 asctrls.ocx /s
regsvr32 oleaut32.dll /s
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll /I /s
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll /s
regsvr32 browseui.dll /s
regsvr32 browseui.dll /I /s
regsvr32 msrating.dll /s
regsvr32 mlang.dll /s
regsvr32 hlink.dll /s
regsvr32 mshtmled.dll /s
regsvr32 urlmon.dll /s
regsvr32 plugin.ocx /s
regsvr32 sendmail.dll /s
regsvr32 scrobj.dll /s
regsvr32 mmefxe.ocx /s
regsvr32 corpol.dll /s
regsvr32 jscript.dll /s
regsvr32 msxml.dll /s
regsvr32 imgutil.dll /s
regsvr32 thumbvw.dll /s
regsvr32 cryptext.dll /s
regsvr32 rsabase.dll /s
regsvr32 inseng.dll /s
regsvr32 iesetup.dll /i /s
regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll /s
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll /s
regsvr32 dispex.dll /s
regsvr32 occache.dll /s
regsvr32 occache.dll /i /s
regsvr32 iepeers.dll /s
regsvr32 urlmon.dll /i /s
regsvr32 cdfview.dll /s
regsvr32 webcheck.dll /s
regsvr32 mobsync.dll /s
regsvr32 pngfilt.dll /s
regsvr32 licmgr10.dll /s
regsvr32 icmfilter.dll /s
regsvr32 hhctrl.ocx /s
regsvr32 inetcfg.dll /s
regsvr32 tdc.ocx /s
regsvr32 MSR2C.DLL /s
regsvr32 msident.dll /s
regsvr32 msieftp.dll /s
regsvr32 xmsconf.ocx /s
regsvr32 ils.dll /s
regsvr32 msoeacct.dll /s
regsvr32 inetcomm.dll /s
regsvr32 msdxm.ocx /s
regsvr32 dxmasf.dll /s
regsvr32 l3codecx.ax /s
regsvr32 acelpdec.ax /s
regsvr32 mpg4ds32.ax /s
regsvr32 voxmsdec.ax /s
regsvr32 danim.dll /s
regsvr32 Daxctle.ocx /s
regsvr32 lmrt.dll /s
regsvr32 datime.dll /s
regsvr32 dxtrans.dll /s
regsvr32 dxtmsft.dll /s
regsvr32 WEBPOST.DLL /s
regsvr32 WPWIZDLL.DLL /s
regsvr32 POSTWPP.DLL /s
regsvr32 CRSWPP.DLL /s
regsvr32 FTPWPP.DLL /s
regsvr32 FPWPP.DLL /s
regsvr32 WUAPI.DLL /s
regsvr32 WUAUENG.DLL /s
regsvr32 ATL.DLL /s
regsvr32 WUCLTUI.DLL /s
regsvr32 WUPS.DLL /s
regsvr32 WUWEB.DLL /s
regsvr32 wshom.ocx /s
regsvr32 wshext.dll /s
regsvr32 vbscript.dll /s
regsvr32 scrrun.dll mstinit.exe /setup /s
regsvr32 msnsspc.dll /SspcCreateSspiReg /s
regsvr32 msapsspc.dll /SspcCreateSspiReg /s
regsvr32 /s urlmon.dll
regsvr32 /s mshtml.dll
regsvr32 /s shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 /s browseui.dll
regsvr32 /s jscript.dll
regsvr32 /s vbscript.dll
regsvr32 /s scrrun.dll
regsvr32 /s msxml.dll
regsvr32 /s actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 /s softpub.dll
regsvr32 /s wintrust.dll
regsvr32 /s dssenh.dll
regsvr32 /s rsaenh.dll
regsvr32 /s gpkcsp.dll
regsvr32 /s sccbase.dll
regsvr32 /s slbcsp.dll
regsvr32 /s cryptdlg.dll
regsvr32 /s schannel.dll
regsvr32 /s oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 /s ole32.dll
regsvr32 /s shell32.dll
regsvr32 /s initpki.dll
regsvr32 /s msscript.ocx
regsvr32 /s dispex.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll /s
del %temp% /Q /F
net stop wuauserv
ren %windir%\system32\catroot2 catroot2.old
cd /d %windir%\SoftwareDistribution
rd /s DataStore /Q
regsvr32 wuapi.dll /s
regsvr32 wups.dll /s
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll /s
regsvr32 wucltui.dll /s
regsvr32 wuweb.dll /s
regsvr32 msxml.dll /s
regsvr32 msxml2.dll /s
regsvr32 msxml3.dll /s
regsvr32 urlmon.dll /s
net start wuauserv
exit

- After you paste the above commands, please close the Notepad window.
Choose Yes when you are prompted to save the file.
- Click Start, Run, type:
C:\register.bat and press Enter to run the commands I have pasted.
The Process may take sometime.

3) Download/Install Windows Update v3.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91237

(You may need to install it using the command line switch "/wuforce" right
after an additional reboot - immediately after logging in.)

4) Download/Install the 927891 patch.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7A81B0CD-A0B9-497E-8A89-404327772E5A

5) Reboot.

 

[Guest]

--
Robbie

All of a sudden XP has gotten so slow that its not usable. its takes 10 min
to get desktop when booting and then each click of the mouse takes 2-3 min to
react. I have ran several antivirus, spyware and they find nothing. The pc
works fine in safe mode, but in normal boot is very sick.

I have killed all startup and its the same.
no virus found
no spyware found
I have done system restores to dates when it was fine and still no better.
I have lots expierence with computers and this has got me baffled.


Any ideas?


Thank you

Hi Brian,
I had this problem and eventually found that it was caused by my firewall
Zone alarm suite. After uninstalling it my computer ran properly.
In the past i had the same problem and that time it turned out to be Windows
Defencer, naturally microsoft were of no help and again i disabled it and my
computer returned to normal.
Disabling start up items and then restarting them one at a time can
sometimes find the problem as well.
Regards
Robbie