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If someone knows an actual, real solution to this problem, they will have my
infinite thanks as well as the thousands of others with this problem.
When I had SP1 loaded, and this was 1 week from when it was released, it ran
with no problems. I had no blue screen of death problems etc. etc. as some
people had. As soon as I went to SP2, I had nothing but problems and I
suspect that this probably has something with the number and type of
digitally unsigned drivers. I even had to remove 2 programs to even prevent
the blue screen of death from appearing.
I have read the bevy of similar problems and answers that have been posted.
No, with contant vigilance even with multiple spyware programs and up to date
virus programs and countless untilities to try and fix the problem from deep
within the system and constant cleanups, the system slows down and falters.
Another who also owns a Dell and loads all kinds of software that isn't
digitally signed has more problems than myself. They attempted to fix it
through Microsoft (or Dell) but after 20+ calls, they gave up because they
kept on going over the same basic solutions that normally get posted here.
After cheching this out the 100th time in about as many different ways, it's
not the problem. This particular person gets so frustrated sometimes that he
reformats his entire hard drive - very extreme.
My only solution for this so far is to go through a full blown Repair off of
the CDs. This is time consuming and also requires bypassing around 150
drivers that the CD doesn't have of course. I'm not about to gather and load
up a CD/flash or HDD drive just for this purpose although it's getting to the
point where it's becoming so difficult that I just might. I even have to
reload Iexplorer 7 now after this repair operation.
The suggestion to just restore a previous image MAY work the odd time. My
experience with this is that IF it works, it doesn;t work 100% and the
degradation of the system still continues. Repeated restores will definetely
lead nowhere.
So, what are the visible problems?
a) Slowdown of some operations degrading to slowdown of all systems. This
is even apparent when booting up.
b) Taskmanager reports no problems initially (very high system idle) than
eventually leads to any running program(s) using all of the CPU time.
c) Many system svhost running.
d) Countless Spyware programs detecting no problems.
e) Two different Virus programs reporting nothing.
f) Memory is at 1G and virtual memory set very high.
g) Complete cleanup of the registry doesn't help or is marginal.
g) Lots off room on the hard drive for swapping or defragging does nothing.
h) Last but not least is the fact that my work thick client PCs, which are
XP Pro OS, have none of these problems and are completely installed with
digitally signed programs through Microsoft.
infinite thanks as well as the thousands of others with this problem.
When I had SP1 loaded, and this was 1 week from when it was released, it ran
with no problems. I had no blue screen of death problems etc. etc. as some
people had. As soon as I went to SP2, I had nothing but problems and I
suspect that this probably has something with the number and type of
digitally unsigned drivers. I even had to remove 2 programs to even prevent
the blue screen of death from appearing.
I have read the bevy of similar problems and answers that have been posted.
No, with contant vigilance even with multiple spyware programs and up to date
virus programs and countless untilities to try and fix the problem from deep
within the system and constant cleanups, the system slows down and falters.
Another who also owns a Dell and loads all kinds of software that isn't
digitally signed has more problems than myself. They attempted to fix it
through Microsoft (or Dell) but after 20+ calls, they gave up because they
kept on going over the same basic solutions that normally get posted here.
After cheching this out the 100th time in about as many different ways, it's
not the problem. This particular person gets so frustrated sometimes that he
reformats his entire hard drive - very extreme.
My only solution for this so far is to go through a full blown Repair off of
the CDs. This is time consuming and also requires bypassing around 150
drivers that the CD doesn't have of course. I'm not about to gather and load
up a CD/flash or HDD drive just for this purpose although it's getting to the
point where it's becoming so difficult that I just might. I even have to
reload Iexplorer 7 now after this repair operation.
The suggestion to just restore a previous image MAY work the odd time. My
experience with this is that IF it works, it doesn;t work 100% and the
degradation of the system still continues. Repeated restores will definetely
lead nowhere.
So, what are the visible problems?
a) Slowdown of some operations degrading to slowdown of all systems. This
is even apparent when booting up.
b) Taskmanager reports no problems initially (very high system idle) than
eventually leads to any running program(s) using all of the CPU time.
c) Many system svhost running.
d) Countless Spyware programs detecting no problems.
e) Two different Virus programs reporting nothing.
f) Memory is at 1G and virtual memory set very high.
g) Complete cleanup of the registry doesn't help or is marginal.
g) Lots off room on the hard drive for swapping or defragging does nothing.
h) Last but not least is the fact that my work thick client PCs, which are
XP Pro OS, have none of these problems and are completely installed with
digitally signed programs through Microsoft.