Re: Flashing egg-timer and slow pc

Thanks for coming back to me so quickly :-)

Some hardware changed as NTL had to give us a new modem, since broadband was
not installed in the house when we moved in.

We did use to have Spybot and Adware on the pc at some point but that just
during the free trial period. It stopped the annoying pop ups we used to get
by the truck loads but the internet connection was quite slow already and
although it did improve a bit because pop ups stopped it was just noticeable
and no more. We do not have these 2 programs (trial period finished) anymore
but then pop ups have not come back.

We have AntiVir Personal Edition for XP as an anti-virus. This has worked
pretty well for us so far. We update it very often and run scans on a regular
basis. We did have some trojans at some point which were detected and the
files in questions deleted at the time of scanning, but the last few scans
came up all clear.

We have Zone Alarm as a firewall. At the time of the "pop ups problem" there
were btp.exe and mcm.exe which kept on asking for access to internet and we
thought that was what was the problem. But since we used the Spybot and
Adware programs, they have not come up again.

I think that the way i would describe our internet operation at the moment
is actually more "segmented" than just slow going actually....going to the
beat of the egg-timer flashing in a way... Even just a basic search on Google
is hard work...The search result is displayed quickly but there another few
seconds pass before we can click on one of the results as if it's there but
not quite ready yet to operate the links...

We did install the Service Pack 2 some time before we moved house.

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> Disk Cleanup wouldn't directly affect the symptoms you describe.
> You likely have "Baddies" which include Malware/Spyware and
> possibly Viruses &-or Trojans. The standard cocktail of programs
> to detect/remove this include AdAware, Spybot, CW Shredder &
> the MS AntiSpyware (Beta). By the way, is your XP instance at
> Service Pack 2 level ? Also - which Security software do you use
> (Anti-Virus & Firewall ) ?
> The usual indication of "Baddies" is a noticeable reduction in speed
> of the PC or "Quirky" Internet operation. When you moved, did
> any of your Internet hardware change ? ( Like a new modem or
> router ).
>
> "Misterpizza" <Misterpizza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:83BFA162-A16E-4D99-AEDD-BA7BC8B8F290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > For the last 2 months or so (coinciding with when we moved house and
> > therefore disconnected and re-connected the computer and reset or
> > broadband
> > connection), the pc has not been "itself"...
> > It is pretty slow going, more so when it comes to using the internet or
> > read
> > e-mails on outlook express, and the most annoying thing is the egg-timer
> > flashing next to the cursor on a constant basis, as if something was
> > running
> > and slowing everything down...
> >
> > I have done a disk clean-up which did not make and difference to the way
> > the
> > pc runs.
> >
> > Since the internet shortcut i had on the desktop did not work anymore
> > either
> > I went on the Start menu/Programs/Accessories/windows
> > explorer/Tools/folder
> > options/File types and made sure that the file asociations for internet
> > files
> > were correct ie read: "C:\Program Files\Internet
> > Explorer\iexplore.exe"......The egg timer usually stops and the internet
> > runs
> > much faster. However I have to keep going back and do it again as it works
> > only temporarily.... Each time I go back, there is a %1 or even a -no home
> > added after the "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe". And i
> > just
> > can't work this one out at all.....
> >
> > Can anyone help???
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
>
>
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