Re: computer getting slow for not the usual reasons

7 last startup Errors in System, one last shutdown Warning in application.

Most cases the right click menu appears ok, including many examples on at
page.

I am registered at aumba and have used hijackthis, but it really did not
seem relevant here, especially since reinstall had the same condition.

Event logs seem the most likely, since there are errors and warnings. I will
check out "HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs", however it looks like it
will need my undivided attention, I will ASAP, but not right now. Thanks.

Just now I looked and I see error and warnings everyday and they are
different. I should look into all of them? That is overwhelming.

Paul

"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OeW8BqPVHHA.1200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Paul

Have you looked in the system and application logs for Warning and
Error Reports in Event Viewer for the last boot. These can be
difficult to interpret so post copies here. Disregard Information
Reports.
You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the
meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and
Description are important.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using
copy and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no
further information. http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and
double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which
appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and
close Event Viewer. Now start your message (email) and do a paste
into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste
after exiting from Event Viewer.
Another thought:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Malware -notwithstanding what you say.

Install and run HijackThis:
Download HijackThis (Freeware)
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/

Finally run HijackThis and post the HijackThis log to the HijackThis
forum here:
http://aumha.net/

You will need to register with Aumha to be able to post.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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paulmars wrote:
No spyware, adware, malware, virus, etc. Amply free space.
Defragged. Cookies and temp files deleted.

After two weeks, I finally gave up and zeroed the entire harddrve
and reinstalled xp and security apps. The condition re-appeared.

Sometimes task mgr cpu usage is very high, other times it is
quite low. I invistigated all running processes in task mgr and
nothing that does not belong is there.

Only three items in msconfig Startup and they are all legitimate
and have been there forever.

I downloaded 3 different memory testers, two if which ran all
night (different nights) and found no problems.

Computer acts like I removed 1/2 the ram. It just gets too busy
much faster then previously. It did for about two weeks before I
zeroed the HDD and it is still like that after reinstall xp.

I totally give up...what could it be. I had installed no new
programs. A few hours ago, I right clicked on the desktop to make a new
dir
and the context menu poped up and I choose new folder and the
hour glass appeared and I waited over 5 minutes for it to make
the new folder. Nothing else was opened. This is an extreme
example of what I deal with, but u get the idea. Sometimes when it is
starting to get slow, I will open task mgr
or something else, and it will not open, then maybe 15 minutes
later it will open. Or I will try and close an app and it wont,
but maybe 1,2,5,12 minutes later it will close.

As long as I keep just a few things open, it usually does not get
too slow, but sometimes I am not that lucky.

One thing that I can not do anymore at all is upload videos to
youtube. It starts ok, but the upload gets slower and slower and
finally freezes. Nothing else is frozen, just the upload percent.
This is how I first noticed this condition on my last xp install
and it continues today. Even closing all unneeded apps and
starting the upload and leaving the computer will not get the
entire file uploaded. However, from what I said above, this is
not the only thing to causes my system to slowdown and sometimes
freeze. Very rarely does the entire computer freeze, because I
can usually since the slowness getting intolerable and I close
somethings. HELP!

PS: I wrote this is notepad and saved it to desktop. When I
opened it, it took 12 seconds to open in notepad.


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