Need advice for best approach for root cause analysis

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I'm hoping someone here can help guide me in my search for the root
cause of a chronic windows XP problem I have.

Periodically after powering up after hibernation, my laptop becomes so
sluggish that even running diagnostic tools is painfully time
consuming.

I imagine that some application somewhere is hogging some resource,
but all my efforts to investigate have been fruitless. I've looked at
the event logging for tell tale signs or trends I can investigate.
I've used an application called Process Explorer to try to see what
app is causing the problem, I've tried using task manager to see which
app/process is using too much memory or cpu resources.

Nothing seems to stand out as a problem.

Can anyone recommend a course of action, diagnostic tool, or any other
method I could use to find the root cause of these annoying and
frustrating performance problems?

Thanks,
J
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