Re: More Information About Environment

Chaplain Doug wrote:
When I am running an Excel workbook (which runs macro code that opens
and scans other workbooks), I find the following when monitoring
system performance:

CPU usage never goes above 4%
Network usage never goes above 0.02% (on a 1 GB network)
PF Usage never goes above 853 MB
Physical Memory available never goes below 2620124

It looks like the resources are fine. So what would cause a SLOW
system (the Excel process that used to take 40 seconds to complete
now takes over 5 minutes).

Windows XP, SP2. I have a system that has been running fine for a
few years. It has a 3 GHz processor and 4 GB of memory. Recently
everything is running much slower. Programs open up very slowly,
some Excel workbooks with macros run interminably long. Internet
browsing is slow.

The LAN is fine, as I can go to another system and it runs the same
processes and browses the net quickly. I have scanned for spyware
and viruses and removed spyware and found no viruses. What can
cause a system to bog down like this? Any suggestions on how I can
restore the system to its former vigor? Thanks for the help.
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The list of possibilities is almost endless.

It could be that the mother ship has directed your computer to send 250,000
emails advertising headless nails or some other innovative product.

You should first scour you system for malware.


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