Re: My XP pro system with 1GB ram is excruciatingly slow (explorer

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Thank you so much for the response.

The first thing I disabled, an Ewido Anti-Spyware .dll seems to have helped
my system. It's possible that it's just an artifact of re-booting, which
sometimes helps, but I went to Youtube and could actually watch a video
without pauses and jumps.

One question though. In the .dll list, I see a bunch of *.nls files such as
unicode.nls, sortkey.nls as well as a bunch of index.dats. Is this something
to worry about or disable?

Thanks,
Steve
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"John Jay Smith" wrote:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

with process explorer click on explorer.exe and look at the list of dlls
loaded
investigate the non microsoft ones


good luck!




"stevebo" <steve.silberberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D0E35968-8F47-4631-80F1-1AD07803BA88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I hope someone can help. My Dell Latitude with 1GB Ram running XP pro is
unbelievably slow. I suspect it's explorer.exe as it often floats to the
top
of the CPU cycles in Task Manager.

I have tried Spybot, Ad-Aware SE, Trojan Hunter, HijackThis, CCleaner and
several others to determine if I have a virus, adware, malware, or a
parasite. It always comes back clean.

Yet even something as simple as clicking inside a form's text box or
alt-tabbing between windows can take several seconds. Web browsing is
painful -- I use my crappy Win2K system for that as it's much faster.

The only solution I've seen that I have NOT tried is msconfig, but I have
no
idea what I should or shouldn't load as I don't want to make the system
unstable.

To see more background on my issue, check out my discussion on geekstogo:
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=121170&hl=

I'm considering buying a whole new system, but think there has to be a
better way.

Anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks,
Steve

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