RE: "Not Responding" Error Message

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"johnmw1" wrote:

Hi,
For about the last two months or so my pc has been continually hanging and I
keep getting the error message "Not Responding" This hanging happens in any
program or thing that I maybe doing at the time, ie reading emails, using
word, or just surfing the net. Anywhere Anytime. It will hang for 30 secs to
a minute or a bit more before it starts responding and doing what it's
supposed to. This is happening about every five minutes or so but really
there is no real scale to this and it just happens whenever.

I run an upto date anti virus and firewall, so I'm assuming I have no
nasties lurking anywhere.

I got the impression that my system started acting this way after an
automatic update for Windows XP but of course I would never know if that was
the true cause or not.

I had almost got to the point where I was considering doing a reformat
because I believed but was not sure that it just maybe five or six years of
crud that I have collected, and that perhaps my HDD and system just could not
handle it anymore.

Last week through the run button I ran SFC/SCANNOW which I have absolutely
no idea what that was, but it asked for my XP disc which I put in and away it
went for about 30-40 mins. I'm assuming that it restored XP back to its
original form?

Surprise surprise, suddenly I stop getting this " Not Responding" message
and the old system seems to have it's old vim and vigour back again, and it
responds and does things the way it used to. Hooray for that I'm thinking
because I won't have to do that dreaded reformat.

Friday I got 8 auto updates to download which I clicked on to update. They
seemed to take forever to download and install and I had to reboot finally
after they were all done.

You guessed it I now have this hanging problem again and cannot for the life
of me know which update could be causing me the problems. These are the
updates I got yesterday, would anyone have any ideas as to which maybe
causing me so much grief?
Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB959426) Friday, 17 April 2009
Automatic Updates
Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB961373) Friday, 17 April 2009
Automatic Updates
Windows XP Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP
(KB963027) Friday, 17 April 2009 Automatic Updates
Windows XP Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - April 2009 (KB890830)
Friday, 17 April 2009 Automatic Updates
Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB956572) Friday, 17 April 2009
Automatic Updates
Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB952004) Friday, 17 April 2009
Automatic Updates
Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB960803) Friday, 17 April 2009
Automatic Updates
Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB923561) Friday, 17 April 2009
Automatic Updates

I thankyou for any help that I may get in advance.

Cheers
John


User Profile Hive Cleanup Service:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en

Go through these Cleaning steps:
1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window
you will see these Options:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs
| Advanced .

Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called
[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on
[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [
Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.

Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your
browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:
Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable
the Non/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one
later and see which is the culprit .
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256
Scan for malware from here:
SuperAntispyware - Free
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html

Run a scan from here on-line:
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Download Avast Cleaner (off-line scanner) from here:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html

Run disk clean up then this command:
sfc /scannow

If you still have no joy try to send us the error messages from the event
viewer.
- Have a look in the Event Viewer for error messages(X) that can shed some
light and post it back in your next post by performing the following:
Open a Notepad, customize or minimize to the taskbar as you will need it
later for this step to copy the error message on it.
Open a run command and type in:
eventvwr.msc click [OK] you will get the Event viewer control Panel.
click on each of these:
Application
System
Security
Look in the right Pane/window for error message with red (X) or Yellow
exclamation mark /!\ , double click each one to get more info about the
causer.
On the Event error properties message you will see:
Up Arrow
Down arrow
Two pages
Click on the two pages to copy the error message then bring up the Notepad
you opened earlier and right click on the first line and select Paste from
the list, this will paste the error message on a Notepad.
Please don't duplicate the error message one of each kind will be sufficient.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us
HTH,
nass
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http://www.nasstec.co.uk

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