Running Windows XP. When starting up it takes about 20 minutes before I can use the computer - everything is like swimming through treacle. There is a lot of activity noise from 'the box'. When this has finished whirring away the computer is OK to use.
View 14 RepliesMy computer has been working slowly lately, as well as programs becoming so slow they are non-functional watching movies halfway through. This has never happened before. My OS is XP. I have run a virus scan (McAffee), as well as Ad Aware 6, trying to fix the problem, but it has not gone away.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm not sure what's wrong. When I use the internet, the pages take a really long time to load. I can't watch videos without it buffering every 15 seconds. This started a couple of days ago after I downloaded spybot search and destroy. I used it on my computer for the first time and I guess it messed something up with my configurations?I also keep getting a popup that says "Connect SVCamera" while I'm trying to access different sites.
View 14 Replies View RelatedMy computer is running very slowly, and I cannot figure out why. I defragmented, ran a virus scan, etc. I also use adaware and spybot regularly to check for spyware. Nothing seems to help. I am confused because this computer has run well up until recently. It is older we purchased it in about 2002-2003.In case this is important--it is a Dell and I'm running Windows XP.
View 14 Replies View RelatedRecently I have noticed that my PC has been loading things really slowly. When I start my computer, there is a black screen with a loading bar at the bottom, which takes atleast five minutes to load. When I launch a game, it takes ages for it to start up and it also takes ages to join a server. I tried reformating, but it didn't help. When I was installing one of my games, I found that it took about 10 times as long to install. And while it was installing, I couldn't do anything else because it slowed everything down. It's like my RAM has been lowered or something. I am guessing it may be a hardware problem.
View 11 Replies View RelatedRecently my computer has been freezing and moving very slowly, my pc fan runs for an unusually long time, a lot more then it used to, and i get a black screen before my administration sign in page to log into the desktop, and then, the desktop takes another 2 minutes to fully load. I've tried uniblue registrybooster 2 and that didnt really help much even though it seemed to "fix" 630 errors i had on my computer. i posted a hijack log a week or so back and never got any replies or help so i tried to take matters into my own hand and now i seem to have made it worse.
View 14 Replies View Relatedhave just installed sp2 and things are running slowly. one of the main problems is that when i try to open "my computer" i get the flashlight and it takes a few minute to open. i have looked thru ms knowledge articles relating to sp2 but nothing fits the bill.
View 15 Replies View RelatedIgnore the siggie info; the problem is on a separate computer, a Compax laptop. There is 256MB physical memory and 2GB virtual memory. The C: disk has heaps of room on it.
It has Avast AV, Spybot, Adaware and Spyware Blaster and uses the XP firewall. All are up to date and all come up clean when checked. I do a monthly defrag and have Easy Cleaner and empty unnecessary files and surplus registry entries monthly. Despite all this it seems to run abnormally slowly, particularly when bringing up onboard stuff like OE, IE and other programs. Downloading internet sites seem pretty reasonable.
My computer has been running very slowly lately. I have 67 free gigs of space, so I wouldn't think that's the problem. It's slow in the following ways:programs seem to lag pretty badly when I have more than one open. Sometimes even when I only have one open. Could this be due to my computer's amount of RAM
View 5 Replies View RelatedI bought my dell M4300 only in July of this year off the internet!Since then i have had approx 20 BSOD, i have installed off the internet normal registry checks and i seemed to be on top of things. This is a little over my head though!Last week after a BSOD my computer started to run incrediably slowly. On loading, turning off, opening progs and even simple comands. Sometimes it runs smoother (like now) but that it worse case which is approx 80% of the time.Also sometimes on starting up it opens to a blank desktop with no icons or task bar so i have to restart.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am getting "runtime error 75" and pc is running dead slow.
View 11 Replies View RelatedMy computer boots slowly, loads websites slowly and goes slowly from page to page.If Flrman (or any moderator of the sight) solves this, I will be happy to make a donation to keep this site going.Lastly, how do I get to personal profile to log specs into my sig? Can't find link.
View 14 Replies View RelatedOK, my computer has been running very slowly over the last couple of years. I took it to someone to fix but the computer is still running rather slowly. I'm not sure if there is a virus, or if any programs that are installed on it are conflicting.
View 1 Replies View Relatedslow internet connection coupled with this "freedom hidden window" not responding message appearing - whether the two are connected I don't know
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy sister's computer is running very slowly, particularly at startup (which seems to take forever). I've got Panda antivirus software running and do reasonably regular spyware scans with AdAware, but am not sure if the problem is just that the computer is old with too little memory / overheating because it's on almost all the time / something else I haven't thought of. To help me determine what's going on, could someone much smarter than myself take a look at this HJT log and see if you see anything of concern?
View 14 Replies View Relatedanyone knows how to solve this? and my pc also shutdown so slowly? it takes like 5-10 minutes.
View 4 Replies View RelatedAfter I open Wordpad it takes 20 seconds before the cursor starts blinking and I can type. This just recently started. Any ideas as to what is causing this? It's so bothersome that I'm now using Notepad whenever possible but I'd much rather use Wordpad. I've scanned with several virus scanners and they all come up clean. Thanks
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've got xp sp2 and it's running just fine. The only problem is that it takes 5-10 seconds to open any program from a desktop shortcuts(AVG,Spyboot,Nero, Winamp).It is not a big deal but maybe somebody have some simple solution. This had been happening for the last couple of years and a few months ago I reinstalled Windows(clean install) but nothing changed.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have Windows XP. Pentium III 866. Dell Dimension 4100.
My RAM now loads slowly upon the bios check and every time the computer starts up, I get a blue screen of death.
I have run a memory check and it appears to be clean. I have run numerous antivirus programs and the computer now appears to be clean. However, I am still getting the blue screen of death. I have tried to attached some minidump files to this post and hope that someone can help to debug them
I have Kaspersky, Registry Mechanic, PerfectDisk, Spybot, SpywareBlaster, SpywareGuard, and Adaware. I run them all periodically, and I also regularly run CheckDisk. On top of this, however, my computer still loads slowly at the desktop (the XP splash screen only takes about 2 seconds to pass; I'm just saying it takes a long time when the PC loads at the desktop, the HDD LED staying on for about 2 minutes). What can I do to fix this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHave WIn XP pro SP1 with 1 Gb ram. About 2 months ago I got problems with desktop startup. Initially,my icons load with a default image and then update over about 6 - 8 seconds to display the correct image. Previously the desktop opened up with all icons correctly displayed. Anyone got any suggestions as to what might be causing this ? The rest of the system seems OK, I've tried going back a couple of months with system restore.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm having a little problem with my USB ports. I know they are USB 2.0 but are recognized as 1.0. Everytime I plug something in, it says "this device can run faster if connected to a 2.0 port" or something like that. Is there anyway to fix this, cause im transferring data very slowly and its very annoying. I tried to update the driver but it said there is no better or newer driver available.
View 11 Replies View RelatedMy laptop has just decided to run very slowly of late.So much so that I am unable to run certain programs. Some will load up but if you try and navigate through any screens etc the program will stop working (comes up with not responding in windows task manager).This is even happening with windows explorer.I've got Norton 360, which although it should automatically boot up at start up is failing to do so.I can't even get it to run to perfom a system scan.This leads me to think I may have a nasty virus or worse still failing hardware
View 13 Replies View RelatedI have a pc running XP Pro and suddenly it became extremely slow.It takes a couple of minutes to boot up.Everything responds slow on the pc.I ran adaware , spybot and cwshredder.these programmes did find a couple of things but still the pc is very slow.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've just started to notice that my Hard Disk has been losing 50-70mb a day. Like something hidden is slowly replicating or something. I have Norton Internet Security and Norton Anti-virus running always, and it shows nothing out of the ordinary.
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhen I scroll down the screen on a webpage the screen has a juddering jerky quality and moves pretty slowly,
View 6 Replies View RelatedI need help with my sis PC. She has a Gateway with a Pentium 4 processor, 512 Meg RAM and Windows XP home. When she tries to start an app it opens very slowly. I ran Spybot, Spywareblaster, Ad Aware, Windows antispyware all with no improvement. I ran msconfig and disabled all startup apps and all of the services expect for Microsoft apps. None of this has helped. All apps still open very slowly. Am I missing something?
View 16 Replies View RelatedThe problem is when i try to open excel file from network share which is shared on windows 2000 or windows xp pc , take too much time to open.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI set up a log through performance monitor that would give me a percentage of free space available and the time at which the percentage was available. I noticed a pattern, every five minutes the hard drive would lose around 300mb. As the free space percentages grew smaller and smaller so did the discrepancy of free space from five minutes prior. I then noticed that it was between a 15 second gap that some thing happened, I then used process monitor to try and see what was happening in that 15 second time frame, alas no real definitive cause could be ascertained. I tried to look for write, create, processes and even network activity that only happened with in the time frame, but nothing really jumped out. Maybe I overlooked something while going through the promon logs?
View 3 Replies View RelatedPerformance monitor that would give me a percentage of free space available and the time at which the percentage was available. I noticed a pattern, every five minutes the hard drive would lose around 300mb. As the free space percentages grew smaller and smaller so did the discrepancy of free space from five minutes prior. I then noticed that it was between a 15 second gap that some thing happened, I then used process monitor to try and see what was happening in that 15 second time frame, alas no real definitive cause could be ascertained. I tried to look for write, create, processes and even network activity that only happened with in the time frame, but nothing really jumped out.its overlooked something while going through the promon logs.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThere is a computer at home which is booting very slowly now. Besides doing the regular checks (anti-spyware/malware, HijackThis, etc.) I want to be able to look at a log (or a log viewer) after boot to know exactly what in the boot process is taking so long, what exactly is being run/loaded and how long it is taking. Is there a way I can see that in Windows? Or any reliable Freeware/Shareware tool?