Computer: 2004 Presario, 2.6 Gig Processor, 512 MB RAM, 120 Gig HD, under warranty.Operating System: XP SP1.Comments: Runs like a 286; very slow moving from program to program; slow when shutting down. Complete disk wipe system recovery has been done; non-disk wipe system recovery has been done; Ad-Awre SE installed, Current Noron anti-virus installed and updated. Sytem set for "fastest operation".
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When I start the laptop first thing, the time showing doesn't change, even though minutes are passing. It takes about ten minutes from turning on the PC to getting Internet Explorer to open up. Or even to run Solitaire or open Notepad. I wonder if my ZoneLabs Security System is causing some of this slowness. Lately, I've been having to turn off the power to my laptop manually to get it to shut down.I regularly edit and keep my start up programs to a minimum, but include the programs Mozy (backup) and ZoneAlarm Security. I ran HijackThis and the log file is below. I've been puzzled why ZoneLabs has two scanning processes running at the same time.
This computer is a Dell desktop, win xp with a fast processor. It's glitching up a was hoping I could get some advice. It's my bosses computer and he is having alot of problims with it and its starting up.
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Would someone mind taking a look at my hijack this log and let me know if there's a problem. My computer has been running awfully slow and hanging quite a bit lately.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 1:07:36 PM, on 9/21/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Dell computer with Windows XP SerPac 2.Computer boots very slowly - about 5 minutes. I have cleaned out the startup files, defraged, used several registry cleaners, etc., but no luck.Tried to boot from the OEM-supplied XP CD but system doesn't recognize it. Tried to go to setup and repair/reinstall operating system by pressing F8 on startup but doesn't work.
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Long story but I've been having some serious issues with my dell desktop and XP... here's the story in chronilogical order. My system was running fine other than the fact that a friend noticed the hard drive was clicking frequently when the system was idle (about every 2 seconds) - he suggested I may have a virus. My own virus scan/shield (PC-cillin) never identified anything. I installed Avast and ran a boot scan - some form of Trojan was found and deleted. Some form of Adware was also found and deleted. Sometime either just before or immediately after the boot scan I started having problems. XP would startup quite quickly. I would log into one of the two user profiles (home edition of XP) but when I tried to launch IE it would sit for 10 minutes and not connect to anything. After about 10 minutes the page would finally load and everything would seemingly work fine. Note that during this time I could go to cmd and ping sites no problem. I started troubleshooting and realized that it was not just IE that would sit and hang - other system applications such as System Properties, Add Remove Programs, etc would take about 10 minutes immediately after startup before they would do anything. Once the system "woke up" it would seem like everything operated fine. To try to cure this I tried; - uninstalling several unnecessary applications- uninstalled Avast - installed AVG and scanned (everything clean)- removed all programs from Startup / Run - disconnected mapped drives, removed sharing from folders - resetting IE to defaults. None of which solved the problem. I tried booting into safemode and the system did seem to operate much better but of course I couldn't browse the web etc.I since reinstalled Avast and reran the bootscan - came up clean. I have just recently tried System Restore to a date where everything was fine. Now XP won't start up. I get to the profile page, choose my profile and it just hangs on a blank desktop. what I haven't tried yet is booting into safemode and running a virus scan. With the system restore causing me to hang I'm not 100% sure I can even boot into safe mode but will try when I'm back home tonight. If I'm successful I'll likely undo the system restore, turn off system restore, run virus scan in safemode.
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To troubleshoot this, I ran Sysinternals Process Monitor (Procmon.exe) and observed some strange behaviour for explorer.exe. Every time I select a root folder on J for opening (using mouse or keyboard), explorer enumerates all sub-folders recursively which consumes several seconds if folder contains a lot of sub-folders and files. In the meantime, explorer remains unresponsive. Here is an example (merely selecting FreeCommanderPortable in J drive using mouse or keyboaad
I'm first going to post my Computer specs before I go into what's happening.My computer use to and still is(not as much for some reason unknown reason)just switches off completely, no Windows is logging off or anything. Sometimes when I put my computer into Hibernate, I get a BSOD and when I switch my computer off or on it takes awhile to get into Windows(I think that's because of Panda Internet security, kills system resources) Also, XP freezes..I can do everything with the keyboard like get to Task Manager but basically the whole desktop freezes.I'm not sure when it started to do all this, and I doubt it's a Virus or any other malicious content. It's just even with 3gbs of RAM, XP seems slow, I can feel how and when my computer is going fast from when I upgraded my RAM from 2-3gb but I'm not feeling it because of the hanging.
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View 14 Replies View RelatedI can't place exactly when this started, but I'd say maybe 2-3 months ago. The computer just seems to be hanging all the time: windows sometimes take a long time to open, programs hang, frequent "sorry, gotta close this program" messages, etc, etc.
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I have XP pro.
I recently reformatted my HP Pavilion laptop back to Windows XP. I didn't back the specs up, so now in the Device Manager, it has a lot of black exclamation marks in yellow circles. I installed Belarc onto it using a flash drive and this is what I got:....
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N [CD-ROM drive]
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
FUJITSU MHY2160BH [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro USB Device (2.05 GB) -- drive 1 1984 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM 1' has 1024 MB....
Hello everyone , i have read a lot of posts about slow pc in normal mode but i cant find any help. My PC Starts up very slow... WinRAR , Winamp .. starts also slow , for example i download a file which is rared. i press Open and then it stop responding for awhile
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View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I start my computer, instead of the "Welcome to Windows" dialog box coming up, my computer just hangs at the blue screen. It never did this before. What's the problem? BTW, XP Pro SP2 and I use the CTRL+ALT+DEL to get into my computer instead of the other thing. Everything works fine in safe mode.
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