what is this tiny little window that keeps popping up on my screen every two or three seconds. my operating system is windows xp home edition. i have already run the virus scan (mcafee)it reads winbo32 and inside the window DOH what can i do to get rid of it? thanks for any help i can get.
View 3 RepliesI am having a weird stutter(pause like) Thing going on. It happens every 2-3 seconds. I noticed it in a game (Vampire bloodlines) But it does it also when i am at the desktop. It is accompanied by a slight crackle from the speakers. I updated and reistalled my soundcard Drivers. Updated My Vid card drivers. Ran Spybot and adaware, And even used norton system works. I have no idea what is causing this but i cant play games because its like Lag in a multiplayer game! Below is my Dxdiag. Let me know if a can provide more information.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAbout every 5 seconds the computer lags i looked into it a little bit and noticed about every 5 seconds my computer usage goes from 0 to 51 then back down.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded OS on Dell Dimension XPS t600 to Windows Xp SP2. Witgh SP2, it freezes every 6 seconds for about a second and then releases. It is consistent as if it is polling for something. Even the hard drive crunching stops for that second. I have tried installling all MS updates but it did not help.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell Latitude laptop running win xp. I recently cleand my system using spybot S&D, Adware and Hijack. My problem now is I noticed that my audio would cut out about every two seconds regardless of the audio source. Then noticed that the cpu usage meter mirrored this time interval going from 0% to 35% every 2 seconds.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI log into my account, windows loads up and during start up, explorer.exe just crashes, it completly removes itself from the task manager every 20 seconds, desktop icons then dissapear with only the wallpaper/background showing. This is a real problem, I've used Spy Doctor and Kaspersky, it found a few malware and trojans and my system appears to be clean however my explorer.exe continues to crash every 20 seconds, forcing me to launch programs through task manager in order for me to function on the Computer. I've read up this problem throughout google and tried some of the advice thats been given to others with a similar problem as the one im facing with however it still crashes.
View 14 Replies View RelatedAs soon as I turn on my computer Dell + XP and I see the sign in screen I type in my password to my account admin account and seconds later is says signing off. I tried restarting in safe mode and last known good configuation mode something like that
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just recently replaced my 200 gig ide harddrive with a 1 TB SATA hardrive, as my old one kicked the bucket. I have reinstalled windows xp and all drivers and got everything working. It is working better than ever ,as my old harddrive was sluggish for some time before it died. But now i am unable to play any 3d games. They boot up fine ,but whenever anything is rendererd in 3d it hangs at random intervals for a good 10-15 seconds then continues for a few seconds and hangs again. I have tried half life 2, swat 4 and ceaser 4. Swat 4 even hangs in the menu screen.
View 3 Replies View Relatedmy computer keeps freezin every 10 seconds then stops then again every 10 seconds, and i dont know why i checked task manager and was able to find out every 10 seconds this new thing shows up called mshchy.com and it dissapears right after the freezing is done which last for like less then a second.i tried scanning and deleting the spyware but still it keeps coming.i am using Windows Xp Professional, and also this is a pretty old PC.
View 3 Replies View Relatedmy problem is that my system keeps spiking to 57% then back down again for a split second every 2 seconds. This causes my system to suddenly pause then unpause again, very frustrating. Everything is affected- video, sound, mouse cursor.At around the same time my system begins spiking, my internet connection goes down(talk about a bad day).so when i restarted my computer the internet connection starts "Aquiring network address" then it gives up but the funny thing is the other two computers in my house which are using wireless cards to access the net are working while my computer which uses a wire to connect to the router is not getting any internet access.i'm getting help for this problem within the next few days but i thought i would put this out in a troubleshoot forum (and possibly the solution) for the benefit of anyone experiencing the same.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIt's just a blink, but long enough to momentarily freeze the cursor and delay a letter while typing. As I look at the Task Manager Performance graph, the CPU usage goes from 0 to 22 every 4 seconds, creating a long line of spikes. The System Idle Process, which really measures the amount of CPU not being used, is always at 99 when no programs are running. So, it seems like there is something "polling" every 4 seconds and it's hanging me up. I have spybot, adaware, hijackthis, Mcafee firewall and AVG anti-virus. Please let me know what you would like to see.
View 4 Replies View Relatedstays hung for about 52 seconds, then unhangs for 52 seconds, then hangs for 52 seconds, I am running an older Compaq desktop with a Pentium III processor, and a 30 GB hard drive (approx. 11 GB free). The system has 256k RAM.It is running Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2 (build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301_1519). It also has Norton Internet Security 2004 (v7.0.6.17) and Norton Antivirus (10.0.1.13) with current virus definitions.Sometime in mid-September, my husband (who uses this machine, not me) complained that the machine was hanging on a regular basis. He bought and installed System Mechanic 5 from ioio. (No other new software or hardware was installed immediately prior to the appearance of the problem.)He found a number of problems, cleaned them up, defragged the disk, but the hanging problem remained..
He asked me for my help several days ago, and using the information gleaned from this site, we've downloaded and run the Ewido 3.5 scan (and fix - both free), and then Xoftspy v4.16. I purchased a registration key for Xoftspy, and we've run the fix utility from that, cleaning up the threats, but the hanging problem remains.I'm attaching a log that was created tonight from Hijackthis v1.99.1 in the hopes that you can save us from this problem! I have better things to do than struggle with this.
When I go to adjust date/time, I see hours, minutes and seconds showing digitally. But in the desktop tray, the seconds do not show. Is there a way to get the seconds to show?
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy Inspiron 8100 laptop had a hard drive failure - click of death. After replacing the HD (installed with XP and one I know works) the system boots up but very slowly. I should say that it did the same thing before replacing the HD when I was trying to run a disc recovery CD.It's slow right from the BIOS POST - which took about 15mins, and right on throught the WIN XP startup. Took 1hr to get to login and over 2 hours to load system programs.It seems to freeze for 20secs then work for a brief moment. EG I have to hold down a key for 20secs, then 1 character will appear. This brief period of activity coincides with a flicker of the HD activity LED. This was the same pattern even when I checked the BIOS setup on first booting up - so I don't think this is a Windows issue.Running a dignostic is going to be difficult as it would take days to install and run at this rate.
View 7 Replies View Relatedi recently just got this problem, umm the first thing i started to notice was my startup becoming extreamly slow, at that point i thought there was a problem, so when i finally got through the startup, i move my mouse around and like every few seconds it would skip, so basically you move it and then 3 seconds later it skips so you basically see a lag spike or something. it continues for awhile and then stops like maybe 10 min later. but then starts again everytime i open a program ex: counter strike, Azureus, microsoft word.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am running windows xp professinal with sp2, when I force my pc to the standby mode, it lasts only 2 seconds then it get out from the standby mode although nothing happened to make the windows do this
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm not sure if this is the right section, but I'm seriously having problems with my Personal Computer a of today.At times when I'm using my computer, everything freezes up for about 5 seconds and turns out to look like this on my screen:And I'm seriously confused. I reboot and everything is fine, until it happens again! Even my Keyboard and Mouse freeze up at random times. Sometimes it's just my mouse, and sometimes it's just my keyboard.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhen I right click on dead shortcuts, my system freezes for about 30 seconds or so. Closest thing I could find that describes this is this KB article, but that applies to right clicking files/folders and not shortcuts, so its solution doesn't work.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am running an XP system on a residential cable connection. Yesterday afternoon, after my ISP went AWOL for about an hour, I noticed that it was taking me 20+ seconds to view some pages while surfing. after leaving it for a day (to eliminate the possibility of peak-hours being the culprit), things haven't changed. I've run AdAware, Spybot, and SpySweeper, and they all came up relatively clean (nothing I could see that would cause a problem like that).
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to figure out what's causing a CPU spike approx. every 5 seconds on my laptop running on windows xp sp3. The spike is generally around 25-30%. I'm using process explorer and see that services.exe is the process. Drilling down into this I see 3 TIDs that repeatedly spike every 5 seconds. All 3 are 'kernel32.dll!Create Thread+0x22'. When I drill down and display the stack for each of these threads I see various lists which don't mean anything to me. It always seems to end with 'kernel32.dll!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1ba'.
I'm assuming I installed or configured something at some point in time and my laptop is trying to reach something or do something that's no longer valid. Can someone help me with the next step of determining what's the cause of this spike? When I boot into safe mode this spike is not present. I've done extensive scans of my laptop for any malware and nothing is detected and I see no evidence of any ill side effects other than the continual spike every 5 seconds.
Another one of my rigs is crashing within a few seconds of booting up and logging in. Now the problem: upon booting the system and logging in, it will crash usually within a few seconds of logging in. Though, sometimes it crashes after being logged in for a few minutes and sometimes it doesn't even get to the login screen but crashes right after POST. Most of the time it crashes and there is what seems to be a 5 second long BIOS beep code. There isn't a BIOS beep code all the time, sometimes it would just freeze and lock up. Sometimes it would even crash in safe mode. System restore works temporarily, as in, I do a system restore and it will work for 1 or 2 days then the problem would start again.
At first I ignored the beep code and assumed it was Windows, so I created a new partition on my hard drive and installed another instance of Win XP. I didn't want to reformat because I still need time to backup my data. At first it seemed like it worked but soon, the problem started again, so I realized it wasn't Windows or software related but probably hardware.I then decided to open the case and clean the inside since I figured it might be an over heating issue. It wasn't very dirty inside as I had just cleaned it a few months ago.I cleaned it yesterday with a can of compressed air and I also checked the connections and RAM and it seemed okay. So far it hasn't been crashing, but I ain't holding my breath.Also using a program called Hardware Monitor I've been monitoring the temperatures and volts. The temperatures seem to be okay. As for the volts.
dear guys my sound sticks for a few seconds when playing music, and watching videos, it sticks for a few secs every few mins. i have downloaded the latest drivers and updates for both sound card and graphic card, its making me crazy,
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have an MSDOS application (point of sale) which works well in XP, except when it prints the ticket. It lasts approx 20 seconds before it decides (XP) to print the rest of it. If I close the application, it prints it immediately. Does anybody know how to force it to print immediately?
View 5 Replies View RelatedEvery time I try to open a file (whether it be an .mp3 or .txt or whatever) my computer pauses for about 7 seconds and then opens the file. I know it's not a problem with a specific program because it happens to virtually all the files on my computer.
View 14 Replies View Relatedevery time im turning on my xp firewall within seconds it was turned off. i just encountered with total xp security problem i.e, a fake software. i have a file named abhhqq.exe but it can't be deleted, i think b'cos of this only problem still persist.
View 1 Replies View Relatedin the last few days it's hanging for 20-40 seconds and i see 'connecting to js.forrestersurveys.com' at the bottom of the browser (firefox 1.0.4) window -if it was just for the initial logon, i wouldn't mind, but every link is the same.
View 6 Replies View RelatedA little AUTOPLAY window appears for a few seconds and then disappear about every 3 to 5 mins.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have an HP a305w Pavilion. It's a refurbished system from a very reputable source and has caused me no problems over 2 years. I do have problems with the CD ROM tho. 1) When playing a music CD, the first 5-6 seconds is very static-y and muffled sounding. It doesn't matter if it's a bought CD or one I burned myself. 2) There is good 15 second delay between songs, and I can hear the CD ROM 'starting up' again. How can I fix both of these issues?
View 19 Replies View RelatedMy HP 7310 hesitates when I request a print job. The paper loads but then I wait about 30 to 40 seconds before it prints. It will not do multiple pages without the hesitation either. I've removed the HP software and reloaded several times and even HP has not come up with an solution. They said XP Serv Pac 3 was the problem and I removed it but the printer still acts the same.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen I am online I notice that every now and again my system suddenly freezes for about 20 seconds, then whatever I have typed suddenly appears.I thought it might be my virus software or VCOM's Fix-It utility, but suddenly I've noticed it on my sister's computer,on my wife's computer and my mother's computer.Anyone else having this problem and is there a fix?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm having a slow start-up problem, which never used to be a problem. I am running Windows XP SP2. When I startup or restart, the screen goes to black for a few seconds before going to the Log On Page. Once it goes to the log on page, I click my user name. It then takes anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes to load to the state of use. Within one minute from clicking my username, I am brought to Windows Screen, but my background and my icons do not load for another 2 or 3 minutes. During this time period, if I scroll over Start or any other command buttons, my mouse turns into the hour glass. I am receiving no error messages, and once my computer loads completely it seems to be working fine. Though, I think it is running slower than normal in general.
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