Ray said:
I went to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer. For today:
The Application Log shows lots of errors with the Source column showing
WinMgmt, Perfcts, rasctrs, PerfNet, PerfDisk, and Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
It looks like you have some Performance Monitoring running or trying to
run, some of that monitoring can slow things down. The monitoring may
be perfectly legit, but in reality you don't need Performance Counters
running all the time for nothing, server administrators may keep a few
very select counters running at all times to keep an eye on critical
performance indicators but otherwise monitoring may needlessly slow down
the system. Might the monitoring/attempted monitoring be caused by
System Mechanic? I would uninstall that "thing" and see what happens.
This tool may be helpful:
Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tool : Extensible Performance Counter List
(exctrlst.exe)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...83-b7ec-4da6-92ab-793193604ba4&displaylang=en
If you have tools that you downloaded from the internet, tools that
claimed that they would increase or boost your computer performance, get
rid of them, other than getting in the way most of these things don't do
much of anything on NT operating systems, most of the time they do the
opposite of what they claim to do! If you are new to Windows
NT/2000/XP, a Windows 98 user who just recently made a move to the NT
platform, leave *all* your Windows 98 tweak tools behind! These things
might have been useful on W9x but few, if any of them, are of any use on
NT systems.
The Security Log had no entries.
The System Log shows lots of errors with the Source column showing
Service Control Manager, RasMan, RemoteAccess, and DCOM.
If your machine is a stand alone (not part of a network) disable or set
unnecessary services to Manual start. Keep a log of what you disable so
that you may reverse your actions if things don't work as expected. The
information here should be helpful:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kb...servicestoimproveworkstationsperformance.html
For the time being don't worry about DCOM errors, those are usually
mostly innocuous.
What is the history of your machine? Was this machine upgraded from W9x
or was it a clean install?
Being that the symptoms persist in safe-mode, and being that all
unnecessary services and third party applications are disabled in
safe-mode, this would indicate to me that there is something buried deep
inside the operating system that isn't working properly. To tell you
the truth your registry cleaning activities leave me suspicious. A
repair install may fix your problems but my usual way of dealing with
machines that have been "cleaned" is to do a new *clean* installation of
the operating system, that is the only registry cleaner that I approve
of! After doing a clean installation and telling folks to reinstall all
their applications few of the folks that I help ever use registry
cleaners again, or if they do they don't come back to see me when they
have problems!
John
