recent slow down

[Guest]

Recently I have noticed my computer is responding terribly slow to
commands....I am running a desktop with an Intel P4 2.8 with ht and 2 gigs
of PC4000 ...This system is used for gaming mostly as well as e-mail and
surfing the web...what used to take MAYBE 5 seconds to open can now take up
to 2 minutes to open....I have the following programs with latest definitions
and run them religiously
Norton Security 2006 (antivirus antispam as well as firewall ) scans 3 times
a week
Sunbelt's Counterspy. scans twice a week
CCleaner..I run once a week
Executive software's Diskeeper runs every night
Bill Ps Winpatrol premium with nothing out of the ordinary showing
I run Tweaknow's registry cleaner to see what is going on as well,,The only
other recent changes I have made was connecting a 24" flat panel monitor and
upgrading my video card drivers for optimum resolution...
One thing I did find when doing the old %temp% was some files or whatever
they may be ... These are what they show as a name (all thirteen)
~DF5DCO ~DF7EO8 ~DF8AE7 ~DF40BF ~DF68EE ~DF220F ~DF4381
~DFB8D7 ~DFB273 ~DFCD7C ~DFDBAE ~DFF765 ~DFFCD0....Does
anyone know what these are and if maybe they are causing the problem ???...
By the way I am also connected to the net through a router (hardware
firewall) and have the fastest internet access available.. At&t Elite
service...My connection is as fast as ever so I do not think that has
anything to do with it and it is also not affecting my wifes laptop who also
runs the same programs (not affected) All help would be
appreciated...........Thanks in advance Drew

 

[Guest]

Could be due to spyware or malware. I know that you run Counterspy, but there
is not one spyware/malware program that gets all of it. I would also
recommend that you get and run Ad-aware and Spybot (and possibly run Windows
Defender).

Also malware can cause problems, and it's possible that your virus program
and/or the spyware programs might not catch it. You can try Windows Malicious
Sofware Removal Tool:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx.

You have nothing to worry about with the temp files. They are harmless. They
only take up space. If you don't want them you can run Disk Cleanup (Start ->
Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup) to get rid of them.

Another thing you can check for is warnings or errors in the Event Viewer.
This could possibly give you a better idea of what is happening. Go to Start
-> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer. Look through the 3
sections to find any warnings or errors. I would go for the errors first.
Look at the Event displayed and enter this number into www.eventid.net. This
will give you an idea of where the errors are coming from and possibly how to
resolve them.

BTW do you have a significantly longer startup time than normal?

-Dan

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following article:

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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[Guest]

Thanks for the response...as for your first statement...I should have
mentioned that I do already run more than one antispy program and run scans
always...Disk cleanup does not touch those files at all and they will not
allow me to delete them...I am told by the computer that they are in use
??and as for the startup....Yes it is longer than normal,,,another thing I
should have mentioned...Sorry about that....

 

[Guest]

Hi Will..Thanks for your response...I followed your advice and did what the
page requested....I have had some experience with Hijack this and I have
already posted there as well (Tom Coyote.org)...Nothing yet...I have run 4
antivirus scans from 4 different companies...I have run antispy scans from
Ewido,Counterspy,Spysweeper,,Ad-Aware and Spybot....Nothing found and nothing
cured... I was thinking more about this and remembered recently that I had
swapped out my 19" lcd for a 24" lcd and was wondering if that could do it as
it was just about the same time but my system is more than powerful enough to
run it...Video card is a BFG 6200oc with latest nvidia drivers and I did
follow all instructions for install...I am about ready to wipe the drive and
reinstall so all help would be appreciated.....Thanks again
Drew

 

[Guest]

Don't think it would be the bigger monitor causing the problem, but just to
make sure try re-connecting your older monitor to your system and see if
there's any improvement.

If there's not improvement then it might be an issue with your newly updated
video card drivers. To see if this is the problem then go to Start -> Control
Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager. From there go to Display
Adapters, expand it with the +, double click on your video card listing, go
to the Driver tab and then click Roll Back Driver. Re-start your system and
see if there's any improvement. If not then you can update your driver again.

If it's a new video card you can try swapping it out for your old one and
see if there's an improvement.

Try these one by one so that you know for sure if specifically one of these
is the problem.

If these work then you' can at least try to fix the specific problem, if not
then you've at least ruled them out as problems.

-Dan

 

[Sally]

Hi,

I'm new to newsgroups. My computer keeps saying my virtual memory
paging file is too low. I have changed the performance level to maximum.
.. That didn't help much. It keeps adding more virtual memory..is that
the best I can do? I have 256 ram, 2.8 GHz processor, since I joined
myspace, it's been tough. How much are memory cards these days? How
much memory is common these days. This computer is going on two years
as I recall..

Thanks.

Sally

 

[mikeyhsd]

have you restricted the size of your page file.
this is what it seems to be complaining.
set your page file to SYSTEM MANAGED.



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Hi,

I'm new to newsgroups. My computer keeps saying my virtual memory
paging file is too low. I have changed the performance level to maximum.
.. That didn't help much. It keeps adding more virtual memory..is that
the best I can do? I have 256 ram, 2.8 GHz processor, since I joined
myspace, it's been tough. How much are memory cards these days? How
much memory is common these days. This computer is going on two years
as I recall..

Thanks.

Sally

 

[Guest]

You sould have started a new thread so that this wasn't burried within this
one.

Anyway, windows uses the paging file as a substitute for RAM in the event
that there's not enough RAM. So there is an inverse relationship between the
amount of RAM in your system and how big the paing file is.

More RAM = less paging file usage. (plus more ram will probably give your
system a speed boost)

I would say that if your system keeps increasing your paging file size then
you could either do what mikeyhsd said or you could double the amount of RAM
in your system.

About the average these days is 512MB - 1 Gig of RAM, and these days it's
definately cheap enough to add more to a system.

-Dan