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Alan Searle

I have a Windows XP Home edition running on an HP Pavillion PC (2.66 ghz
new, pre-installed system) that is extremely slow.

It takes about five minutes for the menu bar to appear (after booting)
and every now and again locks up (and thrashes) for several minutes
before a particular menu item or application appears.

I have checked the usual things like virtual memory and have tried both
manual and automatic settings but it didn't make any difference. I also
re-installed XP but that also didn't change anything.

I then thought it might be hardware so I installed Linux to see how that
would fare and found that Linux gave good performance but XP continued
to thrash.

I thought it might be a virus but this is a system 'out of the box' that
has hardly been connected to the net.

Indeed, I only have an analogue phone line so it is difficult for me to
download updates. Could the problem be XP trying to request patches and
not finding the net?

Any tips would be a great help.

Regards and thanks,
Alan Searle.
 
I have a similar issue: Alan, I don't think this is
you....

Compare notes from Task Manager, to see if our symptomos
are the same:

i have a new XP install (well, second, actually, as I
couldn't resolve this the first time I found this problem,
so rebuilt from scratch....); 2.2G P4; IDE Promise RAID1;
512MB 233MHz RAM. Most clear symptom of the problem is:
Task manager reports that explorer.exe is chewing up
around 99% of CPU time all the time, and mem usage
thrashes between 70 and 120MB; over time, this is climbing
through the roof, and starts to push my page file way up
in size. I can recover the system performance by "end
process" on explorer.exe, but it deteriorates quite
quickly. (30 mins or so....)

THis is XP Pro, running SP1 and all the current patches
from the MS download site.

It has NAV 2003 and Zonealarm running on it. Disabling
autoprotect in NAV makes no difference. It has Office XP
Pro; once again, current level of patches from MS.

I know the hardware is kosher; have an identical system
running SBS 2003, that runs like a cut cat!

Would certainly appreciate any clues on this one!

Cheers
 
-----Original Message-----
I have a Windows XP Home edition running on an HP Pavillion PC (2.66 ghz
new, pre-installed system) that is extremely slow.

It takes about five minutes for the menu bar to appear (after booting)
and every now and again locks up (and thrashes) for several minutes
before a particular menu item or application appears.

I have checked the usual things like virtual memory and have tried both
manual and automatic settings but it didn't make any difference. I also
re-installed XP but that also didn't change anything.

I then thought it might be hardware so I installed Linux to see how that
would fare and found that Linux gave good performance but XP continued
to thrash.

I thought it might be a virus but this is a system 'out of the box' that
has hardly been connected to the net.

Indeed, I only have an analogue phone line so it is difficult for me to
download updates. Could the problem be XP trying to request patches and
not finding the net?

Any tips would be a great help.

Regards and thanks,
Alan Searle.

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WOW my pavilion did that too,start--run--type in
Click to expand...
msconfig--ok--startup tab--uncheck hp toolbars,there's 2
of them,there trying to update and load on you using up
all the RAM,it takes pryority over the system--ok--
restart--check box when it boots don't show again--ok-----
------------I tried checking back and the problem started
back,unchecked them went away,also call support and have
them tell you what you need for XP to run proper in
msconfig,they'll give it to you,you'll have to call
cuz,when you shut off that tool bar it disconects the
support on th=e internet,I'll never buy another H/P,but
now I have this sucker humming,9 months it took,and 50
calls to H/P,been running good for 6 months since I got
rid of their toolbar.Good Luck.---------------------------
--also check out
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm for
extra tweaks you can use,there's one to remove the
unchecked boxes in the config utillity.
 
You said the machine was not connected to the internet but for a short while, how long do you think it takes to get a virus or spyware-adware programs? Not long I can tell you. Check for these type problems.
 
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