very slow operation of Windows

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My Windows 2000 system takes so long to respond that I
think it is approaching 1 MICROflop in speed!
This "happened" one day when turning the system on and
continues despite extensive viral/worm detection and
cleaning (none found) all the latest updates (service pack
4) and every other trick that has been suggested. It is
not the hard drive (it passes all the hard drive utility
test) not the RAM memory and not anything else that I can
discover. Any ideas on why a system would suddenly operate
as if it were slogging through molasses in January??? If I
wait it will complete whatever the task requested. For
example, if I give it 10-15 minutes it will complete start-
up and paint the desktop ect. Then if I click on a program
to open it will open the program if given enough time (~5-
10 minutes). Everything works just in very slow motion???
Suggestions welcome.
 
KLight said:
My Windows 2000 system takes so long to respond that I
think it is approaching 1 MICROflop in speed!
This "happened" one day when turning the system on and
continues despite extensive viral/worm detection and
cleaning (none found) all the latest updates (service pack
4) and every other trick that has been suggested. It is
not the hard drive (it passes all the hard drive utility
test) not the RAM memory and not anything else that I can
discover. Any ideas on why a system would suddenly operate
as if it were slogging through molasses in January??? If I
wait it will complete whatever the task requested. For
example, if I give it 10-15 minutes it will complete start-
up and paint the desktop ect. Then if I click on a program
to open it will open the program if given enough time (~5-
10 minutes). Everything works just in very slow motion???
Suggestions welcome.


check your bios, it could have gotten reset to minimal defaults

for fastest performance there should be an optimal performance setting
 
My Windows 2000 system takes so long to respond that I
think it is approaching 1 MICROflop in speed!
This "happened" one day when turning the system on and
continues despite extensive viral/worm detection and
cleaning (none found) all the latest updates (service pack
4) and every other trick that has been suggested.

You said you checked for viruses but did you run a spyware scan with
either "adaware" <http://www.lavasoftusa.com>
or "spybot search & distroy"
http://security.kolla.de/news.php?lang=en> ?
There are a couple of ad programs that run at powerup that can consume
all available CPU.

HTH,
John
 
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