XP running very slow

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Gord

Help. I don't know what happened. Everything was good until the other day
then all of a sudden my computer is in the stone age. My AVG has taken 10.5
hours to scan 8500 objects where it normally does it in about 2 or so hours.
I don't know if I've got a virus or what. Can someone help me out.
 
Help. I don't know what happened. Everything was good until the other day
then all of a sudden my computer is in the stone age. My AVG has taken 10.5
hours to scan 8500 objects where it normally does it in about 2 or so hours.
I don't know if I've got a virus or what. Can someone help me out.
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I don't know either, but a sudden drop in performance *is* often
symptomatic of malware infection. I recommend that you begin
troubleshooting by going to MVP Malke's malware removal site at
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware and
following the instructions there.
 
Gord

Were you otherwise using the computer whilst AVG was scanning? My AVG
scans 77,000 objects in something like 5 minutes every day.

How much RAM memory does your computer have?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager. With
the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check the boxes
before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What are the figures
for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
is more informative.

What are your anti-spyware arrangements?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Gerry said:
Gord

Were you otherwise using the computer whilst AVG was scanning? My AVG
scans 77,000 objects in something like 5 minutes every day.

How much RAM memory does your computer have?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager. With
the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check the boxes
before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What are the figures
for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
is more informative.

What are your anti-spyware arrangements?

Gerry thanks for getting back to me. My total commit charge is 594,000
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the six biggest processes are
IEplorer 107970 k Mem usage, 118928 Peak and 103468 VM
msmpeng.exe 21332 k Mem usage, 57092 peak and 23304 VM
svchost.exe 27488 k Mem usage, 34600 Peak and 26 848 VM
explorer.exe 20268 mem usage, 26252 peak and 19172 vm
guard.exe 16744 mem usage, 49504 peak and 35280 vm
avg 2172 mem usage, 179696 peak and 65932 vm
You don't want me to post the defrag report and volumec.txt report on here
do you?
 
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