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Originally Posted by sanddrag
I really hope there's a fix to this without having to do a reinstall. My dad's computer is running really slow. Internet Explorer and Firefox are both incredibly slow to open (firefox more so). Microsoft office applications appear to open fairly normally. Internet explorer is incredibly slow to load pages. Firefox isn't too bad. Internet explorer maxes out the CPU at 100% for a good while when it loads a page like www.msn.com or www.dailynews.com. Firefox loads up the CPU quite a bit but doesn't quite max it out. On my computer, those pages load very quickly without any problems. His computer is a 1.8HGz Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM. I've deleted temporary internet files and have run Spybot, Adaware, and Norton which didn't really find anything. There have never been any obvious signs of malware on the computer. I've tried disabling all startup items and killing off other running processes. I've tried disabling 3rd party browser extensions. I've tried a new user account. Problem persists. In safe mode everything works a lot better, but we all know that safe mode is not a primary working environment. As far as I know, nothing new was installed recently. I really can't figure out what is causing it. Any help is greatly appreciated. And no "get a mac" or "switch to ubuntu" are not options. |
If it truely is just access to the internet, then do the following:
1> In addition to deleting the temporary internet files, also delete the cookies (this may lose your passwords if you've saved them on your PC) and the history.
2> If you have any toolbars added (MSN, Google, Yahoo, etc) remove them. Dont just disable them, delete them (add/remove programs) since some still load into memory and send data to the internet even while disabled.
3> search through your windows directory for a temp directory. Sometimes windows creates temp files and then 'forgets' to delete them (loading them every time. Inside that temp directory there may be some folders (might be inside the folder Content IE5) with odd names such as 'G7IFEZO5'. Delete them (this will not harm your system and if IE needs it windows will recreate it).
*NOTE* there will still be cookies and temp internet files even if you deleted them in step 1. Delete all these too.
4> check your connection speed at
http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html and match it against your expected connection speed. If it is not where it should be then check your (DSL/Cable/telephone) modem or your ISP.
If it's not just the internet then:
1> Run disk cleanup
2> Run scandisk.
3> Run defrag.
4> Check available space on the drive (too small will cause difficulty caching)