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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. |
what worked for me were three programs from PC Tools, spyware doctor, anti-virus and registry mechanic all of which offer 30 day full function free trials.
The big name Norton products obviously were not catching some spyware and it was busy working away and slowing my machine down to the point I was thinking it might be time for a new computer.
I ran the Pc tools products and solved the problem and then ran a little utility called CW shredder and solved a few more problems.
Then after doing a little google searching I found that you can go into RUN and type SERVICES.MSC and turn off certain things that you don't need and let me tell you after do that this old laptop is running with more speed and power than I need.
Of course now I have a new problem, can't run defrag, window pops up and says to run chksdk /f and running that doesn't make the problem go away....so I have a little problem of my own to solve.
but really I suspect you have a spyware infestation....those symptoms are identical to what I had and that spyware stuff accumulates over time and it uses up resources...not to mention the risks.