Unexplained slowdown
jwersan
LI NY
I know that others of you have seen this, and probably this has come up before, but...
On my computer, after a while of using the OS (XP Corp Edition) it will inexplicable slow down or take unexplained pauses whenever I try to access the Internet or go to my hard-drive.
At first, I thought that it may be a runaway process, but the task manager shows more than 50% CPU idle, and I don't see that the system is hard-drive bound, because the drive activity LED is quiet.
In the past, when this has become intolerable, I have done a ground up rebuild. (Reformat the drive, and reload the OS & all the apps) I would like to avoid this, if possible…
Any thoughts or explanations.
Thanks!
On my computer, after a while of using the OS (XP Corp Edition) it will inexplicable slow down or take unexplained pauses whenever I try to access the Internet or go to my hard-drive.
At first, I thought that it may be a runaway process, but the task manager shows more than 50% CPU idle, and I don't see that the system is hard-drive bound, because the drive activity LED is quiet.
In the past, when this has become intolerable, I have done a ground up rebuild. (Reformat the drive, and reload the OS & all the apps) I would like to avoid this, if possible…
Any thoughts or explanations.
Thanks!
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I suspect a bad DLL, or something, but I have yet to nail it down.
Thanks though....
Device manager
expand ur IDE ATA controllers,
right click on primary ide
go to properties
advanced settings tab.
and tell me whats the CURRENT TRANSFER MODE.
do the same for the seconday IDE.
Does that help???
it should state the Current Transfer mode
Could be a variety of things, even someone dos-attacking you from the network could cause this as more and more of window's resources need to be diverted to handle the incoming packets... etc...
Which Antivirus do you have, and how is it programmed to run & monitor ?
>Any Windows Updates running....may be unsuccessful.?
>How much memory do you have.
>How much free memory ? [@ 50% idle]
>How is your pagefile setting set ?
>If you access the internet, which other destinations does your Firewall indicated ?