Hi all. I went and looked at a friends computer the other day who said it had recently slowed way way down on all tasks. So I get there ans check some things out : I ran a full system scan for virus's thru Norton and he was up to date and clean according to it.
I went to pcpitstop and did a full system test there. No viruses agn, everyhing chk'd out completey there except it mentioned something about the caching process on drive C (I forget the exact name at the moment) but I did go into the C drive, properties and followed their recommended fix. Well, when I went into the properties for C it was alrdy set to what they suggested I set it at so I just left it as it was.
I ran a chdsk and everything checked out fine. I thought it may be a heat issue and we took the side cover off and even put a 12" circular fan blowing into the case and it did not improve so that rules that out. The unit is a Gateway w\ a P4 2 ghz, 256 RAM XP Home Edition SP1 and no more than 6 months old.
He has not installed any new programs that may be interferring and it doesnt matter whether it is a program application or the internet they are all slow.
Now when I was there that night it ran slow for me the whole time I was doing all this, but he says that some times it will speed up and run normal but then it will slow back down to a crawl again.
Im baffled. It sounds like a virus but Norton nor PcPitstops virus scan picked up anything. The only thing I havent tryed was a Spybot or Adaware ck.... but the real kicker is why does it work at the speeds it should for a little bit and then will slow down? If it were a virus or a spyware deal it would run slow all the time it looks like.
If anyone has some ideas I will sure give them a shot because Im stumped.
Thx for any and all advice
I went to pcpitstop and did a full system test there. No viruses agn, everyhing chk'd out completey there except it mentioned something about the caching process on drive C (I forget the exact name at the moment) but I did go into the C drive, properties and followed their recommended fix. Well, when I went into the properties for C it was alrdy set to what they suggested I set it at so I just left it as it was.
I ran a chdsk and everything checked out fine. I thought it may be a heat issue and we took the side cover off and even put a 12" circular fan blowing into the case and it did not improve so that rules that out. The unit is a Gateway w\ a P4 2 ghz, 256 RAM XP Home Edition SP1 and no more than 6 months old.
He has not installed any new programs that may be interferring and it doesnt matter whether it is a program application or the internet they are all slow.
Now when I was there that night it ran slow for me the whole time I was doing all this, but he says that some times it will speed up and run normal but then it will slow back down to a crawl again.
Im baffled. It sounds like a virus but Norton nor PcPitstops virus scan picked up anything. The only thing I havent tryed was a Spybot or Adaware ck.... but the real kicker is why does it work at the speeds it should for a little bit and then will slow down? If it were a virus or a spyware deal it would run slow all the time it looks like.
If anyone has some ideas I will sure give them a shot because Im stumped.
Thx for any and all advice
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