Hello,
It's actually a friends laptop. It's one of those typical deals where the laptop is in complete disrepair: spyware, viruses, and just overall messy situation. These are the things I've done, which usually works:
- Deleted Norton, installed AVG (save resources), found three viruses, cleaned them. Rescanned, no viruses.
- installed Ad-Aware, tons of spyware, removed it, rescanned, all gone.
- installed and ran CC Cleaner, hundreds of registry errors fixed, etc.
- installed SP2.
Now, with all that said, I dropped her resources down from almost 300MB, to under 200MB. Saved over 10GB of space from junk files, and other benefits.
The problem I'm having is the fact that despite all that, the laptop runs slow as hell. So I opened up the resources manager, and it became quite clear. There is something running, and I cannot figure out what, that causes this machine to choke, every 5 seconds or so. If I could show you a picture of the CPU usage history, it would look like an EKG where it's at 20-30% at low (which is still high) and then spikes up to 80-100%. It repeats this, endlessly.
I've gone through MSCONFIG and re ran everything, so I know its not spyware or a virus.
Does anyone know what I should do next? Thanks much!
It's actually a friends laptop. It's one of those typical deals where the laptop is in complete disrepair: spyware, viruses, and just overall messy situation. These are the things I've done, which usually works:
- Deleted Norton, installed AVG (save resources), found three viruses, cleaned them. Rescanned, no viruses.
- installed Ad-Aware, tons of spyware, removed it, rescanned, all gone.
- installed and ran CC Cleaner, hundreds of registry errors fixed, etc.
- installed SP2.
Now, with all that said, I dropped her resources down from almost 300MB, to under 200MB. Saved over 10GB of space from junk files, and other benefits.
The problem I'm having is the fact that despite all that, the laptop runs slow as hell. So I opened up the resources manager, and it became quite clear. There is something running, and I cannot figure out what, that causes this machine to choke, every 5 seconds or so. If I could show you a picture of the CPU usage history, it would look like an EKG where it's at 20-30% at low (which is still high) and then spikes up to 80-100%. It repeats this, endlessly.
I've gone through MSCONFIG and re ran everything, so I know its not spyware or a virus.
Does anyone know what I should do next? Thanks much!
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