TERRIBLE performance. very sudden decline in performance..what gives?

[MrDudeMan]

last night (all of a sudden) my computer started acting VERY strange. when i click on the today button on AT and move the mouse, it stays as the little hand for a few seconds

and the button stays highlighted, and then about 3 seconds later it makes the clicking sound as if it were just clicked.


then i opened MS word and excel...usually they open in the blink of an eye, cant even see the little box in the middle of the screen that says who it is registered to etc. etc.

now, the program opens slow, then shortcut to it on the start bar only appears half way for about the first 30 seconds, then you can see all of it. when you close them, it

takes the same amount of time.


and my screen saver....if i turn the screen saver on at all, even for 10 seconds, the system locks up for half a minute at least, and then it randomly goes to the desktop and

pretends to work fine again.


when i go to add/remove programs...it only loads like 5 or 6 things when like 30 are installed.

i tried defragging, i restarted, ive even searched for possible problems...NOTHING



anyone have ANY ideas?


thanks

 

[Adul]

is there anything running in the back ground?

is your HD making weird noises?

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Adul
is there anything running in the back ground?

is your HD making weird noises?

no and no


everything seems totally normal

it just sucks BIG time and i cant figure out why

 

[tomstevens26]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
last night (all of a sudden) my computer started acting VERY strange. when i click on the today button on AT and move the mouse, it stays as the little hand for a few seconds and the button stays highlighted, and then about 3 seconds later it makes the clicking sound as if it were just clicked. then i opened MS word and excel...usually they open in the blink of an eye, cant even see the little box in the middle of the screen that says who it is registered to etc. etc. now, the program opens slow, then shortcut to it on the start bar only appears half way for about the first 30 seconds, then you can see all of it. when you close them, it takes the same amount of time. and my screen saver....if i turn the screen saver on at all, even for 10 seconds, the system locks up for half a minute at least, and then it randomly goes to the desktop and pretends to work fine again. when i go to add/remove programs...it only loads like 5 or 6 things when like 30 are installed. i tried defragging, i restarted, ive even searched for possible problems...NOTHING anyone have ANY ideas? thanks

Did you check the processes running to see what CPU load they are using? Every once and a while my system will start to crawl, and I found out that the a firewall program I run sometimes hogs the processor at 90-95% for no apparent reason. Stopping that service and restarting it solves the problem. I would think checking the load your current software is causing could be a start to seeing if you have an application problem or a hardware related issue.

Tom

 

[MadRat]

Some spywares are carefully tailored nowadays not to register in the process list. Apparently M$ makes it possible to have hidden processes.

You have to look at the thread level to see them.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: MadRat
Some spywares are carefully tailored nowadays not to register in the process list. Apparently M$ makes it possible to have hidden processes.

You have to look at the thread level to see them.

thread level?

 

[tomstevens26]

Originally posted by: MadRat
Some spywares are carefully tailored nowadays not to register in the process list. Apparently M$ makes it possible to have hidden processes. You have to look at the thread level to see them.

I've been using Spybot Search & Destroy to find (hopefully) anything like that running on my own PC. Seems to work fairly well.

 

[GrumpyMan]

I had a similar expierience yesterday, but I started closing programs one by one and it resulted in being Outlook Express that for whatever reason it started using almost a gig of virtual memory which slowed everything down until I closed it and re-opened it.

 

[MrDudeMan]

ok here is something interesting, and i dunno if this matters...



i minimized IE and looked at the task mng menu and iexplorer.exe is getting 99 CPU time and the CPU was at 100% usage nonstop for at least a minute. i did other things...didnt change...100% usage


what the hell is this all about?


this is what it looks like with iexplorer closed...what is all the svchost stuff?

i cant reconstruct the CPU usage...i closed that task of IE and now it seems to be working PERFECT again...what is going on here? something fishy...

 

[Arhra]

Most likely just some bad peice of code in IE was causing it to take over the entire stack.

 

[tomstevens26]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
what is all the svchost stuff?

svchost info

If you want more info just put 'svchost' in a Google search.

Tom

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Arhra
Most likely just some bad peice of code in IE was causing it to take over the entire stack.

i dunno what that really means but sounds good enough

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: tomstevens26

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
what is all the svchost stuff?

<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBJ/tip4600/rh4660.htm" target=blank>svchost info</A>

If you want more info just put 'svchost' in a Google search.

Tom

thanks