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Windows XP lagging and running REALLY slow

TommyD

TommyD

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I recently installed one of my old hard drives into my friends PC to upgrade his 6gb and installed a fresh copy after repartitioning the drive I gave him. After Windows XP installed I immediately ran Windows Update and I found it odd after 2 hours it still wasn't more then 30% done with the installation of the patches. I tried to install other things such as his Norton Anti Virus and it would hang at like 75% so I stopped that, I tried to install Direct X 9.0b and it would just sit at the initializing point and do nothing else. His system specs are P3-700 MHz, and 512mb of PC133 on a Tyan Trinity motherboard. At first I thought it may have been because I didn't install the VIA 4in1 drivers but after installing them nothing changed. Just to be curious I installed Windows 2000 into his machine and it worked flawlessly.

Anyone have any ideas as to why his machine was lagging and responding very slow in Windows XP?

also a shameless plug for a problem of mine, 2 of my machines for some reason keep having Audio ads start playing randomly from careerbuilder.com. I ran Spybot and Ad-Ware and it found nothing in my related to that, I still did a cleaning of spyware but it did not remedy the problem. Anyone have any insight as to what may be doing this?

Thanks in advance.
 
just like any other o/s, delete all temp files, clean out internet browser cache, defrag, get rid or any application not needed...including stupid stuff that sits in the system tray, including winamp, quick time, ect...
 
once a week in addition to up to date checking with ad aware and spybot do:

1. check startup in msconfig
2. check startup in start menu
3. check processes in task manager for anything weird using cpu time
4. check program files menu in explorer and see if there are any weird folders

Anything at all, just check the word in google, normally it comes up as spyware if its bad

good luck
 
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