winXP pro is kinda slow now

[Gretzky]

For the past couple days i noticed that my computer is running really slow at certain times. The computer boots up to windowsXP pro fine and works fine for a few hours and i think when i open a FTP program where everything slows down.

I opened taskmanager and in process explorer.exe is using 99 percent of my cpu and 70,000 K of memory.

I can fix this by rebooting but thats really annoying, is there any way to correct this?

o/s = windowsXP pro
mem = 512SDRAM
cpu = 1.1 T-Bird

 

[osage]

may find some help HERE and or HERE, some linked stuff may be worth a look.
I used a few of the things mentioned and it has helped I think.

 

[Gretzky]

osage thank you for much for those links. It helped a lot

One more question though. In Taskmanager i set explorer.exe priority as High and its helping. But when i restart my computer the priority goes to Normal. Is there a way to keep the priority to High everytime it restarts or when i turn off my computer.

Also is it normal for memory usage to stay the same all the time? Right now my explorer.exe memory usage is 14,000k and it doesnt go down, and i closed every app in my taskbar and closed every folder.

 

[Gretzky]

Ok i found out whats wrong. My cpu goes to 99 percent of usage only when i go into My Documents folder. Yes i am certain because i have went to random folders on my c drive and everything is fine. Once i go into My Docouments and open a document then my cpu hits 99.

I ran a trojan remover and a anti virus scanner, nothing was found. I went to see my computer log for errors and for the past week i have bin getting this error. Does anyone know how to fix this?

The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( SymProxySvc ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description

 

[osage]

no clue what that would be , but maybe a bump will get some input

 

[Gretzky]

bump

 

[mboy]

Are u running Norton Personal Firewall or Norton AV??

 

[Dreadogg]

sounds like a trojan to me or some nasty spyware, have you tried adaware? Ushally spyware will affect iexplorer. Oh yea you can probally fix this by also shutting down explorer, than reopening through task manager!

 

[Gretzky]

im running norton firewall.

Thanks for the suggestions gonna try em.

 

[Gretzky]

ok i tried shutting down explorer and reopening it but the problem is still there. The folder my documents still laggs my computer.

Im thinking my only option is to format.

 

[mboy]

Well, I knew u were running NOrton firewall because all the google hits (its amazing what happens when u look) has all those errors tied to norton firewall. I would uninstall it, then see what happens.
It is Norotn firewall for sure.

U dont have a trojan or spyware (well u may, but it aint causing your problem)

 

[Gretzky]

i uninstalled Norton Firewall but the problem is still there. I removed everything in the registry that deals with Norton firewall also.

Some people are also suggesting to upgrade my windows xp pro with my winxp cd. They say that the upgrade would hopefully replace the bad files.