Suddenly sluggish

July 19, 2007

My home desktop (2ghz Core Duo, 1gb ram) runs 2003 Server (mainly so I can

use TS when traveling). It's a recent re-install of Standard Edition Sp2 and

was working great.

Suddenly (I'm sure I had something to do with it), certain functions have

become very slow. Several examples:

Invoking IE6 displays a partially built window for 15 seconds before loading

my home page. It's a lattice-work of blue lines with the previous screen

contents showing through during the pause. Invoking Eudora7 takes about the

same time.

Most other applications start up immediately.

One peculiar one is that if I cut/paste between applications, the paste

takes the same 15 seconds, during which time interaction is frozen.

There are no events logged during the pause, and the task manager shows the

System Idle Process running at 99%.

Where can I look to figure out what's happening?

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