Guest whitebluff Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 System running super slow all of a sudden. When I try to defrag, it just says system not responding. Also tried in safe mode and the defrag won't respond. Any suggestions? Thanks
Guest R. McCarty Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work Was any program or driver recently updated that correlates with when the system became sluggish ? Are you reasonably sure that you've not picked up a Malware infestation ? Answering those questions helps to know where to begin diagnostics. I'd start by checking your System and Application event logs for error(s). Best to clear both logs and reboot and then examine. This way you can see a boot cycle and isolate any recent errors. Event Viewer: Click Start, Run (Type) EventVwr.Msc [Enter] "whitebluff" <sugarcreekranch@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eypYOhd$HHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > System running super slow all of a sudden. When I try to defrag, it just > says system not responding. Also tried in safe mode and the defrag won't > respond. Any suggestions? > > Thanks >
Guest whitebluff Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work Forgot to mention I'm running XP. Do I clear out everything on those 2 event logs or just the ones that have the red X - error? Karen
Guest Ron Badour Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work Do you regularly run scans with up to date anti virus and malware programs? -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "whitebluff" <sugarcreekranch@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eypYOhd$HHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > System running super slow all of a sudden. When I try to defrag, it just > says system not responding. Also tried in safe mode and the defrag won't > respond. Any suggestions? > > Thanks >
Guest Gerry Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? How much RAM memory? How large is your hard disk and how much free space. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ whitebluff wrote: > System running super slow all of a sudden. When I try to defrag, it > just says system not responding. Also tried in safe mode and the > defrag won't respond. Any suggestions? > > Thanks
Guest whitebluff Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work OK - Under total - 358,008 Limit 1,112,512, Peak 392,948 40 GB with 22 GB free and 768 MB memory.
Guest whitebluff Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work I am using Norton Antivirus 2006 but no malware programs. Scanned system after it became soooo slow and didn't find anything.
Guest Gerry Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work Nothing obviously untoward with those figures. You need to get some anti-spyware protection pronto. http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ whitebluff wrote: > OK - Under total - 358,008 Limit 1,112,512, Peak 392,948 40 GB with > 22 GB free and 768 MB memory.
Guest Rey Santos Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 RE: Defrag won't work Check your DCOM Server Process Launcher if it is set to Automatic Start | Control Panel | Asministrative Tools | Services | Scroll down and double click DCOM Server Process Launcher | The startup type should be set to Automatic | Click Apply | Click the Start button | When the service starts, click OK | Close Services | Reboot DCOM Server Process Launcher http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-services-dcomlaunch.html -- Rey "whitebluff" wrote: > System running super slow all of a sudden. When I try to defrag, it just > says system not responding. Also tried in safe mode and the defrag won't > respond. Any suggestions? > > Thanks > > >
Guest Ron Badour Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work At a minimum, get Spybot and run a scan. http://www-spybot.net/ -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "whitebluff" <sugarcreekranch@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OM62$ge$HHA.5164@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >I am using Norton Antivirus 2006 but no malware programs. Scanned system >after it became soooo slow and didn't find anything. >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:47:48 -0500, "whitebluff" <sugarcreekranch@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am using Norton Antivirus 2006 Unfortunately, anything Norton is probably the worst possible choice. > but no malware programs. But even more important the how poor Norton is is your lack of anti-spyware protection. I would almost be willing to bet you are infected, very likely with multiple things. I recommend that you begin troubleshooting by going to MVP Malke's malware removal site at http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware and following the instructions there. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest whitebluff Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work The DCOM server is set to automatic. Have run spy bot and still nothing fixed. IE Explore and Outlook Express run just fine - just computer programs take forever to load and startup takes approx 5 minutes. Gateway helped me clean out everything I don't need to start up. Just need to defrag and it won't respond.
Guest R. McCarty Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work You might want to Explore to: \Windows\Inf Right Click on Dfrg.Inf and from the context menu choose Install. Otherwise, I'd go to Raxco's trial download site and get a copy of Perfect Disk 8. Read the instructions on how to do both a Boot time defrag and follow that with an on-line defrag session. http://www.raxco.com/products/downloadit/ "whitebluff" <sugarcreekranch@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:O40XNNj$HHA.5164@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > The DCOM server is set to automatic. Have run spy bot and still nothing > fixed. IE Explore and Outlook Express run just fine - just computer > programs take forever to load and startup takes approx 5 minutes. Gateway > helped me clean out everything I don't need to start up. Just need to > defrag and it won't respond. > > >
Guest Gerry Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work What Error / Warning reports ( if any ) appear in the System log in Event Viewer when you last booted the machine? Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in a previous boot. You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important. HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further information. http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp (Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only) A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ whitebluff wrote: > The DCOM server is set to automatic. Have run spy bot and still > nothing fixed. IE Explore and Outlook Express run just fine - just > computer programs take forever to load and startup takes approx 5 > minutes. Gateway helped me clean out everything I don't need to > start up. Just need to defrag and it won't respond.
Guest Script Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 RE: Defrag won't work Defrag won't run if Task Scheduler (Service) is turned off under Control Panel | Admin Tools | Services . Sounds like you might need more than that, though. "whitebluff" wrote: > System running super slow all of a sudden. When I try to defrag, it just > says system not responding. Also tried in safe mode and the defrag won't > respond. Any suggestions? > > Thanks > > >
Guest whitebluff Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work Script: All of the errors were atapi, event 9 and several warnings for cdrom event 51. These appear on all bootups. Thanks
Guest whitebluff Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work Hooray - looked up what atapi was is all about so tried taking out the CD-RW that was on my E drive and everything works as normal for startup with no errors. Defrag is also working. Sure do appreciate all the help that everyone has offered. Back up and running again - Karen
Guest Gerry Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work Well Karen you had us going for quite a while with a CD left in the machine <G>! A variant on blind woman's buff! -- Regards. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ whitebluff wrote: > Hooray - looked up what atapi was is all about so tried taking out > the CD-RW that was on my E drive and everything works as normal for > startup with no errors. Defrag is also working. Sure do appreciate > all the help that everyone has offered. > > Back up and running again - Karen
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Defrag won't work >System running super slow all of a sudden. When I try to defrag, it just >says system not responding. Also tried in safe mode and the defrag won't >respond. Any suggestions? Have you tried getting ahold of the patch from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916731 - Thee Chicago Wolf
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