the svchosts are not
always the problem
and there are a lots
of things that can
slow down the pc.

the two things to try
is:

1) is see if the o.s.
has become corrupted
by booting into the
safemodes and examining
the performance of windows

and/or

2) reboot normal/regular
windows in a clean state:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353

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there is another technique
you can use as well while
in windows.

open the task manager
and simply begin killing/ending
any and all processes that
it permits you to.

if a process is the issue
then you will be closer
to identifying it.

incidentally, when you
kill explorer.exe you
will unload the registry.

so go to the first tab and
relaunch explorer.exe as a
new task.
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"ship" <shiphen******.com> wrote in message news:3bdf7aa9-b6b8-42d3-9584-5fb50536fd24@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi
>
> Any thoughts about why my PC is suddenly running dead slow?
> It is running Windows XP Pro (SP3).
>
> I last updated it about 20 days ago. And then it started running slow
> about 2 days ago.
> I have now installe dall the latest patches but it is still dog-slow.
>
> I have various things installed but which I have now EXITED
> including:
> Windows Search,
> Google Desktop,
> Logmein.com and
> SpyBot - Search & Destroy.
>
> I notice in Windows "Task Manager" that even just after on a cold re-
> boot, I have 7 copies of "svchost.exe". They are not taking any CPU
> time though.
>
> In fact the CPU is running at about 2-3%. But when I open FireFox, it
> takes a VERY long
> time to open (about 90 seconds first time, and still about 15 seconds
> to immediately
> re-open it with nothing else open). Whereas msInternet Explorer
> (normally fairly slow
> to open now opens in about 8 seconds and re-opens in about 2 or 3
> seconds
>
> I am running AVG Anti-Virus Free (v8.0.138) - but it can't find any
> viruses.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Ship
> Shiperton Henethe
>