How much RAM?

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?

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager. With
the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check the boxes
before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What are the figures
for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

Do you leave the computer on 24/7

I would be interested in seeing a Disk Defragmenter report. Open Disk
Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
is more informative.



You might find HD Tune (freeware) gives you a clearer picture of what is
going on. HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any problems.

Download and run it and see what it turns up.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message. What mode is supported and what is
active?

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full
surface scan with HD Tune.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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ship wrote:
> 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