| Re: PC has suddenly started to crawl ? ("svchost.exe" lookssuspicious...)
No idea.
What exactly is "Disck Clean Up" ?
And is it safe?
Ship
Shiperton Henethe
> When was last time you ran disk clean up?"ship" <ship...******.com> wrote in message
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> > Hi
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> > Any thoughts about why my PC is suddenly running dead slow?
> > It is running Windows XP Pro (SP3).
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> > 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.
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> > I have various things installed but which I have now EXITED
> > including:
> > Windows Search,
> > Google Desktop,
> > Logmein.com and
> > SpyBot - Search & Destroy.
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> > 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.
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> > 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
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> > I am running AVG Anti-Virus Free (v8.0.138) - but it can't find any
> > viruses.
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> > Any thoughts?
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> > Ship
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