LSA Shell (Export Version) thrashing hard disk after restart

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cyberfruits

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Hi when i restart or start windows xp home edition my hard disk is always busy for about 2 hours or more and the culprit is LSA Shell (Export Version). indexing is turned of, but it really slows my computer, any idea how to stop it?

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The lsass.exe process can also be a virus, run a full virus scan with Malwarebytes and it's a good idea to create a virus rescue disk from an anti-virus vendor, AVG and AVIRA both have ones you can download that I've used before.

Depending on how long ago you did a clean setup of Windows that may be a good idea, backup your files and whatever settings you want to note and do a clean XP setup.
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The lsass.exe process can also be a virus, run a full virus scan with Malwarebytes and it's a good idea to create a virus rescue disk from an anti-virus vendor, AVG and AVIRA both have ones you can download that I've used before.

Depending on how long ago you did a clean setup of Windows that may be a good idea, backup your files and whatever settings you want to note and do a clean XP setup.
 
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cyberfruits

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I have avast and i use Malewarebytes, but they do not find any viruses or spyware or malware. i also use use Spybot S&D. the problem is only at a fresh start of windows and was thinking, it might just be a windows setting i am missing?
 
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Did you check your startup programs and utilities? A failing hard drive can also have a lot of disk access happening since it has to remap and search the disk for good sectors. Almost every time that I have seen lots of disk use, if it's not a virus, it ends up being a disk on the way out.
 
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