- Mar 3, 2006
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:? Since almost a year ago, whenever I launch anything (games, word/excel, anything!!!!), it take a real long time for it to start. I mean, on my work computer launching Word takes about 2 seconds. On my house computer, it takes at least 30 seconds and as much as a minute. Starting the computer also take up to 120 seconds only to get to logon screen and another 120 seconds before everything finishes loading up 
. I just seems now like it's getting even worst.
After any application is started, using it is just has fast. My benchmarks seems to tell exactly that. It's really annoying when I do a lot of multitasking (which I do a lot) or while surfing the net for exemple, having to have to wait for the video player to start, then having to wait Outlook to open-up, messenger to open up, etc... It's faster on my mother-in-law Celeron500 with 192MB computer that I build for her with left over parts.
I've degrag with both WXP built-in defrag utility and Norton System Work utility but it fixed nothing. I have a total of 4 HDD and they all take about the same time to start applications. I've also done AV check, Ad-Arare and Spybot check, all with up-to-date definitions. I've check cpu usage and it stays at 2% when idle and up to 100 percent when encoding video for exemple, altough it always go to 100% when launching something and then back down to where it was.
I have a P4 3.0GHZ, Northwood core, with Hyper-Threading on, 1GB of DDR333 memory at 2-2-2-5 timing (2*512), a Radeon 9800Pro with 128MB of memory and P4S800D mobo from ASUS with 655FX chipset. Not exactly high-end but enough to last until either CONROE or A64X2-DDR2 (and R620 if I get lucky).
Just in case it could be the source of my problem, I use AntiVirXP as my antivirus and Kerio as my firewall. I'm thinking of replacing Kerio has I don't like it that much.
Here's the possible source of the problem I could imagine. Either something got corrupted inside windows or it all started when I updated my IDE driver without uninstalling the previous version (thinking it would just replace the previous one). I can't remember if it started after I did it, but I'm thinking it could be the same time about. Last one, is that I installed XTEQ setup a while ago and I also think it was at about the same time, or maybe a bit before. I'm thinking I might have played with something I shouldn't have with XTEQ, but that a long shot.
What do you suggest me doing? I would like to do all but sfc/ scannow has I don't want to reinstall all patchs if it won't fix my problem.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions... and sorry my writing, I'm french speaking. :roll:
. I just seems now like it's getting even worst. After any application is started, using it is just has fast. My benchmarks seems to tell exactly that. It's really annoying when I do a lot of multitasking (which I do a lot) or while surfing the net for exemple, having to have to wait for the video player to start, then having to wait Outlook to open-up, messenger to open up, etc... It's faster on my mother-in-law Celeron500 with 192MB computer that I build for her with left over parts.
I've degrag with both WXP built-in defrag utility and Norton System Work utility but it fixed nothing. I have a total of 4 HDD and they all take about the same time to start applications. I've also done AV check, Ad-Arare and Spybot check, all with up-to-date definitions. I've check cpu usage and it stays at 2% when idle and up to 100 percent when encoding video for exemple, altough it always go to 100% when launching something and then back down to where it was.
I have a P4 3.0GHZ, Northwood core, with Hyper-Threading on, 1GB of DDR333 memory at 2-2-2-5 timing (2*512), a Radeon 9800Pro with 128MB of memory and P4S800D mobo from ASUS with 655FX chipset. Not exactly high-end but enough to last until either CONROE or A64X2-DDR2 (and R620 if I get lucky).
Just in case it could be the source of my problem, I use AntiVirXP as my antivirus and Kerio as my firewall. I'm thinking of replacing Kerio has I don't like it that much.
Here's the possible source of the problem I could imagine. Either something got corrupted inside windows or it all started when I updated my IDE driver without uninstalling the previous version (thinking it would just replace the previous one). I can't remember if it started after I did it, but I'm thinking it could be the same time about. Last one, is that I installed XTEQ setup a while ago and I also think it was at about the same time, or maybe a bit before. I'm thinking I might have played with something I shouldn't have with XTEQ, but that a long shot.
What do you suggest me doing? I would like to do all but sfc/ scannow has I don't want to reinstall all patchs if it won't fix my problem.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions... and sorry my writing, I'm french speaking. :roll:
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