Windows XP Pro Slowdown over time question

[mrkrabs]

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

I have a windows xp pro installation on one of my computers that is about a year old now. Over the past couple of months I have noticed that it is gradually getting slower. What can be causing this?

I defrag weekly, I run adaware daily, I have unused services disabled, I run virus scans weekly with BitDefender. I have turned off System Restore, defragged then removed and recreated my swap file, basically everything that I have found so far on the web that can be causing slowdowns. I also download the security patches from microsoft everytime they come out.

My hardware configuration:

AMD Athlon Barton 2500, Asus A7N8X DELUXE mobo, 1024 Kingston Hyper X ram. 80 Gig WD hdd with 20 gig free. Nvidia Geforce vid card, and am using the built in audio and nic from the mobo.

Am I destined to do a repair install?

Thanks very much

 

[noellees1]

http://www.tweakxp.com/search.asp?s=speed+up

that has a good link for speeding up other things, maybe you want to right click on my computer->properties->advanced->performance->advacned->virtual memory button, this is recomemded up to 4 times your orrigional amount of ram.
this may not help a lot but it just might.

http://www.spano.co.uk

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[UKYoyo]

Hiya,
Had and am having the same problem. Download a copy of HijackThis. It lists all the files that run on your PC from Boot-up, you may find some backweb/spyware links which you dont need or shouldnt be there. Cut them out and see what happens!!

This program lists more running files than msconfig appears to........

David

 

[bcastner]

See linney's discussion in this thread: thread779-850265