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I have had to repair (Repair option in the XP Professional CD) my XP OS. Since then, all the applications run awfully slow. I had performed a virus check (none found), a registers' cleaning, a spy removing (some found and removed, nothing important), a de-fragmentation also. Free space is enough... (about 2 GB on the OS logical partition)...
Still my applications run very slow now, all of them.
Any ideas?
You might check the applications set to run on start up, disable some and see if that makes a difference.
A while back, I experienced the same problem. It was due to my anti-virus, which was unknowingly damaged during an update, trying to run at start-up but couldn't. It was taxing a lot of the system resources, both trying to run and fix the update at the same time.
I use this program: http://www.winpatrol.com/
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Thanks for the answer... It looks like the automatic updater (wuauclt.exe) of the XP keeps 99% of my CPU busy, which is weird, as it did not happen before... hm... The problem is that I can not stop the process from the services manager... weird again...
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oops, it worked... not from the services manager, but from the task manager... I have to dig to find how to do that from services as well.
But, anyway, I suspect it could be a virus as I don't think the updater should block the CPU up to 96-98% of it's usage power..
You can find your answer here (http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_w.htm). That should help you take care of it.
Thanks Lee. Good link.
A good friend of mine who works for Microsoft (I was not able to contact him till today) told me also that the Repair XP Tool is a weak tool anyway. He is right, I had to reinstall the main drivers also (motherboard, sound card, video cards...:-)
But that should keep my system alive only for a couple of weeks when I intend to change my HDD and reinstall a fresh OS. Thanks everybody, problem solved.