bogged down system update

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thanks for all the tips, still have the problem. Here's what I did since
the last post:

I got and ran both adAware and Spybot. They found a few bots, but only
about 6 or 7 between them.

I degragged the system.

I restored to the earliest restore point I could.

I scaned for virus with Symantic's real time scanner, and AVG that runs full
time on my system.

I turned of XP's wifi service just in case because I'm connected to a wifi
router. The pc is hard wired with cat5.

No virus found. System is clean spyware wise. Defragged fine. Watching
this thing, I noticed when it bogs down, the led for the hard drive is on,
so something is accessing the hard drive and causing this. At least that's
my guess. If I wait a while, 2 or 3 minutes, the led usually goes out, and
then the system works fine again.

If I reboot, it always returns to normal operation for a while. Windows
hasn't said anything late about the video driver (since I updated it.)

Anybody got any other suggestions?

oh yeah, by the way, everything is turned off in start up except for ave and
NvCpl.dll which is an Nvidia dll. I'll turn that off, too, and see what
happens.

Sammy

 

[jad]

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''media sniffer'' MS office ''find fast'''?


"~A_Sammy" <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> thanks for all the tips, still have the problem. Here's what I did
since
> the last post:
>
> I got and ran both adAware and Spybot. They found a few bots, but
only
> about 6 or 7 between them.
>
> I degragged the system.
>
> I restored to the earliest restore point I could.
>
> I scaned for virus with Symantic's real time scanner, and AVG that
runs full
> time on my system.
>
> I turned of XP's wifi service just in case because I'm connected to
a wifi
> router. The pc is hard wired with cat5.
>
> No virus found. System is clean spyware wise. Defragged fine.
Watching
> this thing, I noticed when it bogs down, the led for the hard drive
is on,
> so something is accessing the hard drive and causing this. At least
that's
> my guess. If I wait a while, 2 or 3 minutes, the led usually goes
out, and
> then the system works fine again.
>
> If I reboot, it always returns to normal operation for a while.
Windows
> hasn't said anything late about the video driver (since I updated
it.)
>
> Anybody got any other suggestions?
>
> oh yeah, by the way, everything is turned off in start up except for
ave and
> NvCpl.dll which is an Nvidia dll. I'll turn that off, too, and see
what
> happens.
>
> Sammy
>
>
>

 

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Hi "JAD"

> ''media sniffer'' MS office ''find fast''?


Everything's turned off in startup via msconfig utility, so if there is
someother place to look for "find fast" please let me know.

What is media sniffer, and how do I check for it?

Thanks,

S

ps: The nvidia dll reloads on reboot, but the problem remains if I manually
disable it when the system is running.

I also uninstalled my disk defragger utility just in case that got
tangled up and was access the disk on its own.

 

[jad]

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media sniffers are programs that search the hard drives for media, MPG
JPG AVI MP3 etc. usually these come with sound card software. Find
fast sometimes does not show up in the start up list. If you have Ms
office then find fast can be found in the control panel.


"~A_Sammy" <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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>
> Hi "JAD"
>
> > ''media sniffer'' MS office ''find fast''?
>
>
> Everything's turned off in startup via msconfig utility, so if there
is
> someother place to look for "find fast" please let me know.
>
> What is media sniffer, and how do I check for it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> S
>
> ps: The nvidia dll reloads on reboot, but the problem remains if I
manually
> disable it when the system is running.
>
> I also uninstalled my disk defragger utility just in case that
got
> tangled up and was access the disk on its own.
>
>
>