Computer Slows Down

[retread]

After approx. 1 hour of up time the computer slows to a crawl. Reboot and is it ok for the approx 1 hour. I have ran adaware and spybot, scanned for viruses, deleted Norton Sys Works and Incredimail, defragged, cleaned the registry, deleted temp files and cookies and read and read. Searched 3 computer forums for answers. Any help will be appreciated. The computer is configured as follows: P4 @ 2.4Ghz, 768 MB RDRAM, ASUS mb, ATI 8500 all in wonder video card, two 120GB HDDs, SB Audigy Sound, CDROM and CDRW.

[Budfred]

Welcome to http://www.pcguide.com/ubb/pcgubb.gif

Have you checked for heat??? It sounds like it could be an overheating issue.

The other most likely option is software running background that is taking resources, but the time factor argues against that to some degree. What OS are you running and have you attempted to find what is running background when you are running. You could download and run HijackThis so that we can review it for you and see if there are background programs running that you can shut down. If you do that, close all browsers before running it and after it scans, Save the log. When the window comes up with the copy in it, use a Right click to Copy it and then open your browser, come here and post the log. Don't fix anything until we can look it over since a lot of things in the log are essential. Make sure you extract HJT into a permanent folder so that you can restore changes later if needed. This could be an existing folder like C:\Documents or one you create like C:\HJT....

[retread]

Thanks for the feedback. Runinng XP. Using Asus Probe the temps are well below limits. Will run hijackthis and post results. Thanks again.

[Paul Komski]

Does everything crawl? Accessing applications, browsing the internet, Opening and exploring MyComputer or is there anything selective going on - anything that keeps going at a normal pace?

Could any programs be causing a memory leak - try and run as few programs at any one time to see if one of them running in the background is hogging things or not releasing memory.

[Budfred]

Since you are running WinXP, you may simply be encountering the general drag that it causes over time. Check out Black Viper's (http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm) tweaks for WinXP that can clean up some of the background noise....