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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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So GP was kind enough to hook me up with a computer because the piece of shit I was running on was, well, a piece of shit. The computer has been fantastic, and one of the things I loved about it was that it booted in about 30 seconds. That all changed today. The most notable thing I did was get the new windows updates for today, but the computer now boots really, really slowly. I opened the task manager while booting, and I saw that services.exe starts using all the system resources, up to 700K of memory, and then slowly backs down. It takes about 10-15 minutes now for the computer to boot to where it's actually operational, because for the first 10-15 minutes the CPU usage is at 100% and all of the memory is in use.
Any ideas what could be causing this, or far more importantly how to fix this?
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
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STOP DLING PORN!
Actually... I'm going to let GP take over because it is GP and he is like the computer God
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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I will refrain from running a stupid joke in to the ground, and await GP's expertise. 
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I'm assuming your running Xp
Have you defragmented it on a regular basis? If no do that two or three times
And I would reccomend the program clean my registry. Just DL that and run it twice
I would give you a link but I can't on my iPod
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I ran SUPERAntiSpy and Comodo System Cleaner after this happened. I haven't defragged in a while, but this was a VERY sudden change so it wouldn't be from that. Sudden as in my computer turn on in 30 seconds, then I rebooted after the windows updates installed, then it took 20 minutes to boot. And yes, I'm on XP.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| Hacker wrote: |
I'm assuming your running Xp
Have you defragmented it on a regular basis? If no do that two or three times
And I would reccomend the program clean my registry. Just DL that and run it twice
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Fragmentation problems are a slow growing symptom unless there is a larger problem such as your machine being hacked as a porno server. This would be obvious. I am ruling fragmention out since the symptom is so sudden.
Registry issues can cause this issue, however I wouldn't begin by trying to fix all registry problems and potentially causing many additional ones.
Let us begin with the simple sensible options.
Jeebus, I'd like to rule out viruses. Could you please run the following instructions. http://history.sydlexia.com/index.php?title=How_to_remove_a_virus Steps 1-8. For now skip step 9.
When you have finished this, we can continue to work on fixing the problem.
Also, I don't recall what antivirus you had on there. Could you refresh my memory. Let me know how things turn out.
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Well then I would say it's the windows updates (irony is a bitch)
Try rebooting then pressing F8 right after it turns back on then hit the last good configuration settings choice
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I'm doing that now, GP. I don't think there was an anti-virus loaded on here when you gave it to me, but I ran the Trend Micro Housecall fairly regularly (never found anything besides tracking cookies), and I downloaded the SUPERAntiSpy program cause you recommended it in another thread recently.
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
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GP, how long does the sysclean thing take to run? I'm in the middle of something time sensitive and I wanna do this tonight, but I also need to plan around the other thing.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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Sorry about the delay in response, it takes a long time. Sometimes an hour, sometimes three or four.
If it looks like you have no viruses, the next step is to make sure the hard drive isn't acting up.
* Click Start
* Click Run
* Type CMD
* Press Enter
* In the new command prompt type chkdsk c: /r
* Press Enter
* Type y
* Press Enter
* Reboot the computer
This process will also take ~1 hr.
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Ash Burton
Title: AshRaiser
Joined: Nov 10 2008
Location: Florida
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Simple solution is to just add RAM. Its about 40 bucks and it really juices the life back into your computer. Its a very easy upgrade.
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Ash is probably just home humping his SNES collection.
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GPFontaine
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Hacker
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Unless all the ram sticks died at once. Then it would be an issue
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GPFontaine
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| Unless all the ram sticks died at once. Then it would be an issue |
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
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