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Over the past few days my computer has been quite annoying indeed. Starting around say... the 29th, the slugishness began. Every time I type anything, such as in a search box online, in an e-mail, in this very box I'm typing in now, and in IMs, there is a long pause with nothing showing up and no sign that I am even typing. Only after I have stopped typing for more than around 3 seconds do the words I have just typed appear. This is quite the annoyance...
Ontop of that, whenever I open a new IE window, not only is everything about it slow, but when I click the drop down box too soon (as in within 10 seconds of the browser popping up), everything freezes and gets sluggish for a few seconds then jumps to what it's doing again.
I do ctrl-alt-delete and notice that System Idle Processes is taking over 99% of my CPU away. This kind of boggles my mind, so I restart the computer. I go into My Computer, right click the C\ drive and proceed to do a disk cleanup... 10 minutes later it still hasn't begun to show any progress or make any noise, so I cancel. I ctrl-alt-delete once again and it shows that the cleaning manager is now taking 90 somethin% of my CPU away, even after I canceled the cleaning process... so I end it's process. Low and behold, System Idle Processes jumps back to 99%.
So here's what I did... I intsalled the box of Norton Antivirus 2004 that's been on my desk for the past 2 weeks or so. It ran and dedected 9 cases of adware. I told it to delete them all, and the deletes failed according to Norton. So I downloaded the newest version of Lavasoft's Adaware and it finds over 240 and computer, and supposedly quarintines everything. Well now not only can I still not do a disk cleanup, I can't even run Norton Antivirus2004I , and my text is still delayed as is the IE browsers. System Idle processes at this very moment is still at 99%.
To top it all off, starting yesterday my Comcast e-mail through Microsoft Outlook has been giving me errors that it's unable to connect to my POP3 mail server, even though when I run a test in the tools, it says that it finds the server. I have resorted to just checking the mail online, which was the only way I was able to confirm my registration to this website a few minutes ago. I don't know if this is related to the problems above though.
Anyone have any idea what could be goign on and how I could possibly fix it? Hard Drives pace is not decreasing in the least bit, it's just everything is very very slow. Thanks!!
Edit: Also, the 30th when I decided to do something about the sluggishness, I did a search for everything changed or added on the 29th... it found a lot but none of which I thoguht was very relevent except for a few cookies which I deleted.
The only things I know different that I've done the past few days are that I installed UT2K4 on my other HD (not the C\), ran the speech tutorial with headphones for Microsoft's speech program thing in Word... and that's about it. I've run MSCONFIG and shut down everything that even thinks of popping up when windows starts that I know isn't necessary. The problems persist.
Ontop of that, whenever I open a new IE window, not only is everything about it slow, but when I click the drop down box too soon (as in within 10 seconds of the browser popping up), everything freezes and gets sluggish for a few seconds then jumps to what it's doing again.
I do ctrl-alt-delete and notice that System Idle Processes is taking over 99% of my CPU away. This kind of boggles my mind, so I restart the computer. I go into My Computer, right click the C\ drive and proceed to do a disk cleanup... 10 minutes later it still hasn't begun to show any progress or make any noise, so I cancel. I ctrl-alt-delete once again and it shows that the cleaning manager is now taking 90 somethin% of my CPU away, even after I canceled the cleaning process... so I end it's process. Low and behold, System Idle Processes jumps back to 99%.
So here's what I did... I intsalled the box of Norton Antivirus 2004 that's been on my desk for the past 2 weeks or so. It ran and dedected 9 cases of adware. I told it to delete them all, and the deletes failed according to Norton. So I downloaded the newest version of Lavasoft's Adaware and it finds over 240 and computer, and supposedly quarintines everything. Well now not only can I still not do a disk cleanup, I can't even run Norton Antivirus2004I , and my text is still delayed as is the IE browsers. System Idle processes at this very moment is still at 99%.
To top it all off, starting yesterday my Comcast e-mail through Microsoft Outlook has been giving me errors that it's unable to connect to my POP3 mail server, even though when I run a test in the tools, it says that it finds the server. I have resorted to just checking the mail online, which was the only way I was able to confirm my registration to this website a few minutes ago. I don't know if this is related to the problems above though.
Anyone have any idea what could be goign on and how I could possibly fix it? Hard Drives pace is not decreasing in the least bit, it's just everything is very very slow. Thanks!!
Edit: Also, the 30th when I decided to do something about the sluggishness, I did a search for everything changed or added on the 29th... it found a lot but none of which I thoguht was very relevent except for a few cookies which I deleted.
The only things I know different that I've done the past few days are that I installed UT2K4 on my other HD (not the C\), ran the speech tutorial with headphones for Microsoft's speech program thing in Word... and that's about it. I've run MSCONFIG and shut down everything that even thinks of popping up when windows starts that I know isn't necessary. The problems persist.
