problems affecting windows performance

i have some issues with performannce on my pc i am getting a lot of (not responding) and pc freezing screen stopping displaying picture then displaing again? so checked event log and saw a huge ammount of errors warnings and criticals all affecting windows performance

is there a way to fix them all if so how? or is it a case of one at a time if so how?

thanks

Is this something you've long been struggling with, that has been getting gradually worse over time? Or was your system relatively fast and just recently started lagging? If the latter, then you probably have a virus or spyware/adware program causing you trouble. If the former, then... well, there's a lot of things you'd need to do.

First and foremost, you'd want to consult the tutorial on improving the performance of Vista. Note that there are some things you can do to narrow down the culprits, such as some services that may be an unwelcome load on your system. Also, you may be well overdue for a disk defragmentation. In any case, it's time to do some homework, or...

The simpler but more tedious approach is to back up all of your data and wipe your drive clean with a fresh install. Doing this clears out everything so you don't need to be concerned with remembering what you need or don't need. Then, with a clean operating system, you install only those programs you presently need/use. You'll very likely see a marked speed improvement.

Lastly, do you know how much RAM is installed and what the maximum amount is supported in your computer? For example, your PC can hold 4Gb of RAM and you've got just 1Gb installed. In this case, bumping up to even just 2Gb will deliver a marked improvement. Given how cheap memory is, I'd go with 4Gb.

hi thanks for your response

i have recently done a clean install of vista and all updates.
and not installed any programs of my own as yet apart from anti-virus (norton) and browser (chrome)

as for ram it had 1 gb but now has 2gb

if its possible i can copy and paste log files where i saw the error reports?

these are 2 of the erors in the last hour not sureif this inf will he but herit is anyway?

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Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-CEIP
Date: 08/11/2012 13:07:13
Event ID: 1006
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
Description:
A problem prevented Customer Experience Improvement Program data from being consolidated into files that can be sent to Microsoft, (Error 8000000A).
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Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 08/11/2012 12:58:36
Event ID: 7026
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
Null
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heres another warning from the last 24 hours that appears 20 times in last 24hrs

Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-WMI
Date: 07/11/2012 14:51:28
Event ID: 63
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
Description:
A provider, NPU Management Provider, has been registered in the Windows Management Instrumentation namespace root\nVIDIA\NS_FirstPacket to use the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests.

Everyone, including me, has errors, warnings etc on the event viewer. Many members use the event viewer in the wrong way; they use it backwards. If you have a problem the event viewer is meant to be helpful in trying to solve the problem. You should not go to the event viewer and try to stop the error if you are not experiencing problems.
If you are not having problems with your OS, dont worry about the ocasional problem. In any event only critical and error need to ever be a concern.
The errors that you have should not affect your computer performance or cause you to have problems making an image.

Problem 1 forget about that, its nonsense
Problem 2 may be a worry if it continues
Problem 3. What new software did you install, may be a security concern. Make sure you use malwarebytes and Security Essentials.

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 07/11/2012 16:42:17
Event ID: 402
Task Category: System Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
Description:
This process is doing excessive disk activities and is impacting the performance of Windows:
File Name : \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\svchost.exe
Friendly Name : Host Process for Windows Services
Version : 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Thread time : 382ms
Blocked Time : 9531ms
Incident Time (UTC) : 07/11/2012 16:42:02
________________________________________________________________________
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 06/11/2012 16:04:42
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 187475ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 06/11/2012 16:01:25
________________________________________________________________________
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 05/11/2012 18:39:19
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 144903ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 05/11/2012 18:35:41
________________________________________________________________________

again not sure if these help in the diagnosis. thought i would post them in case

thanks

Be sure to read updated post, above.

hi here are some of the critical ones.
no i wasnt using the event viewer to fix or stop (would not know where to start) and would not dare mess with anything like that.
_______________________________________________________________________
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 04/11/2012 18:50:29
Event ID: 401
Task Category: System Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
Description:
This process is using up processor time and is impacting the performance of Windows:
File Name : \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\svchost.exe
Friendly Name : Host Process for Windows Services
Version : 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Thread time : 791ms
Blocked Time : 612ms
Incident Time (UTC) : 04/11/2012 18:50:06
_______________________________________________________________________
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 05/11/2012 01:22:33
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 201677ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 05/11/2012 01:18:58
________________________________________________________________________
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 04/11/2012 22:20:46
Event ID: 200
Task Category: Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: ACER-PC
Description:
Windows has shutdown:
Shutdown Duration : 309234ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 04/11/2012 22:09:48
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Problem 3. What new software did you install, may be a security concern. Make sure you use malwarebytes and Security Essentials.

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norton internet security
chrome browser
nvidia chipset and graphics updated drivers
macrium reflect free
silverlight
adobe flash player 11 active x
java 7 update 9

that is all that has been installed since clean install

apart from driver max that was installed after os then uninstall once drivers had been restored

ok i will go and get malware bytes.
security essentials? (is that antivirus) as i have norton installed?

thanks

Java is a known problem. Not needed very often. Unistall and see if you have problems at some sites.

ok i will uninstall and see
however it was only installed yesterday and the problems are dated before yesterday?

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 04/11/2012 18:50:29
Event ID: 401
Task Category: System Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
Description:
This process is using up processor time and is impacting the performance of Windows:
File Name : \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\svchost.exe
Friendly Name : Host Process for Windows Services
Version : 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Thread time : 791ms
Blocked Time : 612ms
Incident Time (UTC) : 04/11/2012 18:50:06
_______________________________________________________________________
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 05/11/2012 01:22:33
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 201677ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 05/11/2012 01:18:58
________________________________________________________________________
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 04/11/2012 22:20:46
Event ID: 200
Task Category: Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: ACER-PC
Description:
Windows has shutdown:
Shutdown Duration : 309234ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 04/11/2012 22:09:48
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these ones for instance are the same day and day after re-install of os before any programs whete installed. other than maybe driver max as i installed that straight after
os to restore drivers

Regardless of what your event viewer shows, java is not used often and is a known security problem.

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 04/11/2012 18:50:29
Event ID: 401
Task Category: System Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
Description:
This process is using up processor time and is impacting the performance of Windows:
File Name : \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\svchost.exe
Friendly Name : Host Process for Windows Services
Version : 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Thread time : 791ms
Blocked Time : 612ms
Incident Time (UTC) : 04/11/2012 18:50:06
_______________________________________________________________________
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 05/11/2012 01:22:33
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 201677ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 05/11/2012 01:18:58
________________________________________________________________________
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 04/11/2012 22:20:46
Event ID: 200
Task Category: Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: ACER-PC
Description:
Windows has shutdown:
Shutdown Duration : 309234ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 04/11/2012 22:09:48
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these ones for instance are the same day and day after re-install of os before any programs whete installed. other than maybe driver max as i installed that straight after
os to restore drivers

ok as i say i will remove that.

as for the other probs (critical errors) any advice?

im running malware bytes now will report back what it finds

Java has had security problems in the past, like other kinds of software (namely browsers). But it seems pretty solid to me at this point. Some of us have no choice to use it for some kinds of programs.

Rich is correct, that the event log will show errors periodically that are far from fatal... but what is not shown is that most of the time Windows recovers from them without any negative consequence. I would note that with a fresh cleanly installed operating system, one shouldn't see errors but instead warnings... and even if errors show up, there shouldn't be many of them. That's just by default.

Java had a security breach after the last security update.

^ Yeah, and Apple iOS folks were vulnerable. That was a bit of a botch... but at least it was caught before malware could be developed to exploit it.