Can someone give me some advise ?

[scottjge]

I have Vista Home Premium 64 and it is getting more and more sluggish with time and I can not find out what is going on. I have defragged, disk cleaned, checked for viruses, spyware, malware, and adware, but have not found anything.

I checked in the performance logs and I am getting a lot of warnings and errors.

Boot time averages around 237906 ms. some of the errors that I am getting involve the following; lsass.exe
explorer.exe
Wsearch
gpsvc
Profsvc
Windefend
SVChost.exe
TrustedInstaller.exe

All of these warnings are either booting errors or shutting down errors. Which may indeed be causing the whole system to be sluggish while opening and closing files. Man it takes forever to get anything done on this thing.

Does anyone have any idea's or know a place where I can start? I have already re-formatted the hard drive and re-installed Vista but I still get the same errors.

Thanks,
Glenn

 

[hclarkjr]

my suggestion, put the vista DVD in, reboot and select boot from DVD and format the drive and install windows. just my .02

 

[zigzag3143]

scott

did you get these errors right after you re-installed vista, or after you re-installed the apps you normally use


Also we need you to fill in your system specs (lower left corner of your posts) so that we know what hardware you have.

ken

 

[scottjge]

I have already formatted the HD and installed Vista for the third time.

I did not get any warnings with the original install. It all started after I got a virus and the computer crashed. I could not do anything with it so I formatted the drive and installed Vista again. Then I could do stuff with it but it was very slow, so I did a check error on the drive, checked for more viruses and everything was fine but just very very slow.



HP Pravillion Special Edition dv 2700 Notebook PC
AMD 64 x 2 TK-57 1.9 GHz
4 meg Ram

 

[hclarkjr]

what type of virus did you get?

 

[scottjge]

I can not remember what it was, sorry.

 

[hclarkjr]

i am wondering if that virus is still there somehow slowing things down??

 

[zigzag3143]

hc

I dont think its still a virus but a complete scan with acurrent AV would tell you for sure. I suggest Eset smart security, or microsoft security essentials

ken

 

[scottjge]

I have Avira Antivirus and spyware detector installed, which originally found the virus so I don't think it is a virus anymore. I guess I will just have to live with it. I am out of idea's .

 

[lemur]

I have already formatted the HD and installed Vista for the third time.

If you have formatted your hard drive, a virus would not persist.

 

[zigzag3143]

The only way a virus could be this persistent is if it was in something that you have installed on all three re-installed (bookmarks, scripts, Gif's, etc), but even then if he runs a virus scan now it wouold show.

I think its hardware

ken

 

[lemur]

Did the computer get slower more quickly the 2nd and 3rd time? Is it running hot?
Chkdsk and do a memory test.