Vista Suddenly Slowed Down

[Madandfrustrate]

My computer was running perfectly fine about a week ago,but now its become 100% slower! I got Norton Internet Security 2009 and Spyware Doctor and used them both to scan my computer, solved a few viruses and that was it. I have no new programs installed,in fact, I'd removed some programs. (except for NIS 2009/Spyware Doctor(It was also slow before I got those)) It was still slow...it takes literally about a minute to open programs and about 5 minutes just to start up. Normally it would take 1-2 seconds to open programs and 2 minutes to start up. I really have no clue what to do right now and this is really piddling me off right now!

Can someone PLEASE help me?

 

[whs]

Check with Process Explorer what's eating your CPU. ( Process Explorer ) And do not run Spyware Doctor along with NIS09. Make sure Spyware Doctor is not in the startups. Spyware Doctor can really mess things up. I have banned it from my systems.

 

[Madandfrustrate]

Check with Process Explorer what's eating your CPU. ( Process Explorer ) And do not run Spyware Doctor along with NIS09. Make sure Spyware Doctor is not in the startups. Spyware Doctor can really mess things up. I have banned it from my systems.

Hey thanks for the tip. It was slow before I got Spyware doctor though...

 

[Madandfrustrate]

Check with Process Explorer what's eating your CPU. ( Process Explorer ) And do not run Spyware Doctor along with NIS09. Make sure Spyware Doctor is not in the startups. Spyware Doctor can really mess things up. I have banned it from my systems.

Oh,hey I found out that "System Idle Process" is eating up about 90 of my cpu...what should I do?

 

[archie123]

Check with Process Explorer what's eating your CPU. ( Process Explorer ) And do not run Spyware Doctor along with NIS09. Make sure Spyware Doctor is not in the startups. Spyware Doctor can really mess things up. I have banned it from my systems.

Oh,hey I found out that "System Idle Process" is eating up about 90 of my cpu...what should I do?

nothing thats fine

try a clean boot tell us what its like booting into a clean vista enviroment

How to perform a clean boot procedure to determine whether background programs are interfering with a game or a program that you currently use

if this helps the rest is easy.........

 

[whs]

Ok, if system idle process is 90%, that means your CPU is doing quasi nothing. So the bottleneck must be somewhere else. The next candidate is the disk. There could be contention - probably from paging. Fire up Process Explorer again, click on "Process" and look at the next two after System idle process. Those are "Interrupts" and DPCs". Especially the DPCs (deferred procedure calls) are interesting. If they are under one (1.00), you are ok but if they are over four (4.00), there may be a problem.
It would be useful to know the size of your RAM.

 

[Antihiatus]

Run Malware bytes, ccleaner.
it's all freeware. check your start up programs and ram usage

 

[saeedizadi]

Hi my friend
U have a question,
have you ever tries to end system idle process?
if yes what happened?

 

[Antihiatus]

do you mean for RAM? or something else? I use it for ram and it works 100% fine