breaking 14thousand

[ConTRo13R]

14198 was my last 3dmark score! so why the hell does it still take near to 2minutes to start up my pc and why does firefox keep freezing amongst other general use programs!

I'v done a lot of optimisation to windows and to no avail, have all the latest updates for avg, s&d and yes i do have a firewall!

Spec as in sig.

Any help would be grateful!

 

[paradigm]

Operating system? Amount of RAM? What's going on with CPU and MEM load when the freezes happen?

etc etc etc

 

[ConTRo13R]

ah yea does help lol xp pro, 2gb ram 4-4-4-15 timings slightly underclocked.

just general freezing whenever i click anything, hangs for ages, program window goes white and then carries on.

my system is stable too!

CPU and MEM load are low no more than 8% on cpu and never really over 650-700mb ram being used!

 

[GhostlyPea]

Got al ist of everything in you task manager? Some programs that are 'malicious' appear there but not detected by malware programs. Anything out of the ordinary in add/remove programs?

- Pea0n

 

[ConTRo13R]

nope nothing out of the ordinary, i keep a close eye on processes, start-up items and services i run a scheduled virus scan everyday too! as do i regularly check for spyware, i used to be able to start up from post to desktop in just over 40 seconds! what has gone wrong!

 

[Ethics]

Presumably you defrag, keep the registry clean etc.?

I'd say it's something at startup... turn em off 1 by one? use prcoess of elimination?

Maybe it's SP3?

When was the last time you formatted? OS' aquire cruft like logs etc. over time

 

[ConTRo13R]

defrag, check drive errors, clean registry every week yes, combed start up files in msconfig and the registry and have them to bare minimun. dont have sp3, am still with sp2. last formatted (fully installed windows) last month had new motherboard so needed to, cruft logs? thats macs isnt it? you mean like preftech? all temporary files get deleted, but i keep boot files prefteched