My computer is running painfully slowly very regularly and I could do with some help finding the cause.
The problem seems to be that it will access the hard-drive a great deal when switching applications, opening new windows, that sort of thing. I've got RAM Idle LE running, so I can see that there is plenty (e.g. about 450MB at the moment) spare.
I'm running MS Process Manager to try and see what is taking up all that disk access time. Nothing really clear, but there does seem to be a fair bit of time taken up by FrameworkService.exe . This leads me to think that my original suspicions were correct - that it was the McAfee On-Access scanner that started my trouble. I've uninstalled McAfee and rebooted, but this FrameworkService.exe still seems to be doing something. Does that sound likely?
I've virus-scanned (AVG and McAfee), and have run Swat It, AdAware, Spybot S&D, CCleaner, Drive Defragmenter and Tune-Up (1-click maintenance). There's over 25GB spare on my C drive, with all of my main storage being on E and F (1.5GB and 4.5GB spare respectively). I've also tried to turn off everything I know I don't need from start-up using msconfig.
Can anybody think of what else I could try, short of reinstalling Windows (which I don't fancy at the moment)?
Many thanks in advance.
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Pentium IV, socket 775
Abit AG8 3rd Eye
1GB Corsair DDR 400
Greenpower 450W
Seagate Barracuda 120GB
The problem seems to be that it will access the hard-drive a great deal when switching applications, opening new windows, that sort of thing. I've got RAM Idle LE running, so I can see that there is plenty (e.g. about 450MB at the moment) spare.
I'm running MS Process Manager to try and see what is taking up all that disk access time. Nothing really clear, but there does seem to be a fair bit of time taken up by FrameworkService.exe . This leads me to think that my original suspicions were correct - that it was the McAfee On-Access scanner that started my trouble. I've uninstalled McAfee and rebooted, but this FrameworkService.exe still seems to be doing something. Does that sound likely?
I've virus-scanned (AVG and McAfee), and have run Swat It, AdAware, Spybot S&D, CCleaner, Drive Defragmenter and Tune-Up (1-click maintenance). There's over 25GB spare on my C drive, with all of my main storage being on E and F (1.5GB and 4.5GB spare respectively). I've also tried to turn off everything I know I don't need from start-up using msconfig.
Can anybody think of what else I could try, short of reinstalling Windows (which I don't fancy at the moment)?
Many thanks in advance.
________________________
Pentium IV, socket 775
Abit AG8 3rd Eye
1GB Corsair DDR 400
Greenpower 450W
Seagate Barracuda 120GB