Need PC help

[Shaun @ Tru6]

We have a Dell Precision 470 workstation. 3 months ago, it had Win2000 on it and it was blazing fast. But we wanted to upgrade to Access 2008 due to custom order fulfillment we created, so we had to upgrade to XP Professional.

Since then, it's been running as slow as as a Pentium I that's been dropped down the stairs.

A friend recently took off the McAffee virus junk and put on Avast. still running incredibly slow, for any operation.

I used to program in VB and SQL and can build a decent app, but have no idea on PC stuff other than that.

is there a program that will tell me what is wrong with this computer?

[Scott R]

How much memory do you have, and how much does XP show?

[Mule]

My recommendation would be to run Ccleaner registry scan. Of course slodave will tell you it's useless. I've solved similar problems with it numerous times.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

1 GB of RAM. not sure how to check how much XP is using.

[einreb]

rightclick toolbar, task manager, processes...

anything hogging memory or cpu?

[Scott R]

Yea, check the amount in use, but I don't suggest you run any office 2008 product on a gig, especially access. I bet you're hitting hard into the swap file.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by Scott R

Yea, check the amount in use, but I don't suggest you run any office 2008 product on a gig, especially access. I bet you're hitting hard into the swap file.

Scott, it's everything that's crazy slow, from waking up to opening Thunderbird (email) and that's with nothing else open.

[Scott R]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

Scott, it's everything that's crazy slow, from waking up to opening Thunderbird (email) and that's with nothing else open.

Can you screenshot the performance tab as well? Also why Itunes on a business type machine?

[einreb]

sort by cpu, highest at the top.

-b

[Mule]

Check w/ slodave. You can run "hijack this," post the results and wait for some propellerhead to get his crystal ball revved up.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

[einreb]

Originally Posted by Mule

run "hijack this,"

That would be helpful actually. Some spy/ad ware wont show up on the processes list.

[einreb]

Is EVERYTHING slow?

Or just browsing files? (i.e. there is an XP flaw that causes it to slow to a crawl if you have files mapped to network locations that dont exist or arent available)

[Mule]

Originally Posted by einreb

That would be helpful actually. Some spy/ad ware wont show up on the processes list.

Or you could just run Ccleaner registry scan and let the propellerheads continue their video game.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

everything is slow.

I ran hijack, don't think it did anything, just a big list of unchecked boxes.

Running CCleaner now.

[Scott R]

Whats the amount of free space left on the drive?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

37 Gb

[einreb]

Did CCleaner make a difference?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by einreb

Did CCleaner make a difference?

CCleaner wanted to delete a few hundred files including all cookies. so I just closed it.