I down loaded spyware doctor 5.5 with antivirus, took off AVG
and installed and ran the new one. Found a few things but nothing bad.
Searching on the internet proved that no one really has a clue.
Except for the posts on bad hard drives. I have two 500gigs a maxtor as
drive 1 and WD as drive 2 downloaded and ran tests, S.M.A.R.T was fine on all
drives. Drive tests also tested good except for one small problem. My SATA
cable was causing an error. I changed the cable and so far all is well
almost 24 hours with out a slowdown or error.
Off all the posts I have read none had suggested changing the HD cable.
"jlk" wrote:
Quote:
> Unfortunately, that did not solve the problem. But I've discovered that it
> happens when vista backup (set to backup to an external western digital
> mybook drive) comes on automatically, and I happen to start a progam. The
> program then crashes, the physical ram gauge spikes to 99% and gets stuck
> there, and everything slows to a crawl. Control ALT Delete will then
> (evenually) cause the logon error message. Then, unplugging the external
> drive will eventually get the physical ram gauge to go down (to about 15%)
> and the machine's performance will improve but not come back to normal. Only
> rebooting makes it useable again. For now, I'm going to disable automatic
> vista backup and see what happens.
>
> "Heather1995" wrote:
> Quote:
> > Yes, do let me know if that works. With all the postings on the internet of
> > people that are having this problem and virtually no solutions listed by
> > anyone (including Microsoft), I'm curious about this.
> >
> > The slow down "bug" got me a week ago! Thought it was a virus or some bad malware. I thought the computer was locked up but the cursor would still move, it was just really was just really slow, taking 3 or 4 minutes to respond to a mouse click!