Would you send a snapshot of the running processes in the task manager.


"Greg" <Greg@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> Almost a year ago I purchased my brand new desktop Hp Pavilion, 64 bit OS
> Windows Home Premium (service Pack 2) Memory 6GB AMD Phenon 9850 Quad
> Core
> Processor. 800 GB hard drive (600 GB free)
> Everything worked beautiful for about 2 month the all of the sudden I
> started experience major problems. Out of a blue my comp stopped
> responding
> to all commands (everything was timing out, took about 10 minutes to open
> any
> programs, more then 30 minutes to shut it down and about the same to start
> it.)
> I called HP helpdesk and they instructed me to recover my computer to
> original settings, which resolved this issue temporarily for about 2
> weeks.
> First I was thinking that this is maybe due to some programs I added after
> recovery so when it happened for a second time I run recovery again and
> installed my programs one by one over a next month to see which one may
> cause
> the problem.
> For a next couple month everything was perfect, my PC worked like a little
> server and my luck run out about a month ago. I am back facing this
> problem
> again.
> Takes almost an hour for OS to load all icons and programs after a
> startup.
> Programs not responding or takes me about 10 minutes to open Outlook or
> Firefox (after getting few messages that program is not responding.)
> 10 minutes to open Control Panel or My Computer.
> If I want to do a restore it is taking about 2 hrs to show my restore
> points
> (sometimes I get a message that there are no restore points created on
> this
> computer, where in fact I know they were.)
> I noticed that if there is something wrong network icon is loading were
> slow, showing that I am not connected to the network.
> Last thing that is loaded is Security Center showing that Security center
> can not find antivirus program.
>
> Here is what I tried so far:
> 1. All Windows updates are up to date.
> 2. I removed (using removal tool) Norton antivirus program and installed
> full version of AVG antivirus
> Since I still was getting messages from Security Center and not much help
> from AVG support I decided to remove AVG and I installed Kaspersky
> antivirus.
> 3. Installed CCleaner and Spybot and cleaned my PC
> 4. Installed full version of……….
> 5. Check repository using /verifyrepository and /salvagerepository
> commands
> and received message that repository is consistent.
> 6. Run hardware diagnostics and diskcheck with no problems
> 7. Defragmented my hardware on weekly bases.
> 8. Run virus check (no problems found too.)
>
> At this time I don’t know what else can I do anymore to fix my problem. I
> am afraid that if I even do another recovery and restore everything I
> backed
> up problem will come back and recovery is not a solution. Any other
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>

After recovering your sys, applying Vista updates, did you also use MSUpdate
for driver updates?
Boot into Safe Mode, see how it behaves

"Greg" <Greg@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:7E582E8E-2C0C-4C17-A500-76D5862F6ED5@newsgroup

> Almost a year ago I purchased my brand new desktop Hp Pavilion, 64 bit OS
> Windows Home Premium (service Pack 2) Memory 6GB AMD Phenon 9850 Quad
> Core
> Processor. 800 GB hard drive (600 GB free)
> Everything worked beautiful for about 2 month the all of the sudden I
> started experience major problems. Out of a blue my comp stopped
> responding
> to all commands (everything was timing out, took about 10 minutes to open
> any
> programs, more then 30 minutes to shut it down and about the same to start
> it.)
> I called HP helpdesk and they instructed me to recover my computer to
> original settings, which resolved this issue temporarily for about 2
> weeks.
> First I was thinking that this is maybe due to some programs I added after
> recovery so when it happened for a second time I run recovery again and
> installed my programs one by one over a next month to see which one may
> cause
> the problem.
> For a next couple month everything was perfect, my PC worked like a little
> server and my luck run out about a month ago. I am back facing this
> problem
> again.
> Takes almost an hour for OS to load all icons and programs after a
> startup.
> Programs not responding or takes me about 10 minutes to open Outlook or
> Firefox (after getting few messages that program is not responding.)
> 10 minutes to open Control Panel or My Computer.
> If I want to do a restore it is taking about 2 hrs to show my restore
> points
> (sometimes I get a message that there are no restore points created on
> this
> computer, where in fact I know they were.)
> I noticed that if there is something wrong network icon is loading were
> slow, showing that I am not connected to the network.
> Last thing that is loaded is Security Center showing that Security center
> can not find antivirus program.
>
> Here is what I tried so far:
> 1. All Windows updates are up to date.
> 2. I removed (using removal tool) Norton antivirus program and installed
> full version of AVG antivirus
> Since I still was getting messages from Security Center and not much help
> from AVG support I decided to remove AVG and I installed Kaspersky
> antivirus.
> 3. Installed CCleaner and Spybot and cleaned my PC
> 4. Installed full version of....
> 5. Check repository using /verifyrepository and /salvagerepository
> commands
> and received message that repository is consistent.
> 6. Run hardware diagnostics and diskcheck with no problems
> 7. Defragmented my hardware on weekly bases.
> 8. Run virus check (no problems found too.)
>
> At this time I don't know what else can I do anymore to fix my problem. I
> am afraid that if I even do another recovery and restore everything I
> backed
> up problem will come back and recovery is not a solution. Any other
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>