Yeah all the ones i know of, there doesnt appear to be a chipset driver for my system for XP though and that might be the problem... will try to...
Right... I tried reformatting and installing XP again but the problem was the same... I then formatted again and installed Windows 2000, which...
Have you tried downloading ad-aware and spybot, then scanning your computer for pests?
:mad: Thanks anyway modemjunki... Fed up now, going to reformat again a different way to see if the problem goes. Still have no idea what...
Tried the page file theory... no luck :( Modemjunki: You recommend using the dell drivers from the website, did this fix a similar problem to...
Thanks everyone, I tried the online virus scan... it came back clean. Now going to try installing the dell drivers. Charles: I dont really...
Thanks Sparrow I'm pretty sure that isnt the case though as i regularly use spybot, norton etc. Here is the hijackthis log but it appears to...
Right OK.... My system is a Dell Latitude C800 Laptop OS = XP Pro 2002 SP1 1GHz Pentium III processor 256MB Ram As i said before, there...
Yeah but i'm not really sure what exactly to check? It says Processor speed 1GHz/700MHz, dont know if that means anything?
It's now gone back to 1 GHz!!!! Don't know what's going on but there is still no improvement in performance! :mad:
Just noticed something!! When i go to system properties, it tells me that the processor speed is 697MHz... but it isnt!! It is supposed to be...
Yeah the HD is definitely churning more than before and there is no obvious reason. I reformatted just for a general cleanup as i had a...
No, stopping the services doesnt resolve the issue and dont appear to be any guilty processes. The computer appears to be acting far slower in...
PS: The problem still occurrs in safe mode
Hello, Following a recent format of my hard drive, i reinstalled my version of XP Pro to find that the CPU is dramatically higher than it was...
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