bogged down system update

thanks for all the tips, still have the problem. Here's what I did since
the last post:

I got and ran both adAware and Spybot. They found a few bots, but only
about 6 or 7 between them.

I degragged the system.

I restored to the earliest restore point I could.

I scaned for virus with Symantic's real time scanner, and AVG that runs full
time on my system.

I turned of XP's wifi service just in case because I'm connected to a wifi
router. The pc is hard wired with cat5.

No virus found. System is clean spyware wise. Defragged fine. Watching
this thing, I noticed when it bogs down, the led for the hard drive is on,
so something is accessing the hard drive and causing this. At least that's
my guess. If I wait a while, 2 or 3 minutes, the led usually goes out, and
then the system works fine again.

If I reboot, it always returns to normal operation for a while. Windows
hasn't said anything late about the video driver (since I updated it.)

Anybody got any other suggestions?

oh yeah, by the way, everything is turned off in start up except for ave and
NvCpl.dll which is an Nvidia dll. I'll turn that off, too, and see what
happens.

Sammy

''media sniffer'' MS office ''find fast'''?


"~A_Sammy" <bogus.TakeThisOut@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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 > thanks for all the tips, still have the problem. Here's what I did
since
 > the last post:
 >
 > I got and ran both adAware and Spybot. They found a few bots, but
only
 > about 6 or 7 between them.
 >
 > I degragged the system.
 >
 > I restored to the earliest restore point I could.
 >
 > I scaned for virus with Symantic's real time scanner, and AVG that
runs full
 > time on my system.
 >
 > I turned of XP's wifi service just in case because I'm connected to
a wifi
 > router. The pc is hard wired with cat5.
 >
 > No virus found. System is clean spyware wise. Defragged fine.
Watching
 > this thing, I noticed when it bogs down, the led for the hard drive
is on,
 > so something is accessing the hard drive and causing this. At least
that's
 > my guess. If I wait a while, 2 or 3 minutes, the led usually goes
out, and
 > then the system works fine again.
 >
 > If I reboot, it always returns to normal operation for a while.
Windows
 > hasn't said anything late about the video driver (since I updated
it.)
 >
 > Anybody got any other suggestions?
 >
 > oh yeah, by the way, everything is turned off in start up except for
ave and
 > NvCpl.dll which is an Nvidia dll. I'll turn that off, too, and see
what
 > happens.
 >
 > Sammy
 >
 >
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