Machine slows to crawl, no other program running

Hello, I ran sypbot and ad aware and have Sophos antivirus running all
the time. Something has been boggin my system down later, so I have to
wait for every little task. I have a Dell D800 laptop with 2 gigs of
ram. When no progrms are running, in the performance dialoge, the
pages/sec is completely maxed out TEh cpu is running about 70% and the
average cue length is about 60 percent. I have 14 items in my system
tray, sophos anti virus, spybot, smart sync for backups, hotsync for
palm, hot folders, which gives recent folders, ad aware service, the
rest are sound, disconnect device, windows stuff. 49 processes are
running. SavService a sophos part is using significant parts of cpu,
40, 50, .... But I need it.
If I restart the computer runs great.

Is my computer hijacked? Is something running I can't find? How do I
stop this?

Thanks
Jimk

Plato
Mon Jan 07 00:26:03 PST 2008

CharlesBlackstone wrote:
>
> Hello, I ran sypbot and ad aware and have Sophos antivirus running all
> the time. Something has been boggin my system down later, so I have to
> wait for every little task. I have a Dell D800 laptop with 2 gigs of
> ram. When no progrms are running, in the performance dialoge, the
> pages/sec is completely maxed out TEh cpu is running about 70% and the
> average cue length is about 60 percent. I have 14 items in my system
> tray, sophos anti virus, spybot, smart sync for backups, hotsync for
> palm, hot folders, which gives recent folders, ad aware service, the
> rest are sound, disconnect device, windows stuff. 49 processes are
> running. SavService a sophos part is using significant parts of cpu,
> 40, 50, .... But I need it.
> If I restart the computer runs great.
>
> Is my computer hijacked? Is something running I can't find? How do I
> stop this?

14 items is a tad too much. One of them is bogging down your system.

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JBlain
Tue Jan 08 13:08:46 PST 2008


Charles-
This is John, a support technician working from Dell headquarters. I
wanted to chime in and see if I could help.
I agree with Plato, 14 processes in your systray is a tad too much, and
one of them is most likely causing the problem. I recommend using
cleanboot troubleshooting to find out which one is causing the issue,
and removing the program responsible. The following Microsoft article
outlines the steps you should use:
'How to perform a clean boot procedure to prevent background programs
from interfering with a game or a program that you currently use'
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796)
If you run into any problems, post back here, and I'll do what I can to
help.
John
Dell Customer Advocate


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crazyal
Tue Jan 08 13:21:22 PST 2008

i am running sophos on a older system and it does not use that much
cpu usage it only uses 3% at the most.

Ken
Tue Jan 08 15:19:16 PST 2008

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:08:46 +0000, JBlain <JBlain@dellweb20.com>
wrote:


> Charles-
> This is John, a support technician working from Dell headquarters. I
> wanted to chime in and see if I could help.
> I agree with Plato, 14 processes in your systray is a tad too much,


The *number of items in the system tray (or even the total number of
background programs running) is almost completely irrelevant. What is
important is *which* programs they are. Some of them can hurt
performance severely, but others have no effect on performance.


> and
> one of them is most likely causing the problem.



That could very well be. If it is one of them, then that's the
issue--*which* one is the one causing the problem, not how many there
are.

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JBlain
Mon Feb 04 11:35:02 PST 2008


While Ken is correct, that the number is largely irrelevant, it i
highly unlikely, with 14 programs dropping icons in your systray, tha
one of them is NOT adversely affecting system performance. 14 is mor
than I've seen on any other system I've worked on that has had softwar
problems, and with each program running on startup there is an increase
chance that one of them won't play nicely with the others, or that on
of them is malicious. It's just a matter of statistics and probability
That being said, were you able to ferrett out the problem

Joh
Dell Customer Advocat

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