Slow system response

[mike156]

Hi guys

OS is Windows XP SP3

My system has been extremely slow lately whenever I try to open any type of document or even when I try and access the right click context menu. Average time from performing an action to it being executed is about 30-40 seconds.

The actual system itself is running fine, boot times are acceptable, applications themselves open very quickly. Its just accessing files.

After some google-fu it was suggested that I disable "automatically search for network folders and printers" which did not help, but disabling the nic completely alleviates the issue.

Even after removing all network printers and network folders the problem still persists.

Help me solve this please.

[ChocolateBadger]

CCleaner, download it, it free

[mike156]

Thanks for the reply but I don't think that will solve the issue.

[ChilliGirl]

When last was your PC scanned for virusses and malware?


Any "funny sounds" from your PC, even if only at start-up?

[bekdik]

check the free space on C: - you could be low on swap space

[mike156]

Hi guys

No funny sounds and a network scan from a non-affected pc was done yesterday. 68.5 Gigs free on c: as well. Im pretty sure this is something network related, just cant figure out what.

[mike156]

So after following the advice here and deleting the registry values for network shares, the problem seems to have gone away. Odd thing is there were no links to shares which were taken off the network.

[robertwj]

What Anti-Virus program are you using? I've had problems lately with Microsoft Security Essentials on over 20 client systems where is slows down the PC to death after doing some sort of update. Also yesterday i found a problem where Adobe was causing systems to slow down with the 10.1.13 update.

[mike156]

As I said earlier I have solved the problem already by manually clearing out network share registry entries.Was and still am using MSE but I tried other anti virus software while trying to troubleshoot but that didn't fix the issue, the only way to temporarily fix it was to disable the NIC.