[KungFuJew]

My XP used to be pretty quick, i got 2gb of ram, 2.4 amd 64 bit cpu and 5 hard drives
i dont have any spyware or adware, since i check it every week with 3 diff programs

It boots very slowly and runs even slower since about 5 months ago. i dont see anything eating the memory or hogging the cpu. it shows the cpu isnt working hard at all on my cpu/mem meter. i tried to increase the page file to double the amount but nothing changed.

For some reason mem turbo is showing that i have no page file at all and 2gb of ram?!? why is that. is there some problem somewhere i am not seeing

Thanks Alex

[Rich-M]

Running any Norton Utilities? Tell us about your hardware, esepcially your power supply as I hope there is a good quality at least 550 for what you are running there.

[KungFuJew]

i have norton antivirus, spybot, messenger, and a couple of small programs

[KungFuJew]

would a power supply cause this? its been runnig fine before. now it takes a very long time to boot up!!!

[Rich-M]

Originally Posted by KungFuJew

would a power supply cause this? its been runnig fine before. now it takes a very long time to boot up!!!

Running 5 hard drives, which is a big drain, made me ask that question and the brand is as important as the wattage on this issue.

[saltydawgs]

please run MGA Diag
i believe it can be found on the microsoft website, if not theres always google

then post the log here (it can show us if you are running a genuine verision of windows or if it has been modified etc.

[saltydawgs]

^hes got a point

yea 5 HDD...is that necessary?

[KungFuJew]

2 internal, 4 external usb. would usb drain that much to slow it down???

[Rich-M]

Anything plugged in will produce a drain on power...

[KungFuJew]

i'll try to turn off 4 of the usb drives and c if that makes a big diff

thanks