I'm hoping someone here might be able to help me/suggest some things to tryo to rectify the performance problems I've been having. Here's my dilema:
I am running Windows XP on a COMPAQ Presario with a 2.6 GHz processor, 516 MB RAM & 80 GB Hardrive - if you need more info please let me know. I have a high speed internet service that hasn't changed.
Up until a few months ago I had no problems opening apps, etc. Now everything I open takes much longer than it used to (previously it would take 2-3 sec. to open a new app now its 15-20 sec. or more). It's noticably longer. Also, when I'm running my Internet Explorer every page seems to take forever to open and load. The loading of pages is getting to the point where I am tempted to throw it out my second floor window at times. If I open the Task Manager it will show that the CPU performance will sometimes spike to 100% and stay there for 30 sec. or more and that is with only IE running.
The problem seemed to start around the time my daughters (ages 6 & 9) were playing on it and I have a feeling they may have inadvertantly accepted something from a Pop-Up window. I can't confirm it but I have a feeling. I have tried defragmenting the disk drives using the windows utility to do so but it hasn't seemed to make any consequential difference. I've also tried removing some unused applications but the performance problems.
Also, if it helps, I have my PC set-up to automatically receive MS updates adn around the same time the problems started I received an update prompt that says the following:
"Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1 (KB842773)"
However, everytime I try to accept the download all it does is keep coming back with the prompt. It doesn't seem to load. I sassume this because why would it keep sending me the prompt to download it? I've clicked on the MS link in the download prompt but all I get is directed to the MS website and told why I need it.
Anyway, sorry for the long-winded post. I'm just trying to provide all the information I have.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to figure out the problem or direct me to a website that might have the problem I would be most grateful.
Thanks in advance,
I am running Windows XP on a COMPAQ Presario with a 2.6 GHz processor, 516 MB RAM & 80 GB Hardrive - if you need more info please let me know. I have a high speed internet service that hasn't changed.
Up until a few months ago I had no problems opening apps, etc. Now everything I open takes much longer than it used to (previously it would take 2-3 sec. to open a new app now its 15-20 sec. or more). It's noticably longer. Also, when I'm running my Internet Explorer every page seems to take forever to open and load. The loading of pages is getting to the point where I am tempted to throw it out my second floor window at times. If I open the Task Manager it will show that the CPU performance will sometimes spike to 100% and stay there for 30 sec. or more and that is with only IE running.
The problem seemed to start around the time my daughters (ages 6 & 9) were playing on it and I have a feeling they may have inadvertantly accepted something from a Pop-Up window. I can't confirm it but I have a feeling. I have tried defragmenting the disk drives using the windows utility to do so but it hasn't seemed to make any consequential difference. I've also tried removing some unused applications but the performance problems.
Also, if it helps, I have my PC set-up to automatically receive MS updates adn around the same time the problems started I received an update prompt that says the following:
"Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1 (KB842773)"
However, everytime I try to accept the download all it does is keep coming back with the prompt. It doesn't seem to load. I sassume this because why would it keep sending me the prompt to download it? I've clicked on the MS link in the download prompt but all I get is directed to the MS website and told why I need it.
Anyway, sorry for the long-winded post. I'm just trying to provide all the information I have.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to figure out the problem or direct me to a website that might have the problem I would be most grateful.
Thanks in advance,