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My A6NE suddenly became extremely sluggish

post #1 of 14
8/22/05 at 12:54am
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I bought an Asus A6NE last week and within the past two days, it's been extremely sluggish when starting up Windows (specifically, at the point where it says "Loading Your Personal Settings"). It will just hang there for about 30 seconds and then my desktop will slowly load. Norton Internet Security is completely updated and ran a virus scan. Windows Update is all up to date with security patches and SP2. The only other programs that I installed on this thing are Photoshop, Office XP, and PGP for security (it's a laptop after all). I even ran System Restore and went back in time to when the laptop was fast and it didn't work.

The only thing I can think of that could be slowing it down is that my PGP encrypted files are 5GB each and I have 3 of them for a total of 15GB. Could a 5GB file be slowing down a laptop like this? To make it even stranger, after it all starts up, it goes back to being the normal speed.

So what could be the problem? Anyone wanna take a stab at it?
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post #2 of 14
8/22/05 at 12:56am
Hum, how about wireless?
Try disabling the wireless adapter in the Device Manager and try booting up.
See how that goes.

HTH

mrfocus
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post #3 of 14
8/22/05 at 12:58am
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Yeah I already tried disabling that and it had no effect.

I started it up in Safe Mode with no Services or programs running and it ran the way it should. So now I am guessing there is some service that is causing it to lag.
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post #4 of 14
8/22/05 at 1:00am
Hum, then you should do: Start>Run>msconfig
And one by one disable the services which are drivers, etc.
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post #5 of 14
8/22/05 at 1:03am
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lol alright...this is gonna take some time.
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post #6 of 14
8/22/05 at 1:10am
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Originally Posted by PCTGuy
lol alright...this is gonna take some time.
Hehe, yeah sorry I can't help more. I'm just doing some general troubleshooting.
There might be a simple, known solution, so you might want to wait until tomorrow afternoon/evening before taking some time to fix it. Someone might just respond with a simple solution.
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post #7 of 14
8/22/05 at 1:12am
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Hmm well the only other thing that I can think of is that my processor is running at 129 degrees farenheit according NBProbe. Is that bad?
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post #8 of 14
8/22/05 at 1:48am
that sounds really hot to me
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post #9 of 14
8/22/05 at 12:37pm
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ha...I think I fixed it. I was going through some newsgroup archives on google and found someone who had similar symptoms and it turned out that his My Documents folder was too large. That's where I keep my PGP files. I am currently transferring them to another partition (which should take about 25 minutes on this slow 5400rpm HDD)
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post #10 of 14
8/22/05 at 12:38pm
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btw I'll let you guys know if this does the trick once its done.
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post #11 of 14
8/22/05 at 2:42pm
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nope didnt work I guess I'll try defragmenting my drive then.
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post #12 of 14
8/22/05 at 4:04pm
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ok well just defragmented and its running a LITTLE better right now but I still think there is some hidden service running that is stalling the system.
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post #13 of 14
8/22/05 at 4:37pm
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Hmm is there any way for me to log or see in real-time what my computer is doing while its starting up?
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post #14 of 14
8/22/05 at 7:21pm
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ah yes fixed it! only took 19 hours straight to solve. it turned out to be a problem with two profiles sharing the same registry during log-on/log-off. I downloaded a program off of Microsoft's website called UPHClean. It runs as a service and ends all the active hives on log-on/log-off.

heres the link for it in case anyone else experiences this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
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