justpassingby

M: is the first partition on your second drive. Set a 100-100 page file on c: and a 1900-1900 page file on m: then restart the computer (so that the page files get created) and defrag c: and m:

Forcing windows to unload the dlls is not needed. Removing unneeded shortcuts in the startup folder can help, but better save those shortcut somewhere else in case you find out they were needed after all.

Which problems are you still having with this computer ?

Have you tried using the onboard video instead of the PCI video card ? See whether this makes any changes.

Have you tried reverting to XP's firewall and uninstall Zone Alarm ?

You could uninstall everything that's related to yahoo, you don't need the yahoo toolbar if you're using firefox which already has a quick search bar.

Any error messages in the device manager (start => run => devmgmt.msc) ? Check "show hidden devices" in the view menu.

Is your mouse an usb mouse ? Try a ps/2 one and see if the problem still happens.

We should still wait until an hardware tech tells us exactly which power supply you need and you get a new power supply, if we're lucky this could solve your problem.

justpassingby

Ok, sent a PM to TheMatt to ask advice about your PSU and he advised this one :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817703009

Don't know if newegg ships to Brazil so have a look at the other 700W models in the High End Power gamer range at the bottom of this thread and see if you can get one of those at your place.

Btw, would this be a correct summary of your specs :
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2.4GHZ
1GB Memory
GeForce 7600GS 512MB
water cooling system AQUACOOL
2 IDE HDD (WD 200GB, Seagate 250GB)
Probably 1 floppy drive, 1 DVD drive, 1 DVD burner and 2-3 USB devices ?

jaz_martin

All specs perfectly correct except for the USB ports, I have 6 of them and three card readers, I use quite a bit of portable media,cameras,memory sticks etc.......which is very important for my work.

The PSU link shows a descent case however I am highly considering one with two fans....I dont care about noise levels as long as it does not sound like a bulldozer and bother people while they are sleeping.The AquaCool probably draws a nice load from the PSU right.


Everything was working just fine (just a bit slow maybe because my MOBO and Processor are 4 years old and i probably heated them up a bit already) until I did the edit in the registry to unload DLLs (which i deleted), deleted few start-up shortcuts (which yes i should have saved) and used the Registry Mechanic (saved backup and reinstated it).Then i tried system restore ( i made a check point before using Registry Mechanic) and it did not work.

I do not think Registry Mechanic did any damage. Skype is the program that spikes the CPU, i had a problem with it before and unisntalled and downloaded it again at which point it was working fine until...see the first paragraph above.

I need to learn for the system restore to make more check points. Also you are a Windows Tech so you probably could help me optomize my system performance which should keep it a little cooler unitl hardware upgrade takes place and will help in the future.

justpassingby

Well the basic rule is the less you have installed the faster it'll run but we can't really change your power needs by changing some software settings.

Have a look at these threads :
http://www.techsupportforum.com/arti...imisation.html
http://www.techsupportforum.com/micr...-computer.html

Else there's still the possibilty to backup all your valuable data and reinstall Windows from scratch. This will get rid of any software problem you could have.

Be sure to check my previous post since you posted nearly at the same time.

Edit : ok, just saw you edited your post. The number of USB ports in not important, what's important is the number of USB devices you have connected in them. The card reader will need some power though.

Unplug the USB devices you don't need and use a ps/2 mouse and keyboard if possible until you've got a quality PSU.

jaz_martin

I am going to try an older restore point...rather it works or not will religiously study links to optimize the system.

justpassingby

Don't forget that you'll have to reinstall all the critical updates from windows update between now and the time the restore point was created. Some programs you installed after the restore point was created may also stop working, in which case you'll need to reinstall them as well.

jaz_martin

I restored to 3 days ago.......outlook wont work and if i reinstall i dont want to loose the date,skype still spikes the cpu as well as outlook.Msn messenger still works.

I dont understand, shouldnt system restore undo all the dumb things i have done?

P.S.> For a couple weeks my Task manager shows running at 250mb or more which is high while im using the antivirus firewall and graphics card.It used to be at 210 max using all of these. And since that has started happening a Run.dll has been running for what I have no idea!

Attached Images

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jaz_martin

I must be really slow or something....i updated (configured) Zone Alarm Firewall to accept Skyp and it just works fine....so thats what must have been causing the problem all along...I guess when I had the trojan downloader and virus problems it reconfigured a whole lot of things.

Let us see if I could get Outlook to work as well......The start-up still runs high memory usage.

jaz_martin

Ok, Outlook works fine. It didnt start the first time so it asked me to start in safe mode which i accepted that didnt work either.So, i have tried the Zone Alarm configuration for it.When I clicked on the Outlook icon it opened a window telling me that safe mode didnt work and asked permission to repair.I also accepted.Then it dug up some Microsoft windows & Front page and now it works.

I honestly dont know if they are working because of system restore (and Registry Mechanic messed some things up) or the Zone Alarm Firewall configurations(most likely).

However, i think i still have some memory leaks using windowxs xp.

Bottom line folks get a windows original official cd and forget back - ups of it.I know microsoft got really slick and now that doesnt come with a new computer, maybe because the manufacturers dont want to pay for it any longer who knows.

P.S.> Just passing By....you are like crawling here with me instead of passing by...i know...you got a bonafide newbie on your hands...sucks but what can i do...


Will try all those optimize links and see if the memory usage (not CPU) goes down a little.

What is your opinnion on Resgistry Mechanic? I have been using System Mechanic for a couple years and it never gave me any problems.

Thanks....will let you guys know in the next couple of days the rest off the story...

1 g0t 0wn3d

whats taking up the usage?

justpassingby

I hadn't thought of checking the firewall's settings. I'll remember that next time a user has a high CPU usage whith an internet related process.

I've not used any registry cleaner since the time I was using Windows 98 so I cant' really tell you whether Registry Mechanics is good or not, but registry cleaners are usually not needed. If they remove the wrong keys you're in trouble.

250MB of commit charge is not much with XP. I'd be happy with that and there's no need to try decreasing the memory usage if you're not having slowdowns.

jaz_martin

I am showing slow-downs respectively and relatively speaking to before all these problems started. I would say between 35%-50% slow down.I mean things are not that slow but they were much much faster.

Right now the usage (memory) is at 352mb with Firewall,Antivirus,Video Graphics card, IE running.

Before all these problems with these same programs running it would go most 220mb sometimes 230mb max.

I am not using USB mouse or keyboard nor do I have any device plugged in since this thread was started.

The most usage EXEs are SVHost, VSmon, Explorer, IE, Skype, and Firefox. Most of my configurations were screwed up after the trojan virus attacks.

Even the time is different on the forum for the last three days (so i rescanned and used all same security procedures as before advised by your Security team...NOTHING CLEAN.
IE for examples closes when i have various windows open and i close only one???!???

I am attaching a snapshot of Task Manager and SmitFrauds running processes:


Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\guard.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgamsvr.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cisvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cidaemon.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\HiJackThis\HijackThis.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
R3 - URLSearchHook: Yahoo! Toolbar - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn\yt.dll
O2 - BHO: Yahoo! Toolbar Helper - {02478D38-C3F9-4EFB-9B51-7695ECA05670} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn\yt.dll
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: Skype add-on (mastermind) - {22BF413B-C6D2-4d91-82A9-A0F997BA588C} - C:\Program Files\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\SkypeIEPlugin.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: Yahoo! IE Services Button - {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_02\bin\ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar3.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Notifier BHO - {AF69DE43-7D58-4638-B6FA-CE66B5AD205D} - C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\2.0.301.7164\swg.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Yahoo! Toolbar - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn\yt.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar3.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ZoneAlarm Client] "C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] "RUNDLL32.EXE" C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] "nwiz.exe" /install
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG7_CC] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe /STARTUP
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MSConfig] C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSConfig.exe /auto
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [VoipStunt] "C:\Program Files\VoipStunt.com\VoipStunt\VoipStunt.exe" -nosplash -minimized
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [AVG7_Run] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgw.exe /RUNONCE (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\Run: [AVG7_Run] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgw.exe /RUNONCE (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-18\..\Run: [AVG7_Run] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgw.exe /RUNONCE (User 'SYSTEM')
O4 - HKUS\.DEFAULT\..\Run: [AVG7_Run] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgw.exe /RUNONCE (User 'Default user')
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Yahoo! Search - file:///C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsrch.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate with &Babylon - res://C:\Program Files\Babylon\Babylon-Pro\Utils\BabylonIEPI.dll/Translate.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Dictionary - file:///C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycdict.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Maps - file:///C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycmap.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &SMS - file:///C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsms.htm
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_02\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_02\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: Send to OneNote - {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\ONBttnIE.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: S&end to OneNote - {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\ONBttnIE.dll
O9 - Extra button: Yahoo! Services - {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll
O9 - Extra button: Skype - {77BF5300-1474-4EC7-9980-D32B190E9B07} - C:\Program Files\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\SkypeIEPlugin.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: Real.com - {CD67F990-D8E9-11d2-98FE-00C0F0318AFE} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\Shdocvw.dll
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS.EXE
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS.EXE
O16 - DPF: {05CA9FB0-3E3E-4B36-BF41-0E3A5CAA8CD8} (Office Genuine Advantage Validation Tool) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=67633
O16 - DPF: {08BEF711-06DA-48B2-9534-802ECAA2E4F9} (PlxInstall Class) - https://www.plaxo.com/down/latest/PlaxoInstall.cab
O16 - DPF: {0EB0E74A-2A76-4AB3-A7FB-9BD8C29F7F75} (CKAVWebScan Object) - http://www.kaspersky.com/kos/eng/par...an_unicode.cab
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsof...?1165521814734
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsof...?1165521795859
O16 - DPF: {8714912E-380D-11D5-B8AA-00D0B78F3D48} (Yahoo! Webcam Upload Wrapper) - http://chat.yahoo.com/cab/yuplapp.cab
O16 - DPF: {9A9307A0-7DA4-4DAF-B042-5009F29E09E1} (ActiveScan Installer Class) - http://acs.pandasoftware.com/actives...ree/asinst.cab
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{B43EF61D-1705-4F0A-AEF3-CFB16415E7A0}: NameServer = 200.165.132.155 200.149.55.140
O18 - Protocol: skype4com - {FFC8B962-9B40-4DFF-9458-1830C7DD7F5D} - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\Skype\SKYPE4~1.DLL
O23 - Service: AVG Anti-Spyware Guard - GRISOFT s.r.o. - C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\guard.exe
O23 - Service: AVG7 Alert Manager Server (Avg7Alrt) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgamsvr.exe
O23 - Service: AVG7 Update Service (Avg7UpdSvc) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc.exe
O23 - Service: AVG E-mail Scanner (AVGEMS) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: TrueVector Internet Monitor (vsmon) - Zone Labs, LLC - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe

I have noticed for the last few days non-stop running of Dllhost.exe and Rundll.exe ???

Usage just went down to 332mb from 352mb........

1 g0t 0wn3d

Sorry i ment when it was spiking

jaz_martin

well funny thing now the time on the forum is correct to my region and memory useag went down to.....320mb not significant but a little bit...

When it spikes its usually Explorer, IE, Firefox, sometimes when skype is on but the program itself doesnt go very high....most of the time EXEs like Svhost VSmon go pretty high as well when its spiking.

jaz_martin

For some reason its not letting me attach the Task Manager snapshot?

jaz_martin

Ok,ok.....I need someone,please, to help me step by step through optimizing windows.

Hardware will have to wait about three months , will set it up before the hot season here in Brazil.

See you guys tommorrow!

lewislink

If you don't mind my input, i would highly recommend uninstalling the AVG anti-spyware program. It is a troublesome program. You can use effectively in its place Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad Aware as well as SpywareBlaster and Windows Defender. These programs are known to run very well with little or no problems. AVG Anti-Spyware used to be Ewido until Grisoft bought them out. Ewido and AVG AS are very heavy resource hogs.

When you do all of this, find and install the best optimizer program available, CCleaner, and run the cleaner part then run the "Issues" part. Don't change anything from default, just run it how it is and also select "Yes" when it asks to save.

Do all this and you should have a great running PC. Please post your results or questions if you have any.

jaz_martin

Spybot is very popular but it detects much less than AVG. I am thinking about uninstalling AVG and just leaving Spybot and mostly doing online scans.

lewislink

I'm starting to remember how my PCs were doing when I had Ewido/AVG AS. As much as I can remember they seemed to be doing just what yours is doing.

Although Ewido/AVG did have good detection capabilities, it was not worth using because of system problems like you are experiencing.

With the combined force of all of those AS programs I listed, You should be able to detect and neutralize any threats.

Believe me about CCleaner, it is a free and small program but very valuable in what it does to help a PC run better. If you do decide to use it, run the "Issues" part as many times as needed to clear any remaining issues. Save each time by adding a ".1" or ".2" and so on to the subsequent saves of first save of each series of runs.

jaz_martin

let us see if now i can attach files?

Ok, its letting me upload files. Maybe they could help.

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