Need advice for best approach for root cause analysis

[Greersome]

I'm hoping someone here can help guide me in my search for the root
cause of a chronic windows XP problem I have.

Periodically after powering up after hibernation, my laptop becomes so
sluggish that even running diagnostic tools is painfully time
consuming.

I imagine that some application somewhere is hogging some resource,
but all my efforts to investigate have been fruitless. I've looked at
the event logging for tell tale signs or trends I can investigate.
I've used an application called Process Explorer to try to see what
app is causing the problem, I've tried using task manager to see which
app/process is using too much memory or cpu resources.

Nothing seems to stand out as a problem.

Can anyone recommend a course of action, diagnostic tool, or any other
method I could use to find the root cause of these annoying and
frustrating performance problems?

Thanks,
J

 

[needlove]

First i would do an online virus scan here:
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym I think
thats the right URL...if your clean then try Start> run> type "msconfig" w/o
quotes. choose the startup tab and uncheck one of the first items that
appears suspicious. Retry comming out of hibernation. Msconfig can be used
to drill down to a startup problem. The key is to reboot and retry after
every change made. Or you can disable everything and add it back one by one
rebooting each time...

 

[bojimbo26@aol.com]

When you reply to message , can you *add in * the original message and
any replies , as only your reply is being shown . Don`t know who you
are replying to .
Thanks .


On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 14:23:54 -0700, "needlove" <nonuthead@here.ussr>
wrote:

>First i would do an online virus scan here:
>http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym I think
>thats the right URL...if your clean then try Start> run> type "msconfig" w/o
>quotes. choose the startup tab and uncheck one of the first items that
>appears suspicious. Retry comming out of hibernation. Msconfig can be used
>to drill down to a startup problem. The key is to reboot and retry after
>every change made. Or you can disable everything and add it back one by one
>rebooting each time...
>

 

[Unknown]

Have you run Disk Cleanup and then a defrag?
"Greersome" <joseph.greer@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:7c0a20a4-12b8-44eb-b32e-ad2fb0966cb7@e1g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> I'm hoping someone here can help guide me in my search for the root
> cause of a chronic windows XP problem I have.
>
> Periodically after powering up after hibernation, my laptop becomes so
> sluggish that even running diagnostic tools is painfully time
> consuming.
>
> I imagine that some application somewhere is hogging some resource,
> but all my efforts to investigate have been fruitless. I've looked at
> the event logging for tell tale signs or trends I can investigate.
> I've used an application called Process Explorer to try to see what
> app is causing the problem, I've tried using task manager to see which
> app/process is using too much memory or cpu resources.
>
> Nothing seems to stand out as a problem.
>
> Can anyone recommend a course of action, diagnostic tool, or any other
> method I could use to find the root cause of these annoying and
> frustrating performance problems?
>
> Thanks,
> J