At 10:03 AM 07/04/2006, Rob Finger wrote:
After the reboot the computer still runs very slow. Login from the XP screen takes about 5 to 7 min. After you let it sit for a while then things seem to speed up a little but this is a 3.0 ghz machine. Ram is not a problem but when I watch Task Manager the processor usage runs no lower then 50% and usually peaks about 90% but never drops below that. When looking at the process list the CPU usage does not seem to add up to 100% but I am assuming that it should. In fact the System Idle Process runs anywhere from 50 to 90%. There is nothing I can see that is taking up all this processor time. I have been reading about these rootkit viruses and the thread about malware. Could this be what I am experiencing???
Which Norton are they running? If it's 2005 or 06, then it's (at least partly) the dreaded Norton Slowdown.
T
