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    Unhappy My PC is really sluggish...

    After a recent re-installing of WinXP, my PCs performance is terrible.

    It's fine when running programs, but it takes forever to do anything. It's just taken me 8 minutes to start up a MPEG-2 file in WMP. The computer didn't hang though, I spent the time reading posts here .

    Other examples include taking around 5 mins to load IE or Firefox, 3 minutes to start X3: Reunion and by far the biggest offender is Windows Media Player, which takes anything from 2 to 20 minutes to start playing a vid.

    This does not affect performance while you run things though. Videos play fine. IE and Firefox load pages at a decent speed (does struggle when you open new tabs sometimes). X3 runs beautifully. Football Manager runs quite well too.

    As I say, this is after a recent re-install. The performance wasn't this bad with the previous 1 year old installation. I don't have any new and unusual background tasks (other than Creative X-Fi software, but the problems were occuring before I bought the X-Fi).

    Can anyone advise on what I need to look at to sort this out, because it's really getting annoying now. Something must be delaying things in the background. I've run anti-spyware tools, and I'm getting some more to make sure I'm clean.

    Please, someone help me! I don't want to re-install Windows all over again!

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    • IAmATeaf's system
      • Motherboard:
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      • CPU:
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      • Memory:
      • 4 x 2GB Corsair 6400C5DHX XMS2
      • Storage:
      • 2 x 0.5TB 7200.12, 2 x 1.5TB 7200.11
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    Have a look in Event Viewer to see if there are any problems being logged. To get to Event Viewer right-click My Computer then select Manage.

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    Well, apart from hundreds of ESENT messages (which google says are not important), by far the most common is "Windows Search Service", and most of them are 'Error' messages.

    Can anyone shed any light on this? The properties reveals the following information:

    "Unable to initialize the filter host process. Terminating.

    Details: This operation returned because the timeout period expired. (0x800705b4)"

    Does this have something to do with IE7?
    Last edited by Silent Shark; 04-08-2006 at 12:46 AM.

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    Well, no need for help anymore. After a build up of frustration for the past few days, I've just re-re-installed Windows. I'm going to carefully monitor what goes in, in case it happens again.

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