Windows XP REALLY slow

Quote from gnome:

You might want to check the bottom part of the processes page.. below the slider. For what you've shown, nothing is hogging the CPU. Unfortunately, that means the troublemaker is not obvious and you'll likely have to find it by trial and error. And the problem could be due to something CCleaner "cleaned" but should not have. If you get to the point of reinstalling your OS and software, evaluate performance having not used CCleaner... that is, CCleaner should the the last thing you do.... any perhaps not use it at all.
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Agreed.
You may have accidentally deleted an important "DLL" file that the operating system uses and now your registry is not as it was.
 
Quote from yoohoo:

Is you CPU running as normal or is it close to flat out? If it's busy you have a virus AVG has missed.

Also try Security Task Manager (much more detailed than Windows) and check every process running is as you expected. Check especially red flags.

If that doesn't show anything try a different antivirus like Antivir. It might pick up something AVG has missed.
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what is this security task mgr?

how to use it?, get it?
 
You're probably having some kind of software hijacking your computer; it's either a removed spyware, registry cleaner, or it could be any software that can not be removed from the registry after uninstalled. Your option could be to do a new installation and try to keep network disconnected until you need to do updates. Run system restore or better yet use image drives to create a restore points so that you could go back everytime the computer is running slow, this way you will have the computer running fresh every time. If you use the computer for trading I would suggest not to install too many freebies because they are the source of most problems.

sg20
 
i had avg and spybot on mine at the same time a year ago and they were not compatible,use one or the other, went back to original post and saw u were not using spybot, but is is possible 2 others are interfering with each other,try running just one
 
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