[dba-Tech] Sloooow pc

No I didn't Lembit. We got a new printer installed on the network so I just 
went ahead and installed the new drivers.


Martin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lembit Soobik" <lembit.soobik at t-online.de>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Sloooow pc


> when you installed the new HP printer driver, did you uninstall the old 
> one
> first?
> I remember there is somewhere on HP I think an istruction to use a 
> specific
> uninstall program to get rid of the old stuff.
> also I remember having had problems with HP printer
>
> Lembit
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Martin Reid" <mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Sloooow pc
>
>
>> Jon
>>
>> I also installed a new HP printer driver before this all started
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jon Tydda" <Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk>
>> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
>> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Sloooow pc
>>
>>
>>> There's nothing hogging resources in task manager. Well, no more than
>>> usual
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> Having checked the system log, there's no red flags, but there are
>>> hundreds
>>> of yellow warnings all saying this:
>>>
>>> "Printer Driver HP LaserJet 2420 PCL 6 for Windows NT x86 Version-3 was
>>> added or updated. Files:- UNIDRV.DLL, UNIDRVUI.DLL, hpc24206.GPD,
>>> UNIDRV.HLP, HPC24X06.GPD, HPZSC042.DTD, HPC24106.GPD, HPC24106.XML,
>>> HPC2410C.INI, HPLJ24X0.CFG, HPC24206.XML, HPC2420C.INI, HPC24306.XML,
>>> HPC24306.GPD, HPC2430C.INI, HPZUI042.DLL, HPZ6R042.DLL, HPZ6M042.GPD,
>>> HPZSM042.GPD, HPZST042.DLL, HPZEV042.DLL, HPZLS042.DLL, HPZSS042.DLL,
>>> HPNRA.EXE, HPBNRAC2.DLL, HPBMINI.DLL, HPCEAC05.HPI, HPBOID.EXE,
>>> HPBPRO.EXE,
>>> HPBOIDPS.DLL, HPBPROPS.DLL, HPBMIAPI.DLL, HPPAPTS0.DLL, HPPASNM0.DLL,
>>> HPPAPML0.DLL, HPZIPM12.EXE, HPZIPT12.DLL, HPZINW12.EXE, HPZIPR12.DLL,
>>> HPZISN12.DLL, HPJCMN2U.DLL, HPJIPX1U.DLL, PCLXL.DLL, PJL.GPD, 
>>> P6DISP.GPD,
>>> PCLXL.GPD, HPCDMC32.DLL, HPBCFGRE.DLL, HPBMMON.DLL, HPDOMON.DLL,
>>> HPBHEALR.DLL, hpzar042.hlp, hpzhc042.hlp, hpzht042.hlp, hpzcs042.hlp,
>>> hpzda042.hlp, hpzen042.hlp, hpzfi042.hlp, hpzfr042.hlp, hpzde042.hlp,
>>> hpzel042.hlp, hpzhe042.hlp, hpzhu042.hlp, hpzit042.hlp, hpzja042.hlp,
>>> hpzko042.hlp, hpzno042.hlp, hpzpl042.hlp, hpzpt042.hlp, hpzru042.hlp,
>>> hpzes042.hlp, hpzsv042.hlp, hpzsk042.hlp, hpzth042.hlp, hpztr042.hlp,
>>> UNIRES.DLL, STDNAMES.GPD."
>>>
>>> I installed a new printer on the pc last week, but it shouldn't keep
>>> doing
>>> this... It's using the latest set of drivers from HP, which I guess I
>>> could
>>> reinstall.
>>>
>>> I can rule MSN messenger out, as it's blocked by the firewall, and I've
>>> set
>>> the group policy on all the PCs to not let it run.
>>>
>>> I'm officially not allowed to use ad-aware as it interferes with a
>>> databse
>>> program we use, where spybot and the microsoft one don't.
>>>
>>> I'll try reinstalling the printer, see if that cures anything.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Erwin Craps - IT Helps [mailto:Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be]
>>> Sent: 08 November 2005 12:49
>>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Sloooow pc
>>>
>>>
>>> Adding memory will not solve this issue.
>>>
>>> Did you check the CPU usage in the task manager?
>>> If its running at 100% what process is generating that usage?
>>>
>>> Did you check the event viewer if a lot of red flags are logged
>>> (application and system log)?
>>>
>>> I recently had a simular problem with same result as you.
>>> I download ad-aware from lavasoft and scanned the computer and he did
>>> found a hijakker software where the MS anty spyware (that was already
>>> long installed and updated) did not recognized it.
>>> After removing this spyware with ad-aware the slowness stopped...
>>>
>>> A previous version of MSN messenger was also buggy, it hung when logging
>>> in and caused my CPU usage to be at 100%. Terminating the process
>>> helped.
>>>
>>>
>>> There can be lots of other stuff that can cause this slowness like the
>>> graphic card driver that is corrupt or has problems.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Erwin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 1:38 PM
>>> To: Dba-Tech (E-mail)
>>> Subject: [dba-Tech] Sloooow pc
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I've got a user here who's always complaining about her pc being slow. I
>>> usually tell her to run disk cleanup and defrag, then restart the pc and
>>> it'll be ok, and usually it is. Yesterday however, I ran them, and it
>>> was still just as slow afterwards, so I threw her off it and hit it with
>>> literally everything - deleted all the temp files that disk cleanup
>>> doesn't remove, ran spybot and microsoft anti-spyware, ran a virus scan,
>>> emptied all the cookies and internet objects out of internet explorer,
>>> updated as much software as I could (windows update is blocked by the
>>> company firewall, yet office update isn't...), rebooted it, ran disk
>>> cleanup again, then defragged it three times.
>>>
>>> It's still running very slowly. When you change sheets in excel it stops
>>> and thinks about it for 10-20 seconds, and browsing on the network is
>>> horrible.
>>> I'm out of ideas... I've looked at the server, there's nothing untoward
>>> going on there that I can see, and that was only restarted itself on
>>> Friday.
>>> I don't think it's a network issue because everyone would be
>>> complaining, wouldn't they? I've certainly not noticed anything slow on
>>> the network unless you're in a folder with 1000+ files.
>>>
>>> The pc in question is a P4 1.7 with 512mb RAM. She's asked for more
>>> memory, but I don't think it's going to help, as the tasks she's asking
>>> it to do are hardly memory intensive.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any thoughts on what it could be, or what I've missed
>>> in terms of scanning?
>>>
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
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