[dba-Tech] Sloooow pc

one thing that once messed it up was when I installed an HP printer and 
connected it and turned it on rather than wait until it told me to do so. 
Had to reinstall and still had a lot of problems afterwards.

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 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [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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