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re: Newbie here, i think i need to reformat my hard drive Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 1:12 am Posted by Big John (105 messages posted) Reformating should be a last straw effort. Try running Defrag under "All Programs-Accesories-System Tools". This should help, Good Luck! BJ On Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 1:00 am, staying off the sauce wrote: >i'm sure this been up a million times, but... > >my computer is running very slow and for some reason my antivirus (NOD32) won't scan >the operating memory and other files... even in safe mode. > >have read about some diagnostic applications, but in the end, i just my f'ing computer >working again and will reformat it if that's the best solution... > >thanks a million! [Reply or follow-up to this message] I think I need to reformat my hard drive Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 1:40 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO  XP CLEANUP Run through the XP Cleanup routine on the second link above, and if you decide to re-install look through the items on the XP Info link. Mac TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH ('NEW' RELATIVITY) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: I think I need to reformat my hard drive Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 5:11 am Posted by Howard Hoyt (4 messages posted) Yep, format is the LAST option. Another possibility is a virus. Experienced users can normally look at their active task list. Possibly your best approach to eliminate this possibility is to download sysclean from trendmicro.com (along with the latest pattern file). In safe mode, run sysclean and it will automatically clean out most infections. Another approach to the same problem is to procure HIJACKTHIS (free) and post the results to one of the forums that do analysis on the processes running on your PC. Another approach would be to click on START/RUN and enter MSCONFIG. Change normal load to DIAGNOSTIC and restart your system with the minimal set of processes. If you see a black and white difference in performance you then need to selectively add programs until you locate the culprit. This latter approach has the advantage of identifying a particular program that may be hogging resources. Good luck, Howard Hoyt On Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 1:40 am, Mac wrote: >XP INFO >href="http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1126542499">XP CLEANUP >Run through the XP Cleanup routine on the second link above, and if you decide to >re-install look through the items on the XP Info link. > Mac > >TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH >('NEW' RELATIVITY) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: I think I need to reformat my hard drive Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 5:52 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO  XP CLEANUP I need to expose another fallacy here. Formatting is the FIRST option when things go wrong IF you have a DRIVE IMAGE to restore with. Electro-Mechanical drive damage and hardware failure aside you can FULLY restore the system in under an hour. If your drive is partitioned and you dual boot the same Operating System (in two different languages) on two separate drive partitions, you can boot to one and restore the other whilst you continue working. Mac TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH ('NEW' RELATIVITY) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum