I have invested in other cleaners such as Uniblue, PC Tools and these cost money. I cannot accept your solution. Why CCleaner is so important? I used CCleaner in the past and found it rather defective.
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Windwos XP - System Failure
My Windows is acting very strange such as system failures, long time for software to run. My present system is 1 year old. I have defragged the system, also scans for registry, adware, you name it.
Why Windows is so inefficient and unrealiable OS?
My system:
Windows XP Professional Edition Service Pack 3 build=2600 *
CPUs: 2 Speed=2663
x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz
Physical Memory: 1507 MB free of 3071 MB
Paging Memory: 3478 MB free of 4956 MB
Virtual Memory: 1966 MB free of 2047 MB
IE version: 8.0.6001.18702
Media Player version: 11.0.5721.5145
Musicnotes mncmp_wm9.dll version: 1.0.1.0
comctl32.dll version: 5.82.2900.5512
Fonts: 1675 Font families installed
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Mate, there is no way I'd know your history just to find out that you found Ccleaner defective in past, alright?
Get this right -> I am only trying to help you for the question you posted.
You don't want to try it out, fine by me but don't post rude as if I owe you my life!
Good luck.
Cheers,
rsivanandan
You are probably still having undetected malware issues.
Scan for malware again but do it this way:
Go into Safe Mode.
Then go to this website and download these programs:
MalwareBytes Anti Malware.... http://www.malwarebytes.or
and/or SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispywar
Make sure you update to the latest versions.
Once downloaded (you may need to rename MalwareBytes, Combofix or other tools before saving their files to the desktop as Malware can recognize the name and block them unless renamed)
While still in Safe Mode, Go to Start-Run and type:
Msconfig
Once in the application, go to the services tab and "hide all Microsoft services" select the remaining and disable". Then go to the Startup Tab and disable all entries.
Reboot.
After the system boots it will give you a warning regarding the changes made by msconfig. Select "Do not warn me again".
Now you can run the anti Malware applications recommended above.
Your next step, after making sure it's clean from malware, check your host file to make sure that it has not been changed to unwanted settings.This file is located in C:\Windows\System32\driver
After doing the above...to test your OS's critical files, from the command prompt type:
sfc /scannow (notice the space between the c and the /)
This will verify the integrity of your essential OS files and than none is missing. For more info: http://support.microsoft.c
Lastly.... to verify that non of your drivers are damaged, run the verify.exe as indicated in http://support.microsoft.c
All the above software is free..
Next, after making sure your system is clean, lets run some tests in order: (some of these test may have already been suggested to you above but it won't hurt if you run them in order, otherwise, you might think it's out of the way but we might be missing the cause. (These tests are assuming that you have already run some kind of antivirus checks and/or antimalware)
First test: TCP/IP Repair (this will NOT damage anything on your computer)
type from the command prompt:
netsh winsock reset
Don't reboot yet.
Second Test: Disable all 3rd Party Services and Startup Items.
Go to WindowsKey-R and run msconfig
Hide all Microsoft Services and disable all the non Microsoft Services remaining.
Do the same and disable all the startup items. Close.
Now Reboot the computer...if your TCP/IP has any corruption...this will fix it.
We are still not sure if it is one of the 3rd party services we disabled before or one of the startup items so we need to do the Third Tests.
Third Test: Re-enabling by groups.
Now that the 3rd party applications are out of the way...try the machine.... if it now works fast we know it is either that we just fixed the TCP/IP or one of either the services or the startup items we disabled.....
So Next ..... enable the non Microsoft services by halfs.... first one half...test ... if it works, we know that the problem might be in the other half.....if it doesn't...we know that the problem is contained in the half we just enabled..... keep doing this with the services and the do the same with the startup items...... this will allow you to isolate what service or startup item is creating the problem.....
Fourth Test: Memory and Hard Drive Tests
1.Check DMA: Make sure you check the hard drive is running in DMA and not reverted to PIO .See instructions here: http://winhlp.com/node/10
2.If all the above fail.... you will need to run some memory tests http://www.memtest86.com
3.Here is a list of hard drive tests you can get depending on the manufacturer of your hard drive (these are usually very good):
Fujitsu http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.co
IBM and Hitachi http://www.hgst.com/hdd/su
Maxtor/Quantum http://www.maxtor.com/en/s
Samsung http://www.samsungelectron
Seagate http://www.seagate.com/sup
Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/dow
Spinrite is not brand specific but it is also very good.... http://grc.com/spinrite.ht
I have installed the malware program and found 3 files contaminated.
My problems started from:
check your host file to make sure that it has not been changed to unwanted settings.This file is located in C:\Windows\System32\driver
s\etc (ask me if you are unsure or better yet copy and post the contents)
I have done the sfc /scannow but then I go to Accessories/Command Prompt/ right click I choose Administrator then a error pops up (see attached file).
Now I am stuck. Cannot proceed.
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Error
Yes... you should not proceed with SFC until you remove all traces of malware.
Your host file is located on your drive C:\windows\system32\driver
This file should only have one entry at this time:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Open it with notepad and edit it. You can block any ohter entries by placing a # at the begining of the line.
As for the error you are getting with the SFC it is probable that when you went into msconfig and disabled the services, you did not click on "Hide all Microsoft Services" and that these are now disabled.
Go back into msconfig, go to the services tab and enable all services.
Then try to run SFC again. (this is of course, after you finish with the hosts file and are sure you do not have any more malware).
Ok....using notepad, create a file on your desktop and call it hosts (make sure it doesn't have the .txt extension at the end (you can see the extensions of the files by double clicking on "My Computer" and selecting "Tools" and "Folder Options" and de-selecting "Hide Extensions of Known File Types" (see attached screenshot).
type this line in the notepad file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Save as hosts on your desktop.
Now copy the file to C:\windows\system32\driver
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Ah.... ok..... you may need to "slipstream" a copy of your XP Pro disc and add SP3 to it. There is a product called n-lite which very easily will allow you to create a slipstreamed copy of your XP Pro disc. Download from http://www.nliteos.com/
You
Here is a small tutorial on how to use it:
http://teamtutorials.co
I am stuck.
I have installed nLite and when it is trying to find the SP3 pack, I do not have it. I tried to download SP3 from Microsoft but the stand alone version is only available under subscription.
??????????
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nLire
I think .. you will need to download this one as well...... it says Vista but below it says that it works with XP Sp2.....
If I'm not mistaken I believe that you will only need one of the files that come with this download.... I don't remember the name but n-lite will ask you for it and you will find this file in the folder created from the above WAIK installation (you just copy and paste it to the n-lite folder in Program Files (if it doesn't do it automatically for you).
So .... how is it going? To summarize, we removed the viruses, recreated the hosts file and are now veryfing the OS files to make sure everything is in place, not corrupt and no missing critical files..
Lastly .... to speed it up a bit.... do not forget
Go to start-run and type: cleanmgr.exe
After this finishes and you clean all the clutter .....
Go to start-run and type: Dfrg.msc and defragment your hard drives.
That's it. We've done everything you can do to insure that your system is optimal short of running 3rd party applications to enhance performance (you had mentioned that you have tried other performance enhancing apps and you were not happy - the ones you were using are very good but they all have problems when your computer has viruses and malware).
At this point:
1.we removed the viruses/malwares
2. Recreated the missing hosts file
3. Slipstreamed you XP Pro CD and made a new XP Pro SP3 CD disc.
4. Verified the existence and replaced any critical OS file that could have been damaged.
5. We've cleaned out all your temporary files from the computer with cleanmgr.exe .
6. We've defragmented.
The only additional service you could do to this computer is to download a trial copy (you get a 30 days fully functional version) of TuneUp Utilities 2009 from http://www.tune-up.com/pro
Note: Hold on to and label properly your newly created XP-Pro SP3 disc. It will prove useful for any future repairs and it is now your current XP Pro OS disc. Your original one (because it doesn't have SP3 is outdated and should not be used anymore for anything other that slipstreaming).
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by: rsivanandanPosted on 2009-10-19 at 08:14:21ID: 25605896
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Follow these and with those tools itself, don't go for alternatives.
Cheers,
rsivanandan