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Applications hesitating and computer running very slow

Hi,

I have a P4, 2.66 GHZ, 1 GB Ram, 25 GB available on the Harddrive.

The computer is running VERY slow. Applications take a long time to load, it takes a long time to switch windows, movements hesitate in games, e-mail is very slow.

This just started a few days ago. The only odd thing that happened was that Norton Anti Virus huing twice during automatic update. We manually updated. I then uninstalled and reinstalled Norton.

I ran adaware, removed 582 instances, ran a full virus scan. - no problems, ran sfc /scannow - no problems.

I do not know what else could be wrong, please help.

Thanks so much for any assistance.

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Thank you all for your assistance. I just wanted to update you. I ran Microsoft's Anti-Spyware and it did find some more! So Thanks very much for that!! Currently I am defragging the machine, so we will see how that does.

I really appreciate all of this help!!

Cathie

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Well, this was my husband's machine I was asking about. Apparently, he has just informed me, he was running an indexing program to track all of his files. He disabled this and the problem is solved.

Motto - When someone tells you they have not changed or installed anything on their machine - Do Not Believe them!

Once again, Thanks for all of your assistance - it will not go to waste.

Cathie