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Hard Faults/min high??

My Vista Business system is very slow. I have a dual core 2.66 GHz 2GB system (new purchase from DELL) and something must be wrong.

Looking at the resource overview, I can see that svchost is initially causing > 8,000 hard faults per minute and after idling for 30 minutes of so this goes down to 4,000 hard faults per minute.

Should I be alarmed, or is that reasonable?
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Things have gone from bad to worse. I have several blue screens a day now. ieuser.exe is complaining that I have corrupt files. I can't run chkdsk in the scheduler, because it says "cannot check volume for direct access".  I'm trying to book it in command mode, but even that's been hanging for the last 1/2 hour.

I don't believe my problems are malware-related, because the only software I've installed is trusted. I guess it could be hardware-related, because it is a new PC (purchased January) and it was purchased from DELL as an XP PC. I've installed Vista from the MSDN disks.
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....specifically the hang is on crcdisk.sys
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Hmm, I gather crcdisk.sys is the last driver to load anyhow, so that's probably not a smoking gun
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Ref that link, zielke51, I wasn't getting excessive CPU usage showing. It was sluggish, but the only thing that showed up as possibly significant was the hard fault count.

1 1/2 hours into the command mode hang (it says "Please wait"), and I'm wondering if I should reboot or if it is quietly doing great things with chkdsk. I'll leave it for a few more hours, I guess, but it would have been nice to see some evidence of activity. The CPU fan is too noisy and/or the disk is too quiet to know if there is anything going on.
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Looks like \Users\Rob Staveley\AppData\Microsoft\Windows is corrupt. It shows up as an empty directory at the cmd.exe prompt and even doing a directory listing in it results in a warning saying that it is corrupt and that I should run chkdsk, but of course I can't run chkdsk, because it says "cannot check volume for direct access". I can't get it to go back to a restore point because its says that AppData\Microsoft\Windows is corrupt. Bah. Not sure how to go forward with this!
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I'll carry this on in a new thread, this has drifted from the original subject.
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