slowdown?

[SIRCOOKS]

I wonder if any of you guys have encountered what im about to say, now i know all the stuff about system processes right and how to slow them down thier priority if needed. But i wanna know if their are programs that we use day to ay out there that may slow down our system performance. ive heard certain configurations cause major slowdowns, even theway you install programs e.g windows updates then codecs, or codecs then windows updates, if they are installed a certain way, they sometimes tend not to agree wit each other. I have had a problem lately with things such as winrar and winzip especially, in them taking almost 20 minutes to unzip, where as before they would take less then 5. Keep i nmind i have apowerfull system of p4 3.0 ghz 1gb ddr 128mb 8x agp graphics card with hyper threading technology, and in the beggining everything was wroking fine, now everything is just slow for me, i wonder what it could be. If you guys have any ideas, such as maybe norton antivirus, certain spyware programs eg. i have spybot and spy sweeper running all the time alongside norton...whatever it is can you guys please give a crack at it...holla back

[prathapml]

If you tell what are the software you have installed on your PC, what OS version, which updates installed, then we can see which of those could throw a spanner in the works.

Otherwise, there are simply far too many apps to list that don't "play nice" with each other, in specific conditions.

[XtremeMaC]

winrar winzip that's very wierd. i think u've another problem in there

what should they have any problems at first place? that's wierd.

i think your system might have slowed down overall.

usually working processes can and will slow down your pc. also startup items slow down the pc a lot. ow and for norton **** sure that u're pc will slow down!.

u can defrag your hdd. and how many programs do u have?

also scan your registry for errors and unwanted entries. delete temp files defrag your reg.

and u said in the beginning it was working fast and now its slow. that's the way it is with windows and lots of programs. 1 method is formatting.. 2nd method is the things i've mentioned above

also clean your prefetch folder.

and for winzip and winrar i still do not think that they can have any problems with working along its not like they use anything same. (like nero and alcohol or daemon tools etc.. they caused problems bc they use similar scsi virtual drivers etc..)