Just wondering if you have any sort of program/start up monitor on your systems (apart from usual things like avast, avg etc)
Anything out of the ordinary? Any tweaks ?
On my 2.4GHZ P4 with 512MB RAM running XP Home SP3 the latest CCleaner comes up instantly for me.
What is the graphics adapter type?
In CCleaner go to Tools then Startup then show the Startup applications.
Just wondering if you have any sort of program/start up monitor on your systems (apart from usual things like avast, avg etc)
Anything out of the ordinary? Any tweaks ?
I do run the SpyBot resident on both machines, but disabling it seems to have no effect. As far as tweaks, I tweak things all the time, I just did one on Vista to get it to work correctly with Samba. I can't think of anything that would have any effect on CCleaner, and I don't think that there are any common tweaks between the systems. The programs the they share (that run resident) are these:
RealVNC
Daemon Tools
SpyBot
Winamp (agent)
XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, Filezilla Server)
BitMeter
That's all I can really think of.
On my 2.4GHZ P4 with 512MB RAM running XP Home SP3 the latest CCleaner comes up instantly for me.
What is the graphics adapter type?
In CCleaner go to Tools then Startup then show the Startup applications.
Both graphics cards are NVIDIA, as listed in my post with my system specs.
Try disabling the running applications one at a time.
I bet in order of probability:
1. TeaTimer
2. RealVNC
3. BitMeter
Try disabling the running applications one at a time.
I bet in order of probability:
1. TeaTimer
2. RealVNC
3. BitMeter
No effect at all, all three have been killed and I still have the same problem....
Do you have the latest NVIDIA drivers installed?
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=78181Noticed that a new driver - 178.13 is now available for download. Thought people might like a heads-up!
Do you have the latest NVIDIA drivers installed?
No, I do not, I have the 176.14 driver on my laptop and the 175.19 driver on my desktop. I will try to update the drivers and see what I can come up with.
Just out of interest is it as slow when you open it in safe mode?
Just out of interest is it as slow when you open it in safe mode?
Haven't tried, I will give it a shot and let you know.
So these are the results of my latest testing and observations:
1) The latest nVidia driver had no effect at all.
2) After a reboot, the problem came right back, taking almost a full 2 minutes to open up CCleaner. I watched it in ProcessExplorer and the funny thing is that it does almost nothing during this time. It's using <4MB of RAM and the CPU usage would VERY occasionally blip to .5% or so during that time but that was all.
3) In safe mode, running as the administrator, it will open almost instantly.
Not really sure that the means other than it must be something that's running and messing with it. The really odd thing is that this just started to happen recently with the newer builds of CCleaner. I am posting my HijackThis log with the hope that maybe that will help shed some light on the problem.
Can you post your hijack this log in the Spyware Hell part of the forum here
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showforum=12
Put in a summary of the post you have just made to help the spyware mod with info.
By the way the slowness didn't coincide with you starting to use IE8 did it?
Also I thought you said you didn't have yahoo toolbar?
BEWLDR32.EXE and WSA32.EXE are highly suspicious:
http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/detail.php?id=4101
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/dange...irWSA32EXE.html
Even more reason to post a log danodemano
BEWLDR32.EXE and WSA32.EXE are highly suspicious:http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/detail.php?id=4101
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/dange...irWSA32EXE.html
LOL, sorry, I should have said something about that. Since that log came from my desktop at work, those are the programs that we use to do key logging on all the systems throughout the network.
hazelnut,
I believe that small remnant (you will notice the "no file") is what was left after I removed the toolbar installed at the factory.
As for IE 8, I don't believe so as I have been using it since the first beta which has been some time now. Though I did recently switch to beta2 of IE8 which could possibly have something to do with it.
I will post in the spyware forum but I would be almost %100 that there is nothing malicious on this systems. It sits behind a firewall, iSensor (thoroughly inspects each packed), and multiple levels of AV scanning.
edit: I have posted on the Spyware Hell forum, post is here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=18037