Re:I figured it out. I was an infection of Blackbox.class trojan infection and a failed uninstall of Norton Systemworks that was hosing my system. Of course, NAV would not have caught the trojan because it was hosed. AVG Antivirus and McAfee confirmed the infection and problem is solved without full computer OS/app rebuild.
Thank you all for your help.
Pradeep
p.s. One benefit, I did a very thorough back of all my data, which I had neglected these past few months.
Re:Link to Mech's Instuctions (http://www.omnicast.net/~tmcfadden/scan.txt)
Re:Not going to hurt, seach for posts by MechBgon and use his McAfee DOS scan utility.
Re:Okay, here's what I have so far: Speedfan read the SMART parameters and it says that my Samsung HDD is fine. Samsung's own diagnostic tools did a thorough surface scan and it says that my drive is 100%. Memtest ran for an hour with no memory problems. Yet I still have slowdowns. One thing I did notice…it only slows down when I run IE and Windows Explorer. Every other program seems to work fine, except IE and Windows Explorer.
I am starting to lean my diagnosis to virus maybe?
Thoughts please,
Pradeep
Re:On another forum, someone suggested I use Speedfan to read and my HDD's S.M.A.R.T. parameters. I did that and it came up normal….all parameters were within acceptable bounds. I have a Samsung Spinpoint SP1213N, so I guess I'll try Samsung' s HDUTIL next and see what that tells me.
Re:1. The HDD is going bad and this is its way of letting me know – but I don't hear any of the telltale signs like clicking noises, etc.
That's my vote bro. What you descibe is a classic symptom of a failing drive. Download the mfg diag program and run it on the drive.
Nice job troubleshooting BTW! :thumbsup:
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