Issues with windows explorer?

[oneano]

I am cleaning up an old system that I have.

WinXP home

768 RAM

Windows explorer acts sluggish.  the flashlight icon appears for about 5 seconds when I open "my computer"

When I move the task manager window over firefox I get the "trails" effect that windows is notorious for and firefox jumps up to using 90% of my system resources!

I have run multiple virus scanners, I have run spy bot and ad aware. I have run 3 separate registry cleaners and defragmented my drives.

Anyone know what could be going on?

[IamError]

Have you ran disc clean up? I would do that as well as the defrag, that you have done.

Usually when i get computers like that i just do a clean install.

[Broni]

If it's some old machine, why not a clean install of Windows?

[oneano]

I did run disc clean up and I didnt have much of a change. Its not that old of a system the XP install is about 12 months old. I dont want to reinstall XP as that isnt really a "fix" nor would I learn anything.




I have included an image so that you can see how the process shoots up when I simply move the task manager around.

a program like firefox takes close to 30 seconds before it opens

I wouldn't think that it is the harddrive.

I have 13.4 gigs of free space and 5.57 gigs used using NTFS file system. I do not have indexing enabled.

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/479/problembl0.jpg

[IamError]

Ok then, what is actually taking up the cpu usage in the processes tab?

[oneano]

Firefox


hmm. . . . Let me completely remove it and reinstall it.


But that still may not solve the issue with windows explorer taking so long to respond.

[oneano]

Same issue after removing Firefox and running 2 registry cleaners (again)


I get the same problem with internet explorer

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/627/problemrs2.jpg