I've experienced this in the past, but just recently it’s started to become both more frequent and rather annoying. After, say, extracting a big zip file, or maybe handling photos, or a whole variety of other tasks, the system almost, within a matter of seconds, grinds to a virtual halt. For instance, it takes about 30 seconds after clicking the start menu for the menu to appear, and the only way around this is to reboot, after which the systems perks up again.
Looking in the system logs, during this time there’s whole rows of "avgntflt" timeout errors on all the background processes, including explorer.exe. (AntiVir Avira antivirus, no virus detected on full system scans)
The system is a 1Ghz PIII, 768MB RAM, XP SP2 (No internet access, so no other patches).
Now I bet our miggys don’t suffer from this problem ;-) And rebooting should be certainly easier :-)
Ideas?
Thanks,
Hodgkinson.