XP Insane slowdowns - Any ideas?

[metalman]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
It's funny but really, often virusscanners are to blame for excessive slowdowns. Well, I've often experienced by helping people who've bought a pc with pre-installed virusscanners from Norton or McAfee. A lot of pre-installed software is trash anyway, btw.

@Hodgkinson
Its probably your virus scanner.

I got rid of AVG because of excessive slowdown.

Switched to Threatfire Antivirus

[metalman]

Hodgkinson wrote:
So even AVG isn't that good with system resources, then?

Hogged system resources for 10-15 minutes after booting, running scans, and during and after downloads.

[metalman]

@Speelgoedmannetje
I was agreeing with your observation,
I've noticed the same thing.  :-)