Help poor performance on PC

Rave

ketherin wrote:

When I go to control panel -> system -> device manager -> there's no hard disks tab ? looked under properties of disk drives and get 4 tabs (general,policies,volumes,driver but no mention of current transfer mode in any of them ? )

O.K., I'm on my own computer with admin rights now. It's Control Panel -> System -> Hardware tab -> Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers -> [click on the controller whatever it's called] -> Primary channel tab. There you can see the transfer mode.

ketherin

Rave,
Thanks checked the transfer mode of the hard drive and it is running UDMA mode5'

All,
Then as suggested checked what process were running, and surpise surpise my Mcafee Security center is using uotp 99% of CPU and when I looked at CPU performance its maxed out at 100% all the time.

So I went to msconfig and stopped all Mcafee products starting up and re-booted, got a message on startup that i've changed something and should go back and tick start all services but ignored that to see how it went.
And its running fine now.

So should I uninstall all Mcafee products ? bet I have aggro with them!!

Donnie

Not immediately. Just stop them running at start up for the time being.
Did you have the XP firewall on at the same time?

Try letting them run again. If the problem reoccurs, then disable them and use some of the free alternative products. Zone Alarm etc

boogiemaster

Do this, connect to the net, start run and type in command then in the box type netstat and see how many connection there are?
If there is a lot of connections in the box? someone is using your bandwith for ads

peter_the_piper

I thought I'd try this but the screen flashes with data for 1/2 sec and dissappears, any reason why? On XP
Peter

ketherin

Boogiemaster
Just 1 connection,
and now I've disabled all the Mcafee products from starting everythings fine.

Many thanks to everyone who's helped me out with this problem.