Subj : Re: system slowing down. To : August Abolins From : Marty Blankenship Date : Mon Jan 26 2004 04:39 pm |11ÚÄ|03Ä[|15Quoting |12August Abolins |15to |12Marty Blankenship |03]ÄÄùúú |11ÀÄ|03Ä[|15Taken from: |13[Fido] WIN32 Operating Systems |03]Äį AA> Did you mean 12 MEG of space? It could have been, I could have read it wrong. AA> Scandisk ought to be there too. But it should be run when booted to SAFE-M AA> for best performance and results. Not there at all and I even went into add/remove and went to the windows setup tab and it wasn't on the list to install on this WinXP home version. AA> MB> nvsvc32.exe AA> Recommendation : This service is often responsible for various glitches, f AA> significant shutdown delays to excessive memory usage. Disabling it, howev The system does take a long time to shutdown, so this is a definate one to stop. AA> The two instances of svhost.exe could represent a virus. Here is what the AA> table in answersthatwork.com has to say: AA> AA> Svhost Svhost Loader Svhost.exe --- You have a virus which could be AA> any of a number of them, such as : Backdoor.Socksbot, Bat.Boohoo.Worm, AA> W32.Bolgi.Worm, and a few more. Funny that the latest version of McAfee doesn't show any of these when a scan is done. AA> Interesting. You probably have to go into (Control Panel \ Administrati AA> Tools \ Services) to work with them. I'll check there to see what shows up. AA> HOPE this HELPS! Thanks for your help, I'll try your recomendations to see if that will speed it up. The GameMaster BBS Home of Marty's Mercantile, an IGM for L.O.R.D. gamemasterbbs.darktech.org gamemaster.dtdns.net gamemaster.bbs.us Telnet open from 8pm to 6am Monday through Friday, ALL day Saturday and Sunday --- Renegade v01-10.4 DOS * Origin: gamemasterbbs.darktech.org gamemaster.bbs.us (1:2320/303) .