T42 running very slow or unresponsive?

[lemmerdeur]

My T42 (2373-4WU) 1.8ghz, 1.5GB ram is running very slow and unresponsive at point. I just finished loading the recovery on a new 80 Gig drive last night and then loaded some program. Last night it was working fine. Today, it is an other beast. It took 7 minutes to load windows XP then it is almost not responding to left or righr click of the mouse. When typing, the letters appear like 6-7 second after. When trying to scroll down with the cursor, it doesn't want to move then same 6-7 second delay.
I am running with the AC adapter on.
Could it be my Hard drive? Should I reload the recovery and start over?

[Kyocera]

IF you have any restore points set before you started loading programs you could roll back and see if one of those programs is causing your problem. Most of the time in the past when I have had problems and called tech support they will instruct to set the machine back to factory state then trouble shoot from there.

You could run some tests on your HD to see if it has problems. PC doctor or google Hitachi HD fitness test.

[lemmerdeur]

Is Registry Mechanic from PC Tools a good program to use ?

[AIX]

Have you checked the Event Viewer (Administrative Tools) for error messages?

[sktn77a]

Open Task Manager (processes) and look for a program (eg Norton) taking all you CPU processing power.

[lemmerdeur]

I had to uninstall Norton as I am running McAfee thru AOL. I uninstall from add and remove program and I hope it is all gone.

Open Task Manager (processes) and look for a program (eg Norton) taking all you CPU processing power.

[lemmerdeur]

I didn't check that and I would like to learn how to proceed to check it.

Have you checked the Event Viewer (Administrative Tools) for error messages?

[Kyocera]

control panel > admin tools > event viewer. Look under system and application for red x's - errors and warnings.

Then restore back to factory. And trouble shoot from there.

[lemmerdeur]

I checked all the error and warning, In application, all the error are: could not contact file driver. In system, all the warnings are: Dhcp and all the errors are: McAfee. I didn't restore back to factory as I don't know how.
What should I do now?
Since yesterday, I used Registry mechanic and Diskeeper 8.0 and now Windows is responding normally.
I still would like to remove all errors if possible.
Thank you for your advices and help.

control panel > admin tools > event viewer. Look under system and application for red x's - errors and warnings.

Then restore back to factory. And trouble shoot from there.

[Kyocera]

I didn't restore back to factory as I don't know how.

I just finished loading the recovery on a new 80 Gig drive

The same way you did the 80 gig drive. Do you have recovery CD's. If not see if you can make them using your current factory image.

If you installed the factory image on the 80 gig drive, you turn off your computer, wait a few seconds, turn it back on and during the bios boot press f11 a couple of times (or when prompted to press f11) this will take you into the recovery environment, you can restore from there without CD's.

After you restore to factory, get rid of McAfee, and any of those pre installed programs you know you'll never need. When you get to this point if your machine is running as expected (the rest here is just what I do and has worked over many OS's and years) head to the MS update site, I'd hold off on sp3 and just get critical updates for now. Then get yourself some free AVG. Create a restore point, then start loading your personal programs. *No I have not gone to the Lenovo Update Site Yet* I do that last when everything is working and in place. Then update some of the Lenovo stuff.

[lemmerdeur]

I don't pay for McAfee, it comes with AOL, has anti virus, spam.... and is updated almost daily. Is AVG better?

Then get yourself some free AVG.