A cry for help

[Kckazdude]

Help me please. My PC is seriously going south on me. I need some direction on which way to go with this. I dont know if it is a hardware or software problem yet. Figure I would start here and let you guys give me a direction.

The problem:
Most notably on web pages, scrolling takes forever. One tick of my scroll wheel will take 3 seconds or more for a web page to refresh in the new position. It also happens when scrolling through Windows Explorer and when I open my Start button > all programs menu. I havent noticed it on much else but I havent tried doing much else program-wise.

I have run many instances of different web based AVs thinking it was a virus. Kasperky online, Trend Micro house call and Dr Web CureIT. All have come back clean so far. Have also run Ad Aware and Spybot S&D with negative results. Tried a HiJack This log on the auto parse page and it also returned clean. What else can I do to find a resolution to this?

The Machine:
Abit NF7
Athlon XP 3000+
Patriot 1GB memory kit
Nividia GeForce 6800GT
Creative Audigy 4
Firepod connected via firewire

Fire the suggestions away.
TIA

 

[hossdaddy]

try cleaning your system with ccleaner get it here www.filehippo.com run the cleaner first, then the registry cleaner, then re-start. Go to control panel->system->advanced system settings->performance and set it best performance.

 

[Kckazdude]

The good news is that the registry cleaner fixed the problem.

The bad news is it screwed up my recording software. Was the reason I stopped using my normal registry cleaner.

 

[Perm]

Why wouldn't you just wipe the OS and start over?

 

[hossdaddy]

re-install that software.