Okay… this is a long one, here I go…
– trying to fix cousin’s computer, it was infested with Trojans, viruses, etc…
– tried a lot of things to clean it up to no avail
– so I decided to do a reinstall, it took over 5 hrs, thought I had installed incorrectly so I did it again… but got same result… computer was still slow after fresh install…
– spoke to Microsoft for about 2 days they were trying to help me with the 100% CPU utilization, finally they recommended I try to reinstall again, so I did, with them on phone, reinstall was taking too long, so they said it was probably issue with hard drive, closed ticket
– I ran the chkdsk, no errors
– I ran the HDD regenerator, found no errors on hard drive…
– The only thing that gave any warnings about hard drive was a program named HD Tune, that showed (05)Reallocated Sector Count and (0A)Spin Retry Count highlighted in yellow…
I’m going crazy here, trying to figure what’s going on….
whelp please!!!
System Info:
Dell Dimension 2400
WinXP Home Edition SP2
Pentium 4 2.66GHz
256 MB of RAM
Seagate HD 80GB