When typing on the computer...you have to wait

[oldtimetech]

You'll have to excuse me, I don't really know where to put this question.

My significant other's windows XP Pro started this really annoying situation today. Where no matter if you were typing online or working on something in MS Works (which is his preference) you could be typing away and when you looked up..there might only be the first two letters of a whole sentence, a word, numbers.

He has a firewall, Norton Antivirus, Spybot, Adaware and we've run the antivirus, spybot and adaware with it finding nothing. We then booted the machine with Ultimate Boot CD and checked for rootkits, spyware, and antivirus. Checked memory and looked for bad spots on hard drive....on and on. Finally we ran a defrag that went application by application and defragged. Rebooted machine and for probably the better part of two hours had no problems.

Now it has started again.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, I've exhausted google, my software from previous tech time and this is far from being fixed. Thank you!

[thefultonhow]

Moved to the XP forum. What is the CPU usage like when this happens? Also, what kind of computer is it?

[Negeva]

If this is a recent development it might not be malware related but down to a bad program installation. Have you installed any new programs and/or updates lately?

Open task manager and see if any programs are hogging the CPU.

[oldtimetech]

Computer is a Systemax, AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+, 2.5 GB Memory, NVidia GeForce FX 5700.

CPU usage at this point goes up to 100% back down to 2%, back up to 100%...keeps making this square box type usage on the (my significant other calls this canyoning) and we watch this on the system monitor.

Yes, this is a recent development starting in the last week. The newest update was a java update.

When looking at the task manager the CPU is showing 00 in all 40 some processes.

[oldtimetech]

In checking through the taskmanager found that SAVScan.exe is going from 33%, to 66% to 99% and then back again....with the memory consistently raising along with it.

[thefultonhow]

Do you know if it uses a PATA/EIDE hard drive, or a SATA one?

[oldtimetech]

Use's EIDE.

Checked back through Symantec again...they didn't have any answers....so went back to google.

Found that a number of the answers on google had to do with registry problems. So downloaded RegistryBooster 2 and ran it. Found 391 problems, mostly to do with empty files, bad paths and programs no longer on the machine. Had it fix the registry problems after backing the registry up....didn't want it to turn out worse than it already was.

Believe it or not, after fix, deleting or whatever it all did, the machine is now working better and faster than when it was new......thank you for at least listening to me. If I have further problems and this seems to be fix unworks...I will return.

Again, thanks