SLOWWW Laptop but great wireless connection...

Well I sorted my wireless network connection but now my laptop is running so slowly it I dunno whats hit it.

The network activity light remains active almost continually from startup and opening MS OUTLOOK etc takes an age and often does not respond after a while.

I dunno what the machine is doing over the network and why this is taking up so much of the machines' resources but its getting rediculous ...

Ran Norton virus scan, ran MS Defender & Registry Cleaner and all found nothing.

Have a HP7300 printer and Netgear SC101 hardwire connected to the WLAN - which seems to work fine. Nothing else is connected to the wireless network. Router is Netgear 834GT.

Any assistance welcome. Noted the Black Viper recommendations and will have a go at them soon. Anything obvious I am overlooking ?

P.S. if I switch the wireless connection off some "not responding " apps unlock and machine runs smoothly - although without internet connection!

go to the command line (start menu -> run -> cmd) and do netstat -a and print what it says here (you can do netstat -a > file.txt if the output is too big for the dos window).

Also, if you open the task manager (ctrl+shift+esc) which process is using the most cpu (under the processes tab)?

CPU processes are not high - but it seems the machine is either wating for or sending stuff over the network that is holding things back ... Network usage is around 10% of capacity - so netwrok capacity is not the performance issue. The system is waiting for a response or something - wierd!

Do you have something like DC++ or bittorrent running? That'll slow down your internet, but it shouldn't slow down your computer.

Something isn't using all your memory/virtual memory is it?

This is what netstat displays and really have no idea what it means ... any thoughts?

What I have noticed is I try and start Outlook and it just hangs ... if I switch off the wireless connection Outlook continues to open normally soon thereafter... wierd.


Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:epmap HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:microsoft-ds HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:2869 HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:1025 HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:1077 HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:1110 HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:netbios-ssn HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:snmp *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:microsoft-ds *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:isakmp *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:1026 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:1039 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:2176 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:4500 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:1838 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:1900 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:2339 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:netbios-ns *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:netbios-dgm *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:1900 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:2376 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:2381 *:*

Rgds Steve.

When I ran it again - after a reboot - (system much more responsive) netstat gave me this

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:epmap HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:microsoft-ds HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:1025 HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:1035 HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:1040 HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:1040 localhost:1051 ESTABLISHED
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:1051 localhost:1040 ESTABLISHED
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:netbios-ssn HOME_LAPTOP:0 LISTENING
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:1029 HP000D9D10B3E7:netbios-ssn ESTABLISHED
TCP HOME_LAPTOP:1052 pop-smtp1-f.bt.mail.vip.ird.yahoo.comop3 ESTABLISHED
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:snmp *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:microsoft-ds *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:isakmp *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:1026 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:1033 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:4500 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:1900 *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:netbios-ns *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:netbios-dgm *:*
UDP HOME_LAPTOP:1900 *:*

hmm... nothing that looks suspect, your computer is just listening on all the usual ports.

I can't think of anything else that'd be causing it. If you plug your laptop into the wired network does it do the same thing?

Will try that next.

In an attempt to resolve the issue last night I resinstalled the SC-101 software and the machine booted fine and outlook openened pretty quickly ... I was too tired to test it further but will check to see if this was the culprit.

I also - contrary to the advice given - had a go at some of the black viper suggested settings ( I did a few at once )

I also scanned my registry and found items listed for programs that have long ago been uninstalled.

I am considering a full rebuild of the machine at mom ...

Rgds Steve.

Machine when wired to the router is much faster - although I have disabled allot of startup progs so now not sure which has caused this ...

I will try and verify tonight - but think I may rebuild anyway.

Rgds Steve