Processes won't end

First and foremost, I'm new to this stuff and while I understand the basics feel free to talk down to me.

My computer has been runnning really slow lately. I assume it's because there are to many processes running in the background. With most of them I don't know which ones to close and which are essential, but the ones I do recognize and try to close simply won't. I pull open the windows task manager and click a process and tell it to end tree but it keeps on running.

Rebooting my computer takes roughly 15 minutes and requires me to manually stop processes DVDCheck, sgtray, and CCAPP. When windows finally does reboot it is still slow if I open a program the process will continue to run even after the program is ended. Further many programs freeze up and stop responding. Also my event viewer has 30-40 different errors and 40-50 different warnings.

Anyone have a suggestion?

 

I'd like to see those errors in your event viewer. Also, have you tried process explorer by sysinternal? to help kill those processes. If THAT doesn't kill it, then something is definately fubar.

Process Explorer v8.6

 

I downloaded that program... it's just like windows task manager and looks like it would be really helpful if I knew what I was doing. At any rate, it isn't able to terminate most processes I've been having trouble with once the program freezes, and programs are still freezing up.

Some of the errors are:


Hanging application game.exe, version 1.0.0.1, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.
0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 676e6148
0010: 61672020 652e656d 31206578 302e302e
0020: 6920312e 7568206e 7061676e 2e302070
0030: 2e302e30 74612030 66666f20 20746573
0040: 30303030 30303030

Fault bucket 01945281.
0000: 6b637542 203a7465 34393130 31383235
0010: 0a0d

The Windows Security Center Service was unable to establish event queries with WMI to monitor third party AntiVirus and Firewall.
0000: 80004002

Faulting application wmplayer.exe, version 10.0.0.3646, faulting module iccvid.dll, version 1.10.0.26, fault address 0x000065e2.
0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 6c696146
0010: 20657275 706d7720 6579616c 78652e72
0020: 30312065 302e302e 3436332e 6e692036
0030: 63636920 2e646976 206c6c64 30312e31
0040: 322e302e 74612036 66666f20 20746573
0050: 30303030 32653536 0a0d

Hanging application POWERPNT.EXE, version 10.0.6501.0, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.
0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 676e6148
0010: 4f502020 50524557 452e544e 31204558
0020: 2e302e30 31303536 6920302e 7568206e
0030: 7061676e 2e302070 2e302e30 74612030
0040: 66666f20 20746573 30303030 30303030

Hanging application NMain.exe, version 103.0.2.10, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang
0010: 20 20 4e 4d 61 69 6e 2e NMain.

The device, \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block.
0000: 00680003 00b80001 00000000 c0040007
0010: 00000100 c000009c 00000000 00000000
0020: 18d5c800 00000000 0001ad04 00000000
0030: ffffffff 00000001 c4000040 00000002
0040: 120a2000 40000248 00000000 0000000a
0050: 00000000 82ffd948 00000000 83133af0
0060: 00000002 00031ab9 03000028 0000b91a
0070: 0000000c 00000000 00030070 12000000
0080: 00000000 00000011 00000000 00000000



Some of the warnings are:

Windows saved user MIKE\Mike registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use. This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

Windows cannot unload your classes registry file - it is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.

Detection of product '{43DCF766-6838-4F9A-8C91-D92DA586DFA7}', feature 'DefaultFeature', component '{9F47ECA8-A740-EC80-1AE2-C48048D83AA4}' failed. The resource 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Journal Viewer\' does not exist.

The time service has not been able to synchronize the system time for 49152 seconds because none of the time providers has been able to provide a usable time stamp. The system clock is unsynchronized.

An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation.
0000: 00680003 00b80001 00000000 80040033
0010: 0000012d c0000013 00000000 00000000
0020: 868ea000 00000001 00a0aae2 00000000
0030: ffffffff 00000001 c4000040 00000002
0040: 120a2000 40000248 00000000 0000000a
0050: 00000000 8304d6f8 00000000 830616b0
0060: 00000002 0030d1d4 30000028 0000d4d1
0070: 00000016 00000000 00020070 12000000
0080: 00000000 0000003a 00000000 00000000


So... um... ya. Fix it please. )

 

You can always try using enditall 2, with that you can close, or kill programs that arent needed. also ends processes that arent essential. Works good.
This may help speed you up untill you figure out whats up with those errors

 

by chance, do you have a CD in your cd-rom drive ALL the time?

 

All the time? No... most of the time? Yeah... is this a problem? Because if this was the root of all my problems I'm gonna need someone to smack me upside the head.

 

An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation.
0000: 00680003 00b80001 00000000 80040033
0010: 0000012d c0000013 00000000 00000000
0020: 868ea000 00000001 00a0aae2 00000000
0030: ffffffff 00000001 c4000040 00000002
0040: 120a2000 40000248 00000000 0000000a
0050: 00000000 8304d6f8 00000000 830616b0
0060: 00000002 0030d1d4 30000028 0000d4d1
0070: 00000016 00000000 00020070 12000000
0080: 00000000 0000003a 00000000 00000000

more often than not, if you get this error, your system may freeze.

 

Removing CDs from my drive doesn't speed up my shutdown or keep alternate programs for freezing or allow me to turn off processes, but I will keep my CDs out in the future. Any more suggestions please?

 

First thing I would do is to stop all programs loading at startup. The only progs I load at start are an AV prog, my personal diary and systray. From there I control what I want to use including logging on to the net with either Opera7 or Firefox. Could be you also have a helluva lot of spyware looking in at startup.
Hope this helps
Robert

 

How do I go about stopping programs from loading at startup? And which ones should I use? And how do I know which ones I need? Would it help to see my Hijack This file? Thanx for the help!

 

I use "Start Up Control Panel 2.8" by Mike Lin

I use it on WIN ME, works fine

I think I got it here at MG

It's accessed thru the control panel after installing

 

The problem is alot worse than I thought. I tried to instal Spybot S & D and some other programs and nothing will instal. As they are installing they freeze up and just sit there. I can't close these frozen processes with either Process Explorer or Windows Task Manager.

 

Control+Alt+Delete>End Task isnt working either?

 

Ctrl + Alt + Delete and ending processes doesn't work. That's the Windows Task Manager that I mention.

 

Youve probably tried this, but is your START UP folder in Start>all programs startup empty?

 

Not empty. It has microsoft office.

 

well deleting that would chop some time, unless thats all you use. you can always start it up from start menu when you need it right.

i mentioned that enditall 2 yesterday too, its about 800kb (zipped) i think it would help your frustration lots. unfortunately it needs to be installed and you mentioned that you cant install anything??
another handy tool is regseeker, this does not need to be installed, and finds lots, and lots of garbage, run that a few times and you may see some improvement on speed.

 

Without any knowledge of your system I am still of the view that you are
a. Loading too much at startup. MS Office alone puts a huge draw on resources at startup. Did you try to reduce everything to the absolute minimum at startup. To do this go to RUN and type msconfig click on the startup tab and untick everthing except systray and your AV. (I assume you are running XP).
b.Reboot - if the system is still firing up slow with all these warnings then I would be looking for spyware/malware/trojans. To do this go to the spyware forum and carry out all the actions listed at READ ME FIRST http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407.
c. If all the above does'nt solve the problem then I would be looking to do a repair job using the repair facility on the XP CD.
d. If still no resolution I would reformat and start from scratch but others may have a different view.
e. I hope it all turns out well for you.
Robert

 

yeah...like what he said,.....
goodnight all

 

I've already tried looking for spyware/malware/trojans, and I'm going to try to repair with the CD. The problem isn't the start up though... the reboot takes a long time because it takes my computer 15 minutes to shut down... starting it up doesn't take long at all. Does this indicate a different problem?

 

Also I installed a HP DVD Writer (dvd630i) a while back and I was wondering if the background processes DVDTray, DVDCheck and DVDBitSet were critical for it's operation. Anyone know?