Decently Terrible Performance (Help me?)

DavidE said:

Death1223 said:

Oh, I know why it detected it as a false positive is what I was saying. It hooks onto the program and reads the data. It's definitely not an infected file. I can tell you that much. I did however re-download it cleanly from the official site after the AV deleted it.

You should be able to report a false-positive to the AV vendor so they can fix their definitions if it is a false-positive.

All AVs I've used allow adding files/folders to an exclusion list, so they will not be scanned.

Well it's too late now... and I'm not sitting through that 2 hours again to report the false positive. Hehehe

To make it even easier to see what services are running, click on the Services Status column heading so all running services are sorted together...

Yeah, sorry about that. Probably should've sorted them. The thing is I'm not sure what will basically destroy my system by not running and what won't.

Use this tutorial by Brink to do a clean startup:
Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup

Work through it to try and find the cause of the problem.

DavidE said:

Use this tutorial by Brink to do a clean startup:
Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup

Work through it to try and find the cause of the problem.

This involves a lot of restarting. I'll try to do it later tonight or tomorrow if I can't tonight. Thank you. (Also Brink has a tutorial for like everything.)

Guess i should have noted

The thing is I'm not sure what will basically destroy my system by not running and what won't.

A clean startup will not destroy your system, you can undo any change...
Only you will know if you need/want something to automatically start that most of us here don't need.

I have 1 program I don't want to auto-start, but if it doesn't auto-start I have a few extra clicks to use my HP printer/scanner ...
I never spent the time to find a better solution than to let that "auto-start" (lazy)

Personally i create periodic system backup images so i can recover from "whatever".

Alright. My services currently look like this:


Same start-up time and everything. Nothing changed.

What happens if you disable all those ?

Maybe you should create a system backup image, and then do a clean re-install ?
See if that helps...
If it doesn't, you can restore the backup image.

Here is a tutorial by gregrocker for a clean reinstall
Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7