Trasnferring Files?

[SIRCOOKS]

when transferring files lets say between my two internal hds, both 7200 rpm, i have recntly noticed a big slow down, also in my unzipping from lets say winrar or winzip, i downlaoded a vid the other day that was more than a gig, and it took me a half hour to complete the process and put the files where i wanted them.

What im asking is, doses anyone know of or ever heard of any slowdown problem like this, maybe its something i should change in my bios?....is there something in the registry i can correct or upgrade....id like my stuff to really speed up, i remeber when i use to do it in under 5 minutes, all of it, now its taking forever.

[Jayhawk]

SIRCOOKS, it could be almost anything. Here's what I believe is the most likely ASSUMING you have not changed anything hardware-wise. Let me know if you have changed any hardware lately.

1. Spyware / Adware running
2. A virus / trojan / worm
3. Too many prgrams loaded, not enough memory
4. Windows Indexing, Restore function, crowded hard drive, fragmented hard drive.
5. Recent XP upgrades like SP2

[SIRCOOKS]

i haven't defragmented in a while, but that was only like a month ago, i know they say to do it everyt month, but i dont think thats to much of a problem, ill do alot of virus checking andother stuff tonight, holla back with any other suggestions

[Jayhawk]

Usually defrag is not the problem unless you have pretty full hard drives and you are copying large files (especially on a FAT32 file system). Still, it couldn't hurt to check. You could aslo do a ctrl-alt-del and check the running processes sorted by cpu utilization. You could have a renegade process (program, trojan, worm, etc.) stealing cpu cycles. At rest, your system idle process should be running 97 - 99%.

[SIRCOOKS]

ill check that to make sure as well when i get home.