Okay, so... I got a nice, new computer this Christmas, and it's all been running great until about now. Here're the specs on it to start: 3.20 GHz Intel Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading 16 KB primary memory cache 2048 KB secondary memory cache 300.06 GB Usable Hard Drive Capacity 144.64 GB Hard Drive Free Space _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG [CD-ROM drive] AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive] HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8526B [CD-ROM drive] <-- Virtual drive created by Alcohol 120% ST3300631AS [Hard drive] (300.07 GB) -- drive 0 4x 512 MB DDR2 RAM NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS 256 MB Board: Intel Corporation D945PVS AAC98862-205 Serial Number: BTVS53600636 Bus Clock: 200 MHz BIOS: Intel Corp. SN94510J.86A.0044.2005.0711.1450 07/11/2005 I'm running Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2, fully up-to-date. Here's a little bit of background on the programs that get run on the computer on a daily basis: KidsWatch Time Control: Installed by my father to try to restrict the length of time used on the computer; causes automatic logouts after certain times or certain lengths of time logged in each week. Has issues with changing the system clock and not allowing it to be changed back. Due to the altered system date, I am unable to complete Windows Genuine Advantage verification. DiskKeeper Disk Defragmenter: Set to defragment the hard drive every night; and it seems to be doing its job, from what I've seen. Program says it'll run every 2 hours from 10 PM to 4 AM every night. Job reports say it's been running, but I'm almost always logged out during those times due to KidsWatch, so I'm not exactly sure how it is. Spyware Doctor: Used to protect against spyware because my program of choice, Ad-Aware, has been blocked by my father through KidsWatch. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition: Self-explanatory Windows Defender: Also self-explanatory Okay, anyway, to the problem: I just got out of a spell where the computer was plagued by the VirtuMonde adware family. Not fun, but I got rid of it. After the infection was over, I began seeing some very limited-scope slowdown. After an automatic logout by KidsWatch, or a manual logout by myself, trying to click on my username to enter my password on the Windows login screen takes about 45 seconds to highlight my name, and another fifteen to display the password I'm typing. Loading my personal setting takes several minutes, whereas before this it would take not more than ten seconds to run the entire process. A login after a reboot will yield a full-speed login screen, but still an extended loadtime. Second issue, and the only other place I've found slowdowns: When I am trying to run a bittorrent-based program, the software will freeze and slowdown exceptionally; it is impossible to monitor the file transfers. Twice since then has Windows said it needs to increase the size of my virtual page file, though I can't figure out why. I have no memory leaking; I'll watch Task Manager and the biggest memory hog is Firefox, who is right now using 84,696 K, but nothing's using any CPU time. The highest CPU usage I usually get is while running World of Warcraft, which will use about 40-45% of the CPU, and probably 380,000K memory at any given time. But it performs like so: I get upwards of 60- to 80-frames-per-second while playing. No slowdowns. I've looked over my running processes half a dozen times, and I can't see anything there that shouldn't be there. I've got virus and spyware scans set to run when I can. My friend suggested it may possibly be a hard-drive issue, but I ran chkdsk and it didn't find anything wrong, and my disk defragmenter shows it running at near-optimal performance. Any ideas? I know this is an enormous wall of text, but I tried to get all relevant information I could think of out there so you could look at it. Thanks --BlackDragonHunt EDIT: Updated the World of Warcraft running info: I had it written down from memory, and I got some numbers a bit mixed up; this is from it running right now.
Everything seems okay on startup, except there's one thing I can't locate, or can't find any info on: CMIRMR~1 c:\WINDOWS\CMIRMR~1.EXE I can't find the listed executable file in my Windows folder, nor can I find any information on it on Sysinfo, or a regular Google search. --BlackDragonHunt
There is some information regarding this here. However I would strongly advise that you download Hijack This available here, follow the instructions and post the resulting log to, if this forum deals with HJT, here, or a suitable arena that is capable of dealing with the log.
Alright; I got HijackThis, and I ran a scan. A cursory glance on my own has me thinking everything looks okay, but I'm not entirely sure on everything. Before I go wandering elsewhere and throwing my log there, I'd like to ask if there's anyone here who's knowledgable about these things and would like me to post it here. --BlackDragonHunt
That would be the best Dragon, and should not this excellent forum be able to deal with said log, then you can obviously show it to the cats at Merijn.
There's my log, if anyone can do anything with it, I'd love to get some help with this. Thanks again, --BlackDragonHunt
I can't comment on the rest of the log but you have LimeWire in there which is a killer, I would not be surprised if your troubles aren't down to that. You have 2 or 3 missing files also but I'll leave it to the experts.
If you all think LimeWire might be an issue, I'll gladly get rid of it. More a convenience than anything. I keep it pretty well monitored, though. --BlackDragonHunt
I very much doubt that LimeWire will even have an Uninstall aspect but you can try. Even if you can there will still be aspects of it buried deep in the Registry.
