Computer stalls, memory?

[halfsoul]

I hope someone can help me. Occassionally my computer will start stalling randomly. By "stalling" I mean that it exibits the following symptoms:
- The mouse cursor jerks around instead of smoothly moving across the screen
- Mouse clicks and key presses are delayed until the "stalling" stops
- The system clock stops ticking until the stalling stops
- All processes are temporarily halted until stalling stops
- Stalling lasts a couple of seconds
- Stalls occur between 10 seconds and 45 seconds apart

The newest discovery I made is that within System Monitor, the stalls seem to coincide with memory page-in and page-out activity. However, it is not because I don't have enough memory - my computer has 256 megs to play with.

Please help! I'll be happy to provide any and all helpful information.

[brad]

What Process are running in the background when this is happening?
What Programs are in your Startup?
Start / Run / Type msinfo32.exe Click "Ok" / Expand "Software Enviroment" / Double Click on "Running Tasks" / Copy and paste list here.
Then Double Click on the "Startup Programs" / Copy and Paste list here.
brad

[halfsoul]

Thanks for looking. I really appreciate the help.

Running Tasks:
Kernel32.dll
MSGSRV32.exe - VxD Message Server
Spool32.exe - Spooler Sub System Process
Mprexe.exe - WIN32 Network Interface Service Provider
Nprotect.exe - Norton Protection Status
MMTASK.TSK - Multimedia background task support
Explorer.exe - Windows Explorer
Taskmon.exe - Task Monitor
Systray.exe - System Tray Applet
Em_exec.exe - Control Center
Wcmdmgr.exe - WildTangent crap to be removed sooner or later
Hotsync.exe - HotSync Manager Application
Mstask.exe - Task Scheduler Engine
Wmiexe.exe - WMI service exe housing
Emule.exe - eMule
Ddhelp.exe - Microsoft DirectX Helper
Msinfo32.exe - MSInfo32

Startup Programs:
HotSync Manager - Handspring (PDA)
run - hpfsched (HP Deskjet)
SoniqueQuickStart - Sonique (mp3 player)
ScanRegistry - scanregw
TaskMonitor - taskmon
SystemTray - SysTray
LoadPowerProfile - Rundll32
NPROTECT - Norton (Machine Run)
CriticalUpdate - wucrtupd
EnsoniqMixer - starter.exe
wcmdmgr - wcmdmgrl
EM_EXEC - Mouse
NPROTECT - Norton (Machine Service)

[brad]

This is a worm: wucrtupd
Follow these instructions:.

These are a problem: Wcmdmgr.exe - WildTangent crap to be removed sooner or later and Emule.exe - eMule

Download and run:

Then:

Download and install . Now Run it.
If you see this in the Log File have HiJack This "Remove/Repair" it.
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [wcmdmgr] C:\WINDOWS\wt\updater\wcmdmgrl.exe -launch

If you need more help post the Log File here.
brad

[halfsoul]

Thanks for your help, Brad. I don't know if the problem is solved, but I did get an aweful lot of spyware removed. If I run into the issue again I'll repost.

Oh yeah, and eMule is P2P software. I just installed it, and I was having these symptoms before, so I don't think eMule is the problem. Why do you say it's bad?

[brad]

Because of it's relationship to spyware. Same deal as Kazaa and many others. The program may be good but it what comes with it that's bad.
Download / Install / Update / and Run .
This will clean any leftover or future Spyware.

[teststrips]

I had a similar problem when i had too much stuff on a single usb port. For some reason it slowed my whole PC down. Simply moving my Logitech Mouseman Wheel to the PS2 port with it's provided adapter fixed my problem.

[HeddaLora]

I also recommend using for catching & removing spyware.

Something else you might try, to help clean up your computer and help it run fast & efficiently, is to delete all your *.tmp files (c:\windows\temp\...), and run .

Hedda Lora