Hello,
My now over 1 yr old laptop from dell, inspiron with windows home edition. It seems as I go, it's getting slower, and slower, to the point, it's quite upsetting. I keep noticing when I go to check the processing that the idle speed is very high, especially lately, when it seems to freeze, or not acknowledge any command, but the mouse is able to be scrolled, appearing as if it's not frozen at all.
This is the last kind of laptop dell sold with xp, I am on wireless internet, and also have been having email issues, if I highlight an email for viewing, it doesn't show any other.
Thank you

Oh.. lol.. high idle speed, I mean up to 99%.
Blessings

System Idle Process should be high. That means the cpu is not doing anything. It is idle. If idle time were 50%, then 50% of the cpu is busy. You want a big number for idle time.
That is normal.

I have done a scan disk to get rid of garbage, I did a frag, I did a spy check, and a virus check, any thing I can check as far as freezing and going slow?
I keep a lot of files on my desktop. I'm not a PC pro by any means. My daughter tells me that's a big no no. Is that true?
Thank you and Blessings

Do you have a antviru program. Download and install super anti spyware I bet you find something and do an disc cleanup and a difragma if the speed improves let me know I could recommend some outher things that will increase speed

Annoying isn't it. Windows for you. Whatever it wants to do it will do it, including shutting down when you don't want it to but IT WANTS to install it's update. That errant mouse click just got turned into a yes. Boo, Hiss.

When this happens you;ll notice your disk access light franticly blinking. It's not idle is it?

The weird thing is that an idle process should have a low priority.

Best I can determine, it's windows doing it's indexing operation when IT WANTS to.

You need to lower the priority of the indexing process. I forget it's name and you need the process explorer from sysinternals who now work for Microsoft. It's on micro$oft's website. Reducing the priority makes it bearable.

Very annoying. I haven't tried turning off indexing, but I think if you do, it will go away, but then trying to search for something would be a lost cause.

Yes I have an anti virus, which I had to turn off the fire wall because my internet would not work. I also have a anti spy and have done a disc cleaning and defrag.

KISS,
Yes, I do agree that windows controls your entire PC. I did try to turn off things, like dell access, autobot access, and the PC would not work, so I had to restore. Grrrr