Windows XP - Eventual jumpiness

[warz]

I just installed Windows XP, for the second or third time on a 1.3 GHz, 384 MB of RAM computer. I've reinstalled XP several times because each time I run into this problem. After about a good hour or so, my computer starts to slow down and everything gets real jumpy. It acts like I'm low on memory. Last night I rebooted, and immediatly turned on winamp, after an hour or so, winamp started to run sluggish - this shouldn't happen.  

Anyone experience this before? Solutions?

[j0k3r]

Sounds like it is memory... Maybe memory leak?

[Eibro]

Have you opened up your task manager and had a look at what's eating CPU time/Memory?

[warz]

Nothing appears to be eating too much. Even while my computer is running slow nothing seems to be using a lot of memory.

[drivehappy]

Full system specs would be helpful in finding the problem. Including free harddisk space. Have you updated all of your drivers and updated Windows? And also check your performance tab when it's running slow and see if the CPU is maxed out.

[warz]

Windows XP Home Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 1.

Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.3GHz, 384 MB RAM.

File System: NTFS
Free Space: 67.9 GB
Total Size: 74.5 GB

[edit]: Yes, when it gets slugish, my CPU Usage it at 100%! Ugh. DLLHOST.EXE was using a lot of memory, and I killed it, and viola, CPU usage goes to 1%.

What's DLLHOST.EXE used for? COM objects/dll's or something similar?

[iago]

That doesn't run on my computer..

I'd suggest looking it up on google; unfortunately, I can't connect to google...

[K]

Perhaps it's this?

[warz]

That's possible, except it was a constant problem throughout 3 different installs of windows xp. I just killed the dllhost.exe process, and there hasn't been any problems. *shrug*

[Alkoholik]

Have you downloaded and installed all of the XP updates?  I'd put money on it that it is the Welchia virus.  If you have downloaded/installed your updates, you may have gotten infected before that.

[iago]

Perhaps it's this?

From that site:

There is a legitimate file called Dllhost.exe (about 5-6K) in the System32 directory

[K]

From that site:

There is a legitimate file called Dllhost.exe (about 5-6K) in the System32 directory

the virus installs itself as dllhost.exe and svchost.exe in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\wins\"

[iago]

But everybody has that file, it's no indication of a virus.

[Arta]

dllhost.exe is used for a great many things, iirc.

[Adron]

But everybody has that file, it's no indication of a virus.

If it's in wins, it probably is.