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Greetings, Adam Kessel!

> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Adam Kessel <ajkessel AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> Now I'm really confused.
>>
>> cygwin was very slow -- then I killed Dropbox, and it sped back up.
>> But after a while it reverted to slow again (without Dropbox
>> restarting). I've repeated this behavior with a few other tasks--same
>> thing happened with Google Desktop and Skydrive. I'm not sure it
>> actually matters which task I kill -- but killing them will speed
>> things up for a bit and then it seems to revert to very slow again,
>> even if the tasks aren't restarted.
>>
>> Can anyone offer a way to narrow/isolate the cause here? Is the above
>> behavior consistent with any hypothesis?

> Was running very slowly; just closed Google Chrome and it got fast
> again. Then re-opened Chrome and slow again. So it really doesn't seem
> to matter what program it is.

This suggest that you're looking into wrong direction, and real culprit is
something you didn't caught yet.
Try HijackThis http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/ to see if there's any
suspicious handlers installed in your system.
Or you may send the logfile to me (off-list!) and I'll try to look for clues
myself.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 02.10.2012, <13:53>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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