programs loading slow...

[pik-ard v1.1]

including windows itself.

all of a sudden, it takes windows 4x as long to load as it used to, and programs are loading slower from the HD as well.

cpu usage seems to be at 100% more often, and sometimes (including at the windows welcome screen) the mouse is VERY jerky...

i've defragged, scanned for viruses, adware, all multiple times. (actually, this did help some, i was at windows taking like 5 minutes to load, now im down to 2, but it used to be 30 seconds flat)

i ran western digitals "quick test" from their floppy drive, found no errors, so i doubt its the HD itself.

anything else i can do other then reinstall windows?

EDIT: oh, and forget about music, even from online radio stations, not just music i have on my hard drive.

[KoolDrew]

It definitely sounds like some sort of Malware. Check this out:
http://www.schadentech.com/Malware/spyware.htm

You can go to http://hijackthis.de and paste your hijackthis log.

[CHEMICAL]

did you check to see if your hard drive is on DMA instead of PIO

[pik-ard v1.1]

hmm, seems to be in PIO mode...

EDIT: thank you so freakin much chemical... everything is back to normal now

[i found nemo]

how'd it swithc into pio? did you accidentaly do it in bios???

[fastvfr]

He would have had to.