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darwinian2:
Thanks for the suggestions.  I've been using Avast as my antivirus program for several years.  More recently, AOL convinced me to subscribe to their "Superantispyware" program, but I started using this one well before the problem with the Windows Repair Tool began.  Nevertheless, as a test, I turned off both of these programs in order to determine whether they might be interfering with the Repair Tool.  The result was always the same--no transition from the initial file scan to the repair page.  In addition, I tried deleting and reinstalling the Windows Repair Tool, also to no avail.     

Boggin:
In Safe Mode with Networking all 3rd party programs are isolated, so they wouldn't have been the cause of the repair program not working, but if there was a problem with Avast when it is updating then that could cause sluggishness.

Were you able to find what was hogging the computer's resources and causing the sluggishness ?

darwinian2:
Google Chrome and Avast are using most of the resources.  However, Internet Explorer, which I no longer use, is also high on the list.  I'm wondering whether I can click on "End Process" for Internet Explorer without interfering with the other programs.  As you noted, Avast updates could also be slowing things down.   

Boggin:
I looked up on Google about Chrome and XP and it advised using no later than v49 on XP as from v50 Chrome stopped supporting XP.

While I don't know if it's the same for XP but in Programs and Features you can select Turn Windows features on or off where you can uncheck the box for IE, but as you aren't using IE then I wonder what it's doing to be using up your resources.

darwinian2:
I'm using the last version of Google Chrome for Windows XP before it was no longer supported.  The concern about turning off Internet Explorer entirely is related to the possibility of shared files.  Since the computer always seemed to function better after running the Windows Repair Tool from Tweaking.com, I always assumed that any such issues were somehow addressed.

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