Re: Xp PC Soooo SLOOOW!!

"G" <graham.me(nospam)@btinternet.com> wrote:


"John Doe" <jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"G" <graham.me(nospam)@btinternet.com> wrote:

It loads to the login window as normal but after that when I
select my icon it takes about 5 mins to load my desktop and icons.
Anything I open after that takes ages to load, but the funny
thing is once I have opened it, say IE for example, I can open it
again and it loads quickly, almost as if once it is cached it is
ok.

A lot of hard drive activity?
Check your swap file.

Not sure how to do this?

Find My Computer
Right-click -- Properties -- Advanced -- Performance -- Settings --
Advanced -- Virtual Memory -- Total paging file size for all drives
<-- should be at least 2048 MB



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