Re: Speeding up slow XP PCs - suggested remedies when you've tried the obvious
- From: The Wanderer <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:31:59 +0000
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:21:22 -0000, Mortimer wrote:
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For example I'm trying to speed up a customer's PC at the moment.
The symptom is very long boot times (about 1 minute each on the Windows logo
and the Welcome screens, and a total of 5 minutes before clicking an icon on
the desktop will actually run a program. New programs (or even Control
Panel) take a minute or so to begin after clicking on icons (with lots of
disk thrashing) and repainting of the screen when a window is moved to
reveal another one can take 30 seconds.
Task Manager says there's no excessive CPU usage (normally about 98% idle
process) and the Available memory is around 100 MB ("low memory" disk
thrashing usually happens when you get down to 10 MB or less).
Try using SysInternal's Process Explorer, instead of task manager.
Available these days on the M$ web site. It replaces task manager, and is
much more useful.
There are no
unwanted programs in Add/Remove Programs. I can't see any unnecessary
Startup and HKCU/HKLM | Run entries. AdAware 2007 and Spybot 1.5 now give a
clean bill of health (although they initially removed a lot of crap!). The
disk now has 0% file and volume fragmentation (originally 36% fragmented!).
I have a similar problem. Whilst I have auto-updates set to occur at a time
of my choosing, usually in the small hours, Process Explorer seems to
suggest that auto-update executes regardless at boot up. My PC usually
takes two or three minutes before it settles down.
--
the dot wanderer at tesco dot net
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