New Updates Slowing Windows XP?

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From: Jason (shift838_at_y---o.com)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:07:07 -0700

It's obvious that many XP users are experiencing dramatic performance
*decreases* since the April 13 wave of critical MS updates. Search this
group alone for "slow" in the subject and you will see an unusual number of
threads about it since April 13. I'm sure Microsoft is aware of the
problems but until they work out a formal solution let's share information
for immediate solutions or workarounds.

A client of mine with a fast desktop called me saying things were slow. I
went there and his XP Pro machine was crawling, particularly on the
network. Tracert took 5 minutes to complete (!) to www.yahoo.com yet nobody
else on his LAN had trouble. No spyware, no fragmentation, no strange event
log errors. I was so perplexed that I assumed it must be a bad network
cable and had him call his network people, but today he tells me even his
non-network programs are crashing or barely running.

Before I go back to help him, I'd like to hear whether anyone has found a
temporary fix. I was thinking about either uninstalling the updates,
running system restore or even installing SP2 RC-1. My client is running
Symantec AntiVirus and I've heard Symantec mentioned before in regard to
slow down, for what that's worth. Any feedback greatly appreciated.

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