Re: Is Windows XP becoming sluggish natural?
- From: "Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:14:43 +0200
"BC" <callmebc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Nobody seems to really know for sure why
> XP slows down so much with time, even if
> you rarely add new programs or even just
> update your old ones. The slowest PC's I've
> seen recently have been 1st and 2nd
> generation XP PC's with 1.5-2.0 Ghz
> Celeron and P4 precessors, and they are
> much slower than even older PC's running
> Win98 and 2K.
>
> The old tricks for speeding up Win98, like
> defragging, don't seem to have that much
> of an effect. The only sure way to get the
> speed back is to back up all your data and
> then wipe out and reinstall Windows and all
> your apps. I've tried purging all the temp
> files, shrinking down the IE cache size,
> cleaning up the registry, defragging,
> shutting off unnecessary processes....
>
> While this gets some speed back, it's
> usually still nowhere near what it use to
> be when it was new.
>
> In your case, while it could be hardware,
> it's very likely not. One test would be to
> restart in Safe Mode (tap, tap, tap...the
> F8 key just prior to Windows starting) and
> then see how responsive your PC is. If it
> seems faster then, it's very likely a
> Windows issue. You might think that all you
> need to do is remove enough processes, but
> it's not so simple as that....
>
> There are many articles on the Internet
> about how to speed up XP like that PC Mag
> one -- PC gaming-oriented sites are have
> many such articles in particular, but....
> reformatting is really the only sure way.
> Reformatting and installing Win2K instead
> will get you even more speed.
>
> -BC
Horsepucky. My XP Pro is just as fast as it was when I installed it a year
ago. W2K is an inferior product. Just to give you one example, I had one
computer with Win 98 and anothr with W2K, both connecting to the Net via a
router. W2K kept having problems logging on and I couldn't figure out why. I
took W2K off and installed XP Pro and come to find out that I had named both
the Win98 machine and the other with the same name. XP, upon the first boot
knew that, gave me a message to that effect and, upon changing the name on
the other computer, booted up like silk. Why didn't your wonderful W2K pick
that up? Another difference is the Fax. If you have twenty pages coming and
their is a transmission error on page 19, W2K dumps the entire fax and you
see nothing. XP keeps the 19 pages you've received so you can see them, know
who sent the fax, and call them about the missing page.
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