Re: windows xp pro slow...

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Robbo wrote:


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Thanks for your detailed reply.

RAM is not the only hardware component that can fail. I would also
check your hard drive's health with a diagnostic utility downloaded
from the drive mftr.'s website. Create the bootable media and then
boot with it and do a thorough test. If the drive fails any physical
tests, replace it.

I checked the disks with diagnostic tools. Everything is OK.

Since "running weird slow" doesn't really tell me anything, you might

"running weird slow" is a feeling when I compared my 2 year old system
to a fresh installed system.
PCs are very similar and mine should be even better. My system is P4
2.8 GHz HT Prescott, 1.5 GB RAM. The other PC with fresh install was
P4 2.4 GHz HT and 768MB Ram.
After few minutes of working with the fresh install I had a feeling
that it is working significantly better than mine.
It may also be that I am overreacting after that comparision that I
have experienced. Much of the performance I gained by uninstalling
antyvirus
scanner... But I need it anyway, and the other PC also had some
antyvir installed. I will check again with some other antivir
software.

I also have a feeling that sometimes the system could have cached some
of the files, beacuse I see reads from HDD very often

also check to see if the hard drive is running in PIO mode instead of
DMA. Here is an explanation and the fix from MVP Hans-Georg Michna:
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

It is in UDMA mode 5. Disk transfers are fine.


I see in another one of your posts that you don't have a lot of hard
drive space. I would definitely free up some space as another poster
suggested.

Then do clean-boot troubleshooting. Aside from that, I really can't give
you any further suggestions since I can't see your computer and I don't
know what you have installed. If you have loads of resource-hungry
programs running resident - Norton products, etc. - then that could
certainly slow down a machine.

Clean boot in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353
Clean-boot advanced troubleshooting in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316434
How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

Malke
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Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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