Re: XP unacceptably slow suddenly after no change

Cannot understand the sense of what you are asking, anyway I will do it for
exercise and I will post the results soon.
Now the workstation performs well, so I think there will be nothing
interesting in the event log or the task manager, but I could be wrong and I
will check.

Bye
Filippo



"Gerry" wrote:

Just answer my questions. If you have formatted the hard drive and
reinstalled Windows XP all the logs etc start afresh. Provide the
answers from the system as it is now. I am not interested in what were
the problems before you reinstalled.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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setecastronomy wrote:
I wrote:
but after we
restored the hard disk from the initial image the problem
disappeared

Perhaps it is not clear but what I mean is that the hard disck was
formatted and the o.s. was reinstalled from scartch, so I cannot
provide the informations you are requesting. Before re-installing I
double checked everything and found nothing wrong in the task
manager. The event log contained some errors but they ere the same I
see on other workstations which performs well, so I thought they were
not so important.
MY QUESTION is if there is a way to find out what the o.s. is waiting
for when it is doing nothing (according to task manager) and it
processes windows events only once every two minutes. I wonder if one
of the sysinternals tools can be helpful.
Do you have some tools to suggest ?

Thanks
Filippo


"Gerry" wrote:

Filippo

Your response is unhelpful as it does not provide answers to the
specific questions I asked. You are providing your interpretation of
facts rather than just giving the facts. I did not ask about CPU
usage.

Restart your computer and then look in the Event Viewer System and
Application logs. Post actual copies of the Reports not bits from
them.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and
double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which
appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close
Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the
body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting
from Event Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

setecastronomy wrote:
I already wrote all useful informations task manager could give:
Cpu free at 99%
Memory used no more than 20% (400 MB of 2 GB)
Hard disk almost empty an I suppose not very fragmented due to the
fact the workstation was 15 working day old !!

The event log has gone (I recovered the o.s. from the initial image)
but only few errors were noted about the fact System account could
not start the service
D851F103-8C90-4321-AFF0-58BA5BD421C2.

"Gerry" wrote:

Filippo

How much RAM?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the
Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit
and the Peak?

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager.
With the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check
the boxes before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What
are the figures for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report
and click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My
Documents Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk
Defragmenter as it is more informative.

Check the System log of Event Viewer for Error Reports.

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System log in Event Viewer for the last boot. No Information
Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in a
previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and
double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which
appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and
close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste
into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste
after exiting from Event Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~





setecastronomy wrote:
A month ago we bought some Hp workstation xw6400 with xeon 5335
and Nvidia Quadro Fx560.
We chose windows Xp as o. s. because we have lots of other
workstations with that o.s. and we preferred avoiding to
introduce a different one (Vista).

We installed some applications such as Office 2003, ArcGis and
Autocad.

Everything worked fine till yesterday morning, without any
modification since prevoius day. Suddenly two of these
workstations started to go unacceptably slow.
Checking the task manager the cpu was free at 99%, but you had to
wait minutes before seeing the effect of your requests.
The logon time was very long too. After only 5 or 6 minutes you
could see your usual desktop. It was not a network problem: we
tried disabling the network interface but

we didn't regain speed. To avoid misunderstanding I want to stress
I'm complaining about having to wait minutes before seeing the
effect of clicking on the START

button in the application bar when the cpu was free and the ram
was used at 20 %.
We thought it could be the consequence of a hardware failure but
after we restored the hard disk from the initial image the problem
disappeared.

We are sure we install only widely used software and above all we
did't change anything immediately before the appearance of the
problem.
So we are scared it can happen again and it is defitely a bad
thing for the users of those workstations.
We wonder what monitoring tools are available to analyze the
problem if it will occur again.

Thanks
Filippo



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