Re: MY COMPUTER IS SOOO SLOWWW

Disabling the Windows Firewall is unwise.

What anti-virus software is installed?

If you intend to connect the computer to the internet it is essential
that you have anti-virus and anti-spyware programmes installed with a
firewall enabled. If you miss out on any of these you will soon be
overun by malware and the computer rendered unusable. You can obtain
perfectly adequate freeware programmes to keep your system protected.

Updating to SP2 would not improve your system performance but it
improves security and eliminates bugs in the software.

The Event Viewer reports are of no great consequence but they could
indicate a system under pressure.

A boot process taking 2 minutes is actually not slow. It may take longer
with security software installed but that is essential.

What is the computer make and model?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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status1 wrote:
Gerry,
I installed sp2 thinking that it may run better but it did not make
any difference
I also disabled the firewall and I am not running any anti spyware
but that did not make any difference either
Here are a couple of lines from the event log
12/24/2008 11:24:18 AM RemoteAccess Warning None 20169 N/A
Unable to contact a DHCP server. The Automatic Private IP Address
will be assigned to dial-in clients. Clients may be unable to access
resources on the network.

12/24/2008 11:22:28 AM Dhcp Warning None 1007 N/A
Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the
Network Card with network address . The IP address being used is

I had some disk errors last month when I first installed xp but
nothing recently
I think the event viewer is used after xp is up and running so I
don't think it can help to see what is happening while it's booting
It's probably like you said not enough memory
I am currently shopping around for that


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