Client performance on our domain is slow..??

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From: DRUAngell (DRUAngell_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:39:04 -0800

At my work they installed new servers and we're all on a domain now. I've
done small workgroup networks...not domains. Obviously I'm not in charge of
all this at work...but I have questions because they're stubborn and I'm
gonna try and find the answers...

There are 3 of us that have experienced this same thing. When we log into
the domain the computers in general run extremely slow. Now...they vary.
I'm running a Motion Computing Tablet PC 1.4Ghz 512MB RAM. The other 2 are
P4 2.8's with 1GB RAM each. Also, I don't expect much from my system.
During the day I have Filemaker, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Outlook w/ Word,
AIM, vearious IE windows all day as well as lots of copying and pasting.
When I'm on the domain, though, everything crawls!

The computer can't keep up with me when I'm on the domain. A good example is
when I'm in photoshop. Let's say I'm saving a picture as 11243bLarge.jpg.
I'll type that out really fast and hit enter, but when the computer stops
after about 1124...waits a few seconds...and then quickly finishes it up and
even continues on because I hit enter.

Copying and Pasting text to and from applications does this same sort of
thing. It's all just very slow. Normally I'll ctrl+c something, quickly
alt+tab to my application and then ctrl+v where I want it. Nice and easy.
But with each step there i just mentioned I have to wait a few seconds.
Throughout the course of a day this gets very aggrivating.

It's been this way for about 4 months now. At times it'll suddenly all
start going really quick. Random times in the day...never specific times.
But then i'd start going to really slow again.

Today, it started out horrible when I got there. I couldn't even get logged
into to our Filemaker databases. I restarted my computer but this time
instead of logging onto the domain I just logged onto Tablet...not the
domain. This is the way I always do it when I'm at home and my computer
never runs slow at home.

The entire day my computer ran like a champ. With all those same
applications open and everything. Not one single time did I have to wait on
Photoshop to keep up with me saving photos. Copy and Paste ran quickly and
everything was great the whole day...when I wasn't on the domain. And...i
could still use the printers and get to email on the Exchange Server and
everything...i just had to set it all up again like the first time. No big
deal at all.

"the administrator" at my work won't believe me that it runs better. But it
worked for all 3 of us today when I told them to get off the domain. I'm
searching for ANY information or tips I could try to tell them that might fix
this problem. Any info would be awesome! Thanks!

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