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XP Pro - slows down after about 90 minutes

Asked by Newby_takin_off in Windows XP Operating System

Athlon XP 1800 / 256MB RAM, GEForce 4 MX 440 (64MB) Graphics, Windows XP Pro - all latest patches.

Ever since I started using this machine, I find the performance really slugs after about 60-90 minutes use. I previously thought it was just if I left the machine for about half an hour, and then returned, but it's all the time. Blazingly fast (as it should be !) on power up, but like painting with glue after it's been operating 90 minutes or so.

It's actually sometimes better just to restart the machine to get decent performance.

It seems (but I'm not 100% certain) it's mainly the graphics that are really sluggish to refresh paint. Even restoring a window to normal size from minimized grabs a huge amount of CPU.

Swap file size etc. seems OK, so I don't think it's an IO performance issue, but might be. I will increase RAM to 512MB before too long, but even 256MB should be OK ? I'm happy there are no rogue softwares or Trojan processes embedded.

Anyone seen this before, or have any suggestions what to do or check ?

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XP Pro - slows down after about 90 minutes

Asked by Newby_takin_off in Windows XP Operating System

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