IronMaiden
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XP has slowed to a crawl
Installed XP over 98 SE that was running very well ( for 98) I started noticeing that my applications took a long time and then a longer time to respond when opened. Thhis is particularly true of any proggy like powerdesk and even windows explorer itself but has spread to most of my ohter programs as well. .I did not add any programs or change any HW. I have defraged my drives. I did re do my page file to static and 500 mbs and that did seem to help for a bit but its down hill from there. Are there any settings I am missing? is it time for a clean install?
specs:
Piii 700 on abit bx 6 r2
512 mb ram matched pair 133
ATI radeon ddr 32
aureal vortex by Xitel
4 HDDS on promise ultra 100 with latest driver and bios
no other HW that should matter .
anything else you need to know?
Thanks
specs:
Piii 700 on abit bx 6 r2
512 mb ram matched pair 133
ATI radeon ddr 32
aureal vortex by Xitel
4 HDDS on promise ultra 100 with latest driver and bios
no other HW that should matter .
anything else you need to know?
Thanks
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no I did not update them, I was happy with the xp ones and I hate ATI s driver installs :)) but will try that. system idle and IE take up most of the cpu cycles with taskmnger and G6 switching in and out.
also do a defrag, and a general cleanup
also go to start-->run and type msconfig go to the startup tab, and uncheck all but systray and explorer, and reboot and see. If it runs better, recheck them one at a time until you notice the slowdown
also go to start-->run and type msconfig go to the startup tab, and uncheck all but systray and explorer, and reboot and see. If it runs better, recheck them one at a time until you notice the slowdown
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click this links(regarding slow respond in win xp)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdocID%3dKC.Q310419%26dialogID%3d7241550%26iterationID%3d1%26sessionID%3danonymous%7c5232103
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdocID%3dKC.Q294770%26dialogID%3d7241550%26iterationID%3d1%26sessionID%3danonymous%7c5232103
hope it can help you
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdocID%3dKC.Q310419%26dialogID%3d7241550%26iterationID%3d1%26sessionID%3danonymous%7c5232103
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdocID%3dKC.Q294770%26dialogID%3d7241550%26iterationID%3d1%26sessionID%3danonymous%7c5232103
hope it can help you
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I ended up doing a clean install of XP rather than the upgrade path so I thank all for the help but couldnt seem to be able to resolve this issue any other way
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Yes i will split the points as suggested. Thank You for reminding me this was here ( my bad).
uhm how do i split points ?
guess i will look at faqs for that?
uhm how do i split points ?
guess i will look at faqs for that?
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what does ctrl+alt+del and check the processes running and what is using most of the cpu % wise?