XP Pro with SP3 and updates runs very slow
I have an older Thinkpad that I recently decided had some use for someone. I loaded XP Pro, SP3 and the system was running great with very reasonable response times to load programs etc. It is a single processor so was not expecting high response rates. However, after loading approximately 125 MS updates, this system is extremely slow. I am using MS Security Essentials. I've also run CCleaner, JV16 PowerTools Lite but nothing seems to fix this issue. What could the MS updates be doing or have done that would slow down this system so much? BTW....no new programs have been added that would change the response rate.
Have you looked for vendor-specific device drivers for that model Thinkpad that might be newer/better than XP's built-in drivers?
@tonyadam,
You would need to disable or remove the software and services which are not required or not necessary. I would suggest you to use "AutoRuns" which is part of Sysinternals from Microsoft, which would give you insight of every program, application, drivers, dlls etc loaded on your system.
Autoruns Download:
http://download.sysinternals.com/files/Autoruns.zip
Autoruns Info:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902
Sysinternals Suite:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062
In case if you are unable to work with it let us know, we would try to help you out with it as well.
I hope that would help.
Sudeep
You would need to disable or remove the software and services which are not required or not necessary. I would suggest you to use "AutoRuns" which is part of Sysinternals from Microsoft, which would give you insight of every program, application, drivers, dlls etc loaded on your system.
Autoruns Download:
http://download.sysinternals.com/files/Autoruns.zip
Autoruns Info:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902
Sysinternals Suite:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062
In case if you are unable to work with it let us know, we would try to help you out with it as well.
I hope that would help.
Sudeep
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One quick comment to IainNIX....I'm aware of the TP issues. Therefore, I elected to load XP Pro from an OEM version....not from the TP recoverable partition. I'm assuming that doing the gen this way, I would not have any of the TP issues like Access Connections. Would you still recommend loading the Thinkvantage System Update? I'm concerned that that will even slow things down further. Again, everything was very responsive until I loaded the MS Updates.
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Just an update....I've been out of pocket for a few days and will attempt to remove the updates to see if the system goes back to behaving correctly. Will let you know what I find out.
in answer to your question, yes i would install the System Update package, you need to install the basic drivers for audio, video, chipset and wireless/bluetooth/biometr
i would do this before you add any windows patches, to verify your system is ok. I have done this many times before without incident. even a T43 and T60 with Win 7 Pro 32bit worked fine this way.
i would do this before you add any windows patches, to verify your system is ok. I have done this many times before without incident. even a T43 and T60 with Win 7 Pro 32bit worked fine this way.
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I found that .NET was one of the reasons for the "sluggish" performance. However, it is still not performing as well as I think itshould. I'm closing the question and will implement the suggestions provided and hope that it is a usable system. Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the Points and the feedback. : )
good to know thanks and good luck.
You could try disabling all the non Microsoft Services to test and enable 5 at a time. Same with startup programs.
Check to see if HDD needs a defrag as well