John
April 17th 03, 08:35 AM
Same problem here. XP SP1 Home 1gb ram pentium 4 1.8mhz
811493 adds up to 10 seconds to each program load.
Uninstalled 811493 and normal performance resumed.
John
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I've got a month old Dell WinXPHome, SP1 machine. It
>runs at 2.4ghz, with 512mb ram. The 60gb hard drive
only
>has 6gb of data. It used to load programs very fast.
>This morning, I installed Security Update:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
>US;Q811493
>
>Now, programs load very, very slow. For instance, when
I
>launch IE, the hour glass stays on for about 3 seconds,
>then disappears for 3 seconds, then reappears for
another
>3 seconds, and finally, IE loads up. This also happens
>with other apps.
>
>Once it took so long to load an app that I hit ctrl-alt-
>del to get task manager to see what was going on.
>Everything looked normal, but when I did an end task on
>each of the few programs that were running, I got a
>message that Windows Task Scheduler could not end, and
>did I want to end task. I wasn't aware that it was
>running, so I ended it, too. All other programs ended
>orderly, with no warnings.
>
>CPU usage is 2%. No viruses, or spyware.
>
>Could the update, above, have caused this?
>
>Thanks,
>Bruce
>.
>
811493 adds up to 10 seconds to each program load.
Uninstalled 811493 and normal performance resumed.
John
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I've got a month old Dell WinXPHome, SP1 machine. It
>runs at 2.4ghz, with 512mb ram. The 60gb hard drive
only
>has 6gb of data. It used to load programs very fast.
>This morning, I installed Security Update:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
>US;Q811493
>
>Now, programs load very, very slow. For instance, when
I
>launch IE, the hour glass stays on for about 3 seconds,
>then disappears for 3 seconds, then reappears for
another
>3 seconds, and finally, IE loads up. This also happens
>with other apps.
>
>Once it took so long to load an app that I hit ctrl-alt-
>del to get task manager to see what was going on.
>Everything looked normal, but when I did an end task on
>each of the few programs that were running, I got a
>message that Windows Task Scheduler could not end, and
>did I want to end task. I wasn't aware that it was
>running, so I ended it, too. All other programs ended
>orderly, with no warnings.
>
>CPU usage is 2%. No viruses, or spyware.
>
>Could the update, above, have caused this?
>
>Thanks,
>Bruce
>.
>