larryg
April 17th 03, 03:50 PM
I had the same problem yesterday. Extreme slowdown
loading programs. Had problem on both a Windows XP Home
and Windows XP Pro machine I have. One an Intel P4
machine and the other an Intel Xeon machine.
I ended up removing the 811493 kernal update and
everything returned to normal. Suggest you do the same.
>-----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
>.
>
loading programs. Had problem on both a Windows XP Home
and Windows XP Pro machine I have. One an Intel P4
machine and the other an Intel Xeon machine.
I ended up removing the 811493 kernal update and
everything returned to normal. Suggest you do the same.
>-----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
>.
>