Windows XP is Slow

Hi, Scott - Have you tried looking in the Task Manager
(via Control-Alt-Delete) to see if there are any Processes
that are hoarding the CPU? With no programs running, the
only one that should show a high CPU % should be the "Idle
Processes".

If the is one (or more) capturing the CPU, *maybe* it will
be identified as something you will recognize. But if it
shows "svchost.exe" then it could be anything - but at
least you'll have a point from which to start
troubleshooting.


>-----Original Message-----
>I have Windows XP Pro on a 2.4 Ghz PC with 1 GB of RAM.
>The Windows 2000 partition runs fast, however, the second
>partition with Windows XP Pro is running very slow. I
>ran all the maintanence programs, disabled the startup
>programs, and even ran the SFC utility to bring as much
>back to the original as possible.
>
>It takes over 3 minutes to boot up, and there is a
>significant delay when the start menu is displayed or a
>program is launched. This is with all the startup
>options disabled. I made sure no spyware was installed,
>and I scanned several times for viruses.
>
>Does anyone have any sugestions that I can try, other
>than reinstalling the OS?
>.
>

[Rob Schneider]

Eric,

Inspecting the list of programs that you have instructed XP to start via
msconfig is *terrific* advice. Unless you manually start something, or
unless some nefarious program (virus, spybot, etc.) program starts
itself or other things, it will be in msconfig. Look there and see.
Also inspect the task manager list of running program.

Just running msconfig won't work. You have to run it and inspect it and
think about it.

Other common causes of slowness are fragmented disks (defrag it),
insufficient swap space, Anti-virus programs slowing down opening and
closing of files, lots of unnecessary processes (see msconfig),
insufficient memory (you should have at least 256, 512 better), etc.

[Alan T]

Hello,
Are you running Norton Utilities? I have had considerable speed improvement by turning off Norton Protection, which keeps copies of changed files. Outlook opens several times faster than before...but I am still suffering from a very slow startup, so any id
eas there would be appreciated.
Alan