Hotfixes slowing system down?

[Rolf Erik Brandsnes]

We have three Dell computers. All are running Windows XP
Pro. Two of them have Service Pack 1 installed, the third
one does not. Never the less, when I recently updated
with one of the latest Hotfixes, they all began to work
so slowly that they are practically useless.
I have heard that there may be some problems connected
with Service Pack 1 and memory management, and that many
hotfixes may slow the system down. If so, one should
think this slowing down process should have happened
gradually, but it did not. I also tried uninstalling
Service Pack 1 from one of the computers and it helped a
little bit.
Does anyone know what the problem(s) may be and
preferrably how to fix them?
Thank you!

REB

[Dan DeStefano]

this is likely due to the 811493 hotfix, which has known performance
slowdown issues when installed on xp sp1 machines (it should not effect
non-sp1 machines, though). if you remove this hotfix then you problems will
likely go away. ms is currently working on a fix and, when available, it
will be linked to this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-013.asp

Dan DeStefano


"Rolf Erik Brandsnes" > wrote in message
...
> We have three Dell computers. All are running Windows XP
> Pro. Two of them have Service Pack 1 installed, the third
> one does not. Never the less, when I recently updated
> with one of the latest Hotfixes, they all began to work
> so slowly that they are practically useless.
> I have heard that there may be some problems connected
> with Service Pack 1 and memory management, and that many
> hotfixes may slow the system down. If so, one should
> think this slowing down process should have happened
> gradually, but it did not. I also tried uninstalling
> Service Pack 1 from one of the computers and it helped a
> little bit.
> Does anyone know what the problem(s) may be and
> preferrably how to fix them?
> Thank you!
>
> REB