After SP2 installation... ?

[chicagofan]

So far all that has happened is the pc would not awake from "Stand By"
for the first time; and it seems to take twice as long to start up and
shut down, as it did before SP2.

Any simple things to check on these changes? Should I disable the
Windows firewall, if I am using CA's EZ Trust[or any other firewall]?
Could that be why it is slower?
bj

[Andre Da Costa]

Restart in Safe Mode, do a disk clean up, defrag the drive.

Clean out your pre-fetch folder:
a.. Open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete
files, reboot. It is recommended that you do this every month

Start > Run > type in: "msconfig" without quotes > startup (tab), uncheck
any unnecessary programs that might be starting up with the system and
restart.

Andre
"chicagofan" > wrote in message
...
> So far all that has happened is the pc would not awake from "Stand By" for
> the first time; and it seems to take twice as long to start up and shut
> down, as it did before SP2.
>
> Any simple things to check on these changes? Should I disable the Windows
> firewall, if I am using CA's EZ Trust[or any other firewall]? Could that
> be why it is slower?
> bj

[Colin Barnhorst]

You will find useful advice here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=windowsxpsp2
and here: (888) SP2HELP or (888) 772-4357.


"chicagofan" > wrote in message
...
> So far all that has happened is the pc would not awake from "Stand By" for
> the first time; and it seems to take twice as long to start up and shut
> down, as it did before SP2.
>
> Any simple things to check on these changes? Should I disable the Windows
> firewall, if I am using CA's EZ Trust[or any other firewall]? Could that
> be why it is slower?
> bj

[MR]

you said this::
Clean out your pre-fetch folder:
> a.. Open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete
> files, reboot. It is recommended that you do this every month
What are all those files in there that I see and are they safe to delete???
What should I not delete in there- I dont want to delete stuff there that I
will regret later. thanks

"Andre Da Costa" > wrote in message
...
> Restart in Safe Mode, do a disk clean up, defrag the drive.
>
> > Start > Run > type in: "msconfig" without quotes > startup (tab),
uncheck
> any unnecessary programs that might be starting up with the system and
> restart.
>
> Andre
> "chicagofan" > wrote in message
> ...
> > So far all that has happened is the pc would not awake from "Stand By"
for
> > the first time; and it seems to take twice as long to start up and shut
> > down, as it did before SP2.
> >
> > Any simple things to check on these changes? Should I disable the
Windows
> > firewall, if I am using CA's EZ Trust[or any other firewall]? Could that
> > be why it is slower?
> > bj
>
>