XP Home + SP2 + Disk thrashing

[zero]

To help a mate out

XP Home + SP2 - i wont mention the "system idle" being 90% as i've just
researhed thats ok !

but hes adamant since sp2 its taking minutes to open anything e.g. explorer

and hard drive light is always thrashing

hes ex-IT so his PC cant be totally spywared as he runs a business from it

hes virus checked ok and firewalled

any pointers ?

thanks

[r]

System Restore
Indexing
Background defragmentation
Synchronization
Backup

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Spyware/Virus Removal and Prevention:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/windowsxpsolutions.htm
(Links to online virus scans on the same page)

How to optimize Windows XP, 2000, ME
for the best performance (Step-by-step Visual Guide):
http://www.fixyourwindows.com

Good Luck!

[Yves Leclerc]

What is the amount of RAM memory you have?


"zero" > wrote in message
...
>
> To help a mate out
>
> XP Home + SP2 - i wont mention the "system idle" being 90% as i've just
> researhed thats ok !
>
> but hes adamant since sp2 its taking minutes to open anything e.g.
> explorer
>
> and hard drive light is always thrashing
>
> hes ex-IT so his PC cant be totally spywared as he runs a business from it
>
> hes virus checked ok and firewalled
>
> any pointers ?
>
> thanks
>
>
>

[Tony Lisanti]

This could be a number of problems, such as your hard drive failing,
defrag needed, or it may even be bad memory. Windows XP has lots of
utilities to monitor the system. I suggest you pickup a good book
that would detail some of the options in using these utilities.


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:22:56 -0000, "zero"
> wrote:

>
>To help a mate out
>
>XP Home + SP2 - i wont mention the "system idle" being 90% as i've just
>researhed thats ok !
>
>but hes adamant since sp2 its taking minutes to open anything e.g. explorer
>
>and hard drive light is always thrashing
>
>hes ex-IT so his PC cant be totally spywared as he runs a business from it
>
>hes virus checked ok and firewalled
>
>any pointers ?
>
>thanks
>
>