PC is drastically slower since updates were installed

[Justin Hunt]

I have a pentium 4, 2.53GHZ, 384 MB Ram PC with 9% of the
hard drive in use and just recently in the last couple of
weeks my PC is running much slower. I am having to wait
so much longer for an application to start when an icon
is clicked etc... The problems seem to have started since
I installed some critical windows updates and other
updates, noteably DirectX 9.0a. I have tried defraging
the hard drive, using disk clean-up and scaning for
errors using Norton Anti-virus all with no success in
regaining my original speed. I cant use system restore to
roll back to a good point since I dont have the relevant
restore points available, only the most recent. Task
manager indicates that I am always well within my systems
limitations and that I have more than enough RAM etc
available to use. Please help as it very frustrating. My
Dads windows 95 is currently faster.
Many Thanks
Justin

[Deuce]

"Justin Hunt" > wrote in news:07c901c30aa4$85940310
:

> I have a pentium 4, 2.53GHZ, 384 MB Ram PC with 9% of the
> hard drive in use and just recently in the last couple of
> weeks my PC is running much slower. I am having to wait
> so much longer for an application to start when an icon
> is clicked etc... The problems seem to have started since
> I installed some critical windows updates and other
> updates, noteably DirectX 9.0a. I have tried defraging
> the hard drive, using disk clean-up and scaning for
> errors using Norton Anti-virus all with no success in
> regaining my original speed. I cant use system restore to
> roll back to a good point since I dont have the relevant
> restore points available, only the most recent. Task
> manager indicates that I am always well within my systems
> limitations and that I have more than enough RAM etc
> available to use. Please help as it very frustrating. My
> Dads windows 95 is currently faster.
> Many Thanks
> Justin

If you installed this patch 811493, uninstall it.
Control Panel> Add/Remove

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Why drive... when you can Ride!!!

Deuce

[Marc Liron]

I would not recommend any one install this one at the
moment..

Bit of a home goal by Redmond with this one! It kind of
makes you what testing they did prior to release...?

More info in this article if anyone reading this post is
not familiar with the problem:

http://www.updatexp.com/q811493.html

Regards

Marc