After Power Outage - Performance degraded

[Scott]

After a recent power outage, my times for acessing
properties, opening files, etc through explorer are
greatly increased. All hardware seems to be functioning
correctly, no errors occur, all network connections are
valid, times are increase 3 to 4 times, at least.

I have defragged the disk, I did not notice any
improvement. Does anyone have any ideas?

Cordially,

Scott

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

If the power outage caused file system damage, defragging won't fix
that. You want to run chkdsk on your next boot. Right-click your C:
drive, click the Tools tab and run error checking. chkdsk will ask if
you want to run the check on the next boot.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Scott" > wrote in
message ...

> After a recent power outage, my times for acessing
> properties, opening files, etc through explorer are
> greatly increased. All hardware seems to be functioning
> correctly, no errors occur, all network connections are
> valid, times are increase 3 to 4 times, at least.
>
> I have defragged the disk, I did not notice any
> improvement. Does anyone have any ideas?

[Scott]

Kent,

Thanks for the help!

Chkdsk found no errors, but most items seem to be running
at their "normal" speeds now. The one issue I am still
seeing is that when I am in explorer and double-click for
instance an *.spf file, which is an output file from an
SQR program, it takes over a minute for it to start the
viewer and open it - before it took seconds. If I have
the viewer/editor open and open the output file from there
it takes seconds.

Any ideas, it is almost like it is trying to figure out
its associations.

Scott
>-----Original Message-----
>If the power outage caused file system damage, defragging
won't fix
>that. You want to run chkdsk on your next boot. Right-
click your C:
>drive, click the Tools tab and run error checking. chkdsk
will ask if
>you want to run the check on the next boot.
>
>--
>Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
>
>
>
>"Scott" > wrote in
>message ...
>
>> After a recent power outage, my times for acessing
>> properties, opening files, etc through explorer are
>> greatly increased. All hardware seems to be functioning
>> correctly, no errors occur, all network connections are
>> valid, times are increase 3 to 4 times, at least.
>>
>> I have defragged the disk, I did not notice any
>> improvement. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>.
>

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

That's pretty common for apps to slow down when they load. I don't have
any specific advice for SQR.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Scott" > wrote in
message ...
> Kent,
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Chkdsk found no errors, but most items seem to be running
> at their "normal" speeds now. The one issue I am still
> seeing is that when I am in explorer and double-click for
> instance an *.spf file, which is an output file from an
> SQR program, it takes over a minute for it to start the
> viewer and open it - before it took seconds. If I have
> the viewer/editor open and open the output file from there
> it takes seconds.
>
> Any ideas, it is almost like it is trying to figure out
> its associations.
>
> Scott
> >-----Original Message-----
> >If the power outage caused file system damage, defragging
> won't fix
> >that. You want to run chkdsk on your next boot. Right-
> click your C:
> >drive, click the Tools tab and run error checking. chkdsk
> will ask if
> >you want to run the check on the next boot.
> >
> >--
> >Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
> >
> >
> >
> >"Scott" > wrote in
> >message ...
> >
> >> After a recent power outage, my times for acessing
> >> properties, opening files, etc through explorer are
> >> greatly increased. All hardware seems to be functioning
> >> correctly, no errors occur, all network connections are
> >> valid, times are increase 3 to 4 times, at least.
> >>
> >> I have defragged the disk, I did not notice any
> >> improvement. Does anyone have any ideas?
> >
> >.
> >