Performance degradation

[Lori]

I have several PC's running XP Pro. I have noticed that
the performance is degrading on them. It is taking too
long for programs to open/respond. I have the latest
service pack and updates. I have also ran disk clean up,
defrag and scan disk. Any other suggestions?

[Rich Barry]

Unfortunately some of the latest Win Updates have contributed to the
degraded performance. Fifty percent of the posts
here lately have been just about this subject. Yet I have not
experienced the same problems and have all the latest
updates. Try reducing the number of programs that open on startup. Go
to Start>Run type: msconfig Select
Startup tab and uncheck those you can do without. Also try Bootvis a MS
utility. http://www.softnews.ro/public/cat/12/2/12-2-1.shtml You might
want to dump some of your old restore points.
MyComputer>Drive Icon rt click select properties>disk cleanup>more
options>system restore>cleanup.
"Lori" > wrote in message
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> I have several PC's running XP Pro. I have noticed that
> the performance is degrading on them. It is taking too
> long for programs to open/respond. I have the latest
> service pack and updates. I have also ran disk clean up,
> defrag and scan disk. Any other suggestions?