XP Slowdown?
 

Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)

XP Slowdown?
 

On 12/13/2014 12:16 AM, Todd wrote:
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)



No, MS is not doing anything with XP

XP Slowdown?
 

On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 22:16:27 -0800, Todd wrote:
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Unless both are taking System Restore snapshots (which is triggered by
time), or doing background defragmentation (when idle); I could only guess
that the other 10 VMs are using the CPU.

XP Slowdown?
 

Todd wrote:
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)

And what did Task Manager tell you ?

Is the runaway thing a svchost ?

If the OS is WinXP Pro, then this will give
the contents of a svchost. The busy svchost
could be the one with wuauserv in it.

tasklist /svc

HTH,
Paul

XP Slowdown?
 

Todd wrote in :

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)


Frankenstein is a vengeful dude . . . (;

--

Pat

email: phartzATcoxDOTnet

XP Slowdown?
 

On 13/12/2014 06:16, Todd wrote:
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)


The age is catching up (like most living things) with XP. Perhaps it's
time move on to Windows 8.1 on a new 64 bit machine.

XP Slowdown? Answer by:: Paul
 

"Paul" wrote in message
...
Todd wrote:
Hi All, I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.
Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs? Many thanks,
-T
And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat. :-)

And what did Task Manager tell you ?
Is the runaway thing a svchost ?

If the OS is WinXP Pro, then this will give
the contents of a svchost. The busy svchost
could be the one with wuauserv in it.

tasklist /svc

HTH,

XP Slowdown?
 

On 12/13/2014 02:15 AM, JJ wrote:
the other 10 VMs are using the CPU

I usually only run two at once. Sometimes I
will hit 4.

XP Slowdown?
 

On 12/13/2014 10:51 AM, Phantom Post wrote:
Todd wrote in :

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)


Frankenstein is a vengeful dude . . . (;


:-)

XP Slowdown?
 

On 12/13/2014 01:45 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 13/12/2014 06:16, Todd wrote:
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)


The age is catching up (like most living things) with XP. Perhaps it's
time move on to Windows 8.1 on a new 64 bit machine.


One of my VM's is Frankenstein (w8). Frankie is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.
Swear word have not been created yet to adequately describe it

XP Slowdown?
 

On 13/12/2014 23:44, Todd wrote:


One of my VM's is Frankenstein (w8). Frankie is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.
Swear word have not been created yet to adequately describe it



You can go to Microsoft HQ and tell them what you think of them:

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/12/11/join-us-to-hear-about-the-next-chapter-of-windows-10/

XP Slowdown?
 

On 12/13/2014 03:48 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 13/12/2014 23:44, Todd wrote:


One of my VM's is Frankenstein (w8). Frankie is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.
Swear word have not been created yet to adequately describe it



You can go to Microsoft HQ and tell them what you think of them:

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/12/11/join-us-to-hear-about-the-next-chapter-of-windows-10/


Lets hope 10 is better

XP Slowdown?
 

On 12/12/2014 10:16 PM, Todd wrote:
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)


One of them today gave me a note at boot up that something
was wrong with my registry and its had to be recovered.
I don't remember the exact message. And this VM is back
to full speed.

I still need to try the other one.

XP Slowdown?
 

On 12/13/2014 04:32 PM, Todd wrote:
On 12/12/2014 10:16 PM, Todd wrote:
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)


One of them today gave me a note at boot up that something
was wrong with my registry and its had to be recovered.
I don't remember the exact message. And this VM is back
to full speed.

I still need to try the other one.

I just let the other one sit there headless for a day, and
it cleared up too. I wonder if Kaspersky was doing some
kind of update and/or scan