Super Slow XP... Tried Everything

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:06:11 -0500, "Ted Zieglar"

Isn't it time to make a web site for Windows XP? Especially if you want to
send posters from this newsgroup there?

Well, given time contraints, there are various things I could do.

I could re-write all existing material to either generalize it, or
dual it into Win9x and NT versions.

Or I could retain the existing Win9x site as-is, and create new
material that is related to XP.

I've chosen to do the latter, so...

http://cquirke.mvps.org

....is the new top-level that's either general or XP, while...

http://cquirke.mvps.org/9x

....is the original Win9x site.

These sites are not intended to be complete advice sites. To do an
nth complete advice site that is a worthwhile improvement on existing
sites (many of which are brilliant!) would take more time that I have,
and more knowledge and skill that I have even if I had the time.

So instead, what you find at the sites are specific topics that I've
covered because I haven't found them covered elsewhere, or I have my
own particular take on issues and present that in a page or few.

Many of the pages in the Win9x site are broadly applicable to any
Windows user, and often the topic is an old one that I really don't
feel like revisiting. So yes, you will still see links to pages on
"before you think", formal virus checking, or (in this case) the
impact of software on the PC, that are from the Win9x site g



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He is way behind the times anyway. Just read some of his
posts.

"Ted Zieglar" wrote in message
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Isn't it time to make a web site for Windows XP? Especially if you want to
send posters from this newsgroup there?

Ted Zieglar

"cquirke (MVP Win9x)" wrote in message
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 02:41:51 GMT, "Cyber-Hun"

The speed you're describing is way too slow for that hardware/OS combo.
Sounds like you just gradually lost performance as stuff was added over
time --- windoze is known for that,

To counter that:

1) Keep C: small and lean
2) Shrink SR and especially web cache allocations
3) Avoid multiple user accounts and fast account switching

the more software you have the slower it runs.

See http://cquirke.mvps.org/9x/software.htm - I wrote it long ago, but
it still applies. If your software is not running, and is not on C:,
then there's no adverse impact at all. if you have "one big C:", then
yes; *everything* on the HD slows down the PC to some extent.

A clean install would probably work wonders

A clean install is maintenance failure, not maintenance.

Never turn your back on an installer program