SP2 - Oh no! Not another version of ME??

As a refugee from ME have been using XP since it came out
so I know it works well, but upon downloading and
installing SP2 things are beginning to look more like ME
again. First issue...I have always left my machine on
24/7 but now when I come back to it in the morning it has
split for the coast. That is, instead of awakening with a
touch of the track ball it only displays the curser and
will not return to operational status. The only way to
get things rolling is to do a re-boot. The slowness of XP
in gemeral to boot is excruciating, but to have to do it
over and over is intolerable. Does anyone know of a fix?

It sounds like you have more problems than a simple fix. First, XP
shouldn't be slow to boot. Second, if you were having the same types of
problems with Millennium, whatever was the cause of your problems then may
still be haunting you. I ran ME on a lot of machines, with little trouble;
people who I found having problems with it were installing junk software,
had incredible spyware problems, had third party junk like Norton's
utilities or other unnecessary stuff, didn't defrag or clean up, and didn't
know that you weren't supposed to believe those internet popups that said
their system may have problems, click here, we will "help"...

Try uninstalling any programs you don't use. Either configure programs to
not start at boot (Quicktime, Real Player, and virtually every other
application that thinks it needs to be running all the time but doesn't).
Disable any auto live updates except Windows. Use AdAware and Spybot Search
and Destroy and get rid of the spyware on your system, do a current virus
check. Clean up temp files with the disk cleanup utility and defragment the
drive. Check your device manager for problem devices. Update drivers for
all your devices including motherboard chipset, and reinstall the latest
version of Directx.

That may or may not fix your problem with waking the machine, but if you're
going to troubleshoot it, you can't have a lot of different things causing
different problems; the fact that you had the problems with ME means that it
may be something you're doing or not doing; XP will hold up longer and
better than ME to abuse, but still needs care.

If that sounds like a lot, or it's beyond repair, maybe a clean install
would be your solution, but you'll still have to keep it in order or you'll
end up with the same thing.

Gary

"twigworker" wrote in message
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As a refugee from ME have been using XP since it came out
so I know it works well, but upon downloading and
installing SP2 things are beginning to look more like ME
again. First issue...I have always left my machine on
24/7 but now when I come back to it in the morning it has
split for the coast. That is, instead of awakening with a
touch of the track ball it only displays the curser and
will not return to operational status. The only way to
get things rolling is to do a re-boot. The slowness of XP
in gemeral to boot is excruciating, but to have to do it
over and over is intolerable. Does anyone know of a fix?

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 16:49:15 -0700, "twigworker"
wrote:

As a refugee from ME have been using XP since it came out
so I know it works well, but upon downloading and
installing SP2 things are beginning to look more like ME
again. First issue...I have always left my machine on
24/7 but now when I come back to it in the morning it has
split for the coast. That is, instead of awakening with a
touch of the track ball it only displays the curser and
will not return to operational status. The only way to
get things rolling is to do a re-boot. The slowness of XP
in gemeral to boot is excruciating, but to have to do it
over and over is intolerable. Does anyone know of a fix?


This may work. Change the boot.ini file from this
/NoExecute=OptIn
To
/NoExecute=AlwaysOff

Greg R

"twigworker" wrote:

As a refugee from ME have been using XP since it came out
so I know it works well, but upon downloading and
installing SP2 things are beginning to look more like ME
again. First issue...I have always left my machine on
24/7 but now when I come back to it in the morning it has
split for the coast. That is, instead of awakening with a
touch of the track ball it only displays the curser and
will not return to operational status. The only way to
get things rolling is to do a re-boot. The slowness of XP
in gemeral to boot is excruciating, but to have to do it
over and over is intolerable. Does anyone know of a fix?

Have you done a thorough spyware checkup on your machine recently?
Try MVP Jim Eshelman's Quick Fix procedure at
http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm

And make certain that your antivirus software is fully up to date,
with the virus definitions not more than a week old, and do a complete
virus scan of your computer. For a double-check do a free online virus
scan at http://housecall.trendmicro.com

If the slow startup persists after doing this checkup then take a look
at what is being loaded at startup.

Use Start - Run - MSCONFIG and go to the Startup tab. Check out every
item listed with http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php to
see what can be safely removed.

Then go to the Services tab and review these items in conjunction with
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm Some services can be
reconfigured and others disabled safely, provided you know what the
consequences are.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."