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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. :-) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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, |
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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. |
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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 . . . (; :-) |
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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 |
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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/ |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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