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After sp2, Desktop icons take a long time to appear
Hello all.
I installed SP2 (for xp pro). A problem that I am running into is that after my desktop appear, it is taking almost a minute for the icon on the desk top to appear. This was not happening before SP2. Any ideas? Thanks All |
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After sp2, Desktop icons take a long time to appear
i am getting the same thing
but i guess i am more patient so as long as everything else works- excpet i am having problems with my norton firewall 2003, i will just live with it robin "Rob" wrote in message ... Hello all. I installed SP2 (for xp pro). A problem that I am running into is that after my desktop appear, it is taking almost a minute for the icon on the desk top to appear. This was not happening before SP2. Any ideas? Thanks All |
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After sp2, Desktop icons take a long time to appear
If stuff is running slower after SP2 installation then run defrag as SP2 is a
messy install so it might initially affect performance "robin" wrote: i am getting the same thing but i guess i am more patient so as long as everything else works- excpet i am having problems with my norton firewall 2003, i will just live with it robin "Rob" wrote in message ... Hello all. I installed SP2 (for xp pro). A problem that I am running into is that after my desktop appear, it is taking almost a minute for the icon on the desk top to appear. This was not happening before SP2. Any ideas? Thanks All |
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After sp2, Desktop icons take a long time to appear
backup, Defrag your disk dive,
reboot three times about 30 min appart, let it run for 24 hours, reboot, let run for 24 hours, the next reboot will be faster if not before this one, SJ -----Original Message----- Hello all. I installed SP2 (for xp pro). A problem that I am running into is that after my desktop appear, it is taking almost a minute for the icon on the desk top to appear. This was not happening before SP2. Any ideas? Thanks All . |
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After sp2, Desktop icons take a long time to appear
NFW 2003 is a pig of a program and will add to the
startup time on slower cpu's and low memeory. On older p/c I would recommend a simpler fire wall, acually a combo, WFW with ZoneAlarm in the exception list. Best of both worlds, and free. (But I would get the pro version if you like it.) SJ -----Original Message----- i am getting the same thing but i guess i am more patient so as long as everything else works- excpet i am having problems with my norton firewall 2003, i will just live with it robin "Rob" wrote in message ... Hello all. I installed SP2 (for xp pro). A problem that I am running into is that after my desktop appear, it is taking almost a minute for the icon on the desk top to appear. This was not happening before SP2. Any ideas? Thanks All . |
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After sp2, Desktop icons take a long time to appear
I saw the same thing on my laptop and desktop. However, after several
power-offs and power-ons (I turn my machines off when I'm not going to be using them for awhile), things sped up considerably. I beleve that XP "learns" what you use and "pre-fetches" it at initial load and/or relocates stuff on your HDD. Anyway, see if thing get better with subsequent reboots. Hope this helps, Harvey Rob wrote: Hello all. I installed SP2 (for xp pro). A problem that I am running into is that after my desktop appear, it is taking almost a minute for the icon on the desk top to appear. This was not happening before SP2. Any ideas? Thanks All |
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After sp2, Desktop icons take a long time to appear
Rob wrote:
Hello all. I installed SP2 (for xp pro). A problem that I am running into is that after my desktop appear, it is taking almost a minute for the icon on the desk top to appear. This was not happening before SP2. Any ideas? Thanks All If after defragging and rebooting several times it still takes a long time to load the desk top, then check to see if any of the start up programs are causing the problem. Use Msconfig and uncheck them one at a time. Sometimes you need to uninstall and reinstall the culprit. Here are some good links on how to do this troubleshooting: How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560 How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434 |
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