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| 47832 | 2002-05-09 01:05:00 | For those of you who remember, I made a post a while back about the continual slowing of my PC on startup and shut down. General performance is the same. It has got even slower! I now wait up to three times the usaul length of time for my machine to boot up and shut down. The PC has slowed a little bit at the 'Windows is loading' flash screen, and significantly once the desktop is diplayed. I have defragged, antivirused, scandisked, disabled all startup items in msconfig, disabled all virus auto protection, emptied temp folders, and still the problem exists. Once the desktop is displayaed, I have to wait an age for all the icons to display (not that many), and then anoth er long time for the cursor to stop working (hourgalss). I cannot open the stat menu, or select icons during this time. It is usually accompanied by a small amount of floppy activity (no disk in drive) and a heck of alot of HD activity. Same deal on shutdown - I am waiting awhile at the desktop, and a little bit more than usual on the windows is shutting down flash screen. Any ideas anyone? Windows XP - current install less than one month old, previous installs did not suffer same fate, and all updates current. Athlon 1200 128Mb Ram Connected to home network via 100Mbs NIC. Hope to speed things up a bit. G P |
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| 47833 | 2002-05-09 01:21:00 | Graham, How essential is the home network? Just to test out the problem, try disabling your NIC from Device Manager, and then restart and see if that makes a difference. Mike. |
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| 47834 | 2002-05-09 01:29:00 | Graham, How essential is the home network? Just to test out the problem, try disabling your NIC from Device Manager, and then restart and see if that makes a difference. Mike. |
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| 47835 | 2002-05-09 01:31:00 | Graham, How essential is the home network? Just to test out the problem, try disabling your NIC from Device Manager, and then restart and see if that makes a difference. Mike. |
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| 47836 | 2002-05-09 01:35:00 | Graham, How essential is the home network? Just to test out the problem, try disabling your NIC from Device Manager, and then restart and see if that makes a difference. Mike. |
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| 47837 | 2002-05-09 03:55:00 | Mate, all I can suggest is a complete re-install. I have a k6-2 500 with 256ram and XP and i'm on the desktop and going in less that a minute from a cold start. Something is very wrong with your current install. (I've kinda tweaked and chopped my windows but.) |
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| 47838 | 2002-05-09 04:55:00 | Hmmm - sorry for the multiposts :( | Guest (0) | ||
| 47839 | 2002-05-09 06:03:00 | Hi Graham, I also suspect your problems linked to your network setup. A known cause of slow start ups and shutdowns with networking, is if you choose to have windows obtain an IP address automatically. Instead do the following, on machine 1 specify an IP address of 192 168 1 1 with a subnet mask of 255 255 255 0 and on machine 2 specify an IP address of 192 168 1 5 with the same subnet mask click OK then reboot, after the first reboot, shutdown then restart things should now be quicker. Alan |
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| 47840 | 2002-05-09 08:52:00 | Hi Graham, I'd use Bootlog Analyser first, just to see what is happening. Just stick it in your search engine, there are hundreds of sites to download it from. Its small and gives you a good idea of what is slowing up your bootup. |
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| 47841 | 2002-05-10 05:41:00 | I have fixed IP addresses. Anyway... I have reinstalled of my Ghost Image (A clean image with no apps loaded, just updates and a few basic preferences) and it has fixed the prob even after reinstalling all old apps. Rod, I will check that prog out - sounds good. Thanks Guys. G P |
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