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I'm running a fresh windowsXP pro install (with SP1a) on my new system and it just won't boot or run at anything resembling the speeds that it should. What recommendations do people have for kicking it in the fucking head so it runs better?

Not enough information.

Details please.

There's a new XP virus going around, I hear. I doubt you have it yet, but then again mine managed to pick one up the second day it was on.

You got a Celeron? Or maybe you can change in "performance" the option to optimize "services".

Right.

System specs:

PIV-2.8c 800mhzFSB
ASUS P4P800pe MoBo
512mb DDR400 RAM
GeForce4 Ti4200
GameTheater XP

I'm running latest XP compatible drivers for them all...

XP, like I said has SP1a.

XP is running slowly, the taskbar can take minutes to refresh and won't respond to clicking half the time, start menu will rarely respond within 30 seconds. Desktop icons are somewhat more reliable, but "My Computer" will often take a LOOOONG time to find all its requisite bits.

Boot up from power-off to ready is in excess of 5 minutes.

Its shitting me. Shitting me to tears.

Everything that I run THROUGH XP is fine, games etc, but windowed/windows programs are horribly slow most of the time too.

Recommendations? Or do you still want more info?

Mayabird wrote:There's a new XP virus going around, I hear. I doubt you have it yet, but then again mine managed to pick one up the second day it was on.

Thats nothing new. Slowing down windows requires less than 100 lines code. I was shocked when I discovered how easily a simple program could hog all of windows resources unintentionaly. If anyone is interested I can post the code for the small program I wrote for slowing down windows to a halt.

Ah, one thing that might be causing it, though people have said it shouldn't is that my HDDs are still FAT32, I'm intending to convert them over the next day or so.

Try getting AVG Antivirus and SpybotSD. Some spyware and virii are known to slow down the machine maliciously....

Defrag your system then see what's running in the background.

Your system specs seem fine.

Question about the drivers: Are they the ones from Microshit, or the OEM's driver files? If possible, stick with the manufacturer drivers.

Actually, Microsoft drivers, while lacking in features and speed, are often much more stable than OEM drivers.

But yes, check to see if you got hit by any viruses and such. FAT32 won't account for your machine being so slow (though you shouldn't be using it anyways).

Have you updated your system via Windows Update? If so, did you install the patch 811493? This one is known to severely slow down the system on some XP installations...

Dahak wrote:Have you updated your system via Windows Update? If so, did you install the patch 811493? This one is known to severely slow down the system on some XP installations...

The relevant information is here and the corrected patch may be downloaded here.

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Try getting AVG Antivirus and SpybotSD. Some spyware and virii are known to slow down the machine maliciously....

And go here and nuke stuff that you don't need.

What speed HDD did you have? When I upgraded to ATA-133 I got a huge speed boost in XP.