Kicking XP in the fucking head...
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Kicking XP in the fucking head...
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?
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.
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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?
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?
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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.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.
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
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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...
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And go here and nuke stuff that you don't need.Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Try getting AVG Antivirus and SpybotSD. Some spyware and virii are known to slow down the machine maliciously....
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