Re: [PCWorks] Computer is too slow
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin-OrpheusComputing.com & ComputersCustomBuilt.com" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:39:15 -0600
Ok I see you've run chkdsk and defrag. Did you try the chkdsk
/p version from pseudo-DOS or just right click the drive in
Windows and go to Properties > Tools then "Error checking"?
The former does it a bit better.
402mb PF usage is high. There's probably even more XP Services
running on this than a regular setup thanks to Dell. Check
into that, and disable all the ones you don't need. You can
usually disable about 20-30 of them. Also, if you haven't, see
what's loading under the Start Up tab in Msconfig. See if
there are any yellow marks in the Device Manager.
Here's some info on "service control manager":
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=34443
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms685150(VS.85).aspx
(That one keeps crashing my PC, so I don't know what's there).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Control_Manager
Put this into a search engine to see others: "service control
manager" error Event Viewer
DHCP isn't just for wireless setups.
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "LarryB"
Thanks Hugh, I have run all the spyware, antivir*s programs I
have and
they have found things but hasn't helped so far. As I mentioned
I have
the startup programs to a bare minimum. I have also run defrag,
and chkdsk.
The Event Viewer shows one error during startup called "service
control
manager" then about 10 "information" tags after the error.
It also shows several DHCP type "warnings" that are probably
due to the
wireless setup.
I have no idea what to do with any of these.
LarryB
K & L Electronics
South Carolina
Hugh Vandervoort wrote:
> There's a MS article here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/northrup_restoreperf.mspx
> In general, this means too many programs loading at startup,
> virus/spyware problems, need to defrag or run chkdsk.
> You might take a look in Event Viewer for disk errors or the
> like, but
> this is usually just a housekeeping task.
> A program like Windows Defender or Spybot will likely be a
> big help.
> Low RAM doesn't really affect startup. but this machine would
> benefit
> enormously from an upgrade.
>
>
>
> LarryB wrote:
>
>>I have a Dell which is a neighbor computer that is very slow
>>on startup.
>>It is a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, 1.6g processor, 798mhz and
>>256 ram.
>>The HD is 33g with 23g free. Running Windows XP with SP2
>>Now it takes 5 plus minutes to load the icons on the desktop
>>and another
>>1 minute for the tray. Then it is ready to go. I have the
>>tray down to
>>AVG anti and fire wall, and Wireless, Audio, and power.
>>I pull up Ctrl+Alt+delete and the performance is CPU 0 to 1%
>>while the
>>PF usage is 402 MB. This is with no applications running.
>>
>>I am presently doing a complete vir*s scan as my first step
>>in trying to
>>speed this computer up. Any help would be appreciated. One
>>question is
>>could it be that 256m of ram is too small? They use OE and IE
>>as their
>>main applications along with QuickBooks 2003.
>>Thanks
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