Re: [PCWorks] Computer is too slow
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin-OrpheusComputing.com & ComputersCustomBuilt.com" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:38:57 -0600
By "It did not show anything" I take it you mean no errors,
right? Because it should have shown something, as it what it
was doing.
I posted something about this recently,
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm is back up now
and it tells you all about XP Services.
That's good about Dell, and rare.
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "LarryB"
I used the "run" chkdsk with is kinda Dos I guess. It did not
show anything.
I would not know which services to disable so I won't do
anything there.
There is
serveral service running though.
I did get Dell to send the the software I need and free so that
should
be here tomorrow and the next day.
I'll check on the Service control manager.
thanks
LarryB
K & L Electronics
South Carolina
Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin-OrpheusComputing. com &
ComputersCustomBuilt. com wrote:
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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