Troubleshooting Tips

Try to determine where the bottleneck is:

- use the performance monitor to see what resources are being overutilized. Processor or RAM are likely culprits.

- use the task manager also to find processes that are sucking up proc time and memory.

- task manager also tells you all running processes (including TSRs) so there may be some service in the background sucking up resources.

- set a baseline and find out what the box's performance is like over a period of time. This can helpin seeing if there are any scheduled jobs taking up resources.

- defrag your hard drive.

- evaluate your active user processes vs. hardware capability. Despite windows 2000 minimum performance specs, it's practically impossible to do anythinguseful on a low-end (from the perspective of w2k) box. Sometimes there's no getting around getting a more robust box.

Hope that helps -

If nothing seems to work wipe your disk and install W2K and applications again.
If you are tired of doing it too often switch to Apple!

Regards,