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Win2000 machines running slow

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by loopyh 1 view

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Within our office we have a couple of High spec notebooks (1GHz, 256M ram) runninng Win2000 we have found that these run very sluggishly on our network (Server is Win NT 4.0 SP6) almost taking twice as long to open files than the Win98 SE machines. Can anybody explain why this is happening, and are there any ways that we can resolve this problem.

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by joe mcglubglub

Take a look at your virus protection software, or the sw that was included with the laptop (i.e. compaq utilities, dell diagnostics, etc).

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by loopyh

All machines have Norton Antivirus 2000 on them, I have been told that disabling the Autoprotect will help with this isuue but i didnt find this to be the case, i will check any utility software when I get a chance. We also thought it was some sort of conflict between Win 2000 and Office 97 which we were still using at the time, but on installing Office 2000 the problem still existed. Although the notebooks are the same model (Sony Vaio FX209K) we did have the same problem with a couple of DellOptiplxes, which we ended up downgrading to Win 98SE to speed them up.

by xanderoth

Check simple things like protocols- are you running a mutli-protocol environment? Try eliminating unused protocols- or adding if your network size permits. Do your computer run Quickbooks 2000? Mas90? Also- simply disabling autoprotect doesnt remove the NAV services- suggest uninstalling temporarily or stopping all NAV services manually just to see if it is Symantec software.

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