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by p. dickason, cne, mcse, cca
Windows XP is sluggish for no apparent reason. :) First off all lets turn off all the crap. Right click my computer and go into properties. Select the advanced tab, then settings under performance. Select Adjust for best performance. This willturn off all of the nicey-nicey gee whiz video stuff which does nothing but slow down the system. Keep in mind that pc3270 and notes are both hogs but sounds like you have the system to handle it. You never said what the processor is. I'm assuming this is a new computer but if its something like a 500mhz processor, it would be like running win9x on a 486. Another thing that would slow down your computer is if you have DNS misconfigured. If your on a win2k network, make sure your primary and secondary dns servers point to your local dns servers and not the ISP's dns server. Otherwise it would have to use wins to find stuff and that would be pretty ugly. Make sure your local dns servers have forwarders configured so you can browse theweb. Hope this helps.
Pete
PS...I've also seen trend micro's pccillin slow down XP too.
by been there
by tim.doyle
Virus checkers are worth the performance hit, provided you keep the signature file updated of course. I wouldn't remove or disable anti-virus.
Check down in your system tray and see whats down there. If its a new PC out of the box and came pre-loaded with the usual crap they give you these days there's probably quite a bit of junk you never use thats sucking up your resources. Disable programs like AOL tray icon, DAD, any fax programs, screen resolution things, NIC controllers, etc. You can do this in the system tray or run msconfig and uncheck things from the startup tab (probably the safest bet because you can reverse it if you messed something up).
Turning off the visualizations is an excellent idea too.
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