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Degrading Performance on W2K Pro

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by jack-of-all-trades

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I have been running along just fine, and always keep my software up-to-date. Starting a week ago, performance has slowed to a crawl. I started removing programs to no avail. The only NEW thing is Norton 2001 everything. Checking the CPU usage shows very little happening. I backed out W2K SPs, and re-upgrade, but no change. I'm thinking about Ghosting to another drive, and starting from scratch, but that's a LOT of work. I need ideas! Thanks --- Brian

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by anne.jan.elsinga

Does this mean that you also have installed the Antivirus software from Norton? Perhaps the scanner scans all files, on all write actions of your computer. This can slow the process.

Perhaps the computer does a scheduled action? Like a scandisk, or a viruscheck.

by jack-of-all-trades

Yes Norton Antivirus is up, but only scans "new files" including e-mail, floppy, and CD. My scheduler is empty.

I checked the Task Manager and it seems strange - but I'm not a real Techy.
Handles=4439 (why so many?)
Threads=271 (seems likea lot, too)
Processes=33 (no clue)

I don't know what Commit Charge (K) numbers should look like, but the total is 111652 not to long after reboot. Memory appears OK (Have 256M). Kernel Memory total is 45900, with 1/3 nonpaged.

I guess i'll deinstall Norton next...
Thanks for the try. Brian

by tuqan

Norton anything is all evading upon any system it is installed on. It just reaches out like a leech attaching itself to everything. You need it's permission to even flush the toilet (empty your recycle bin.) I suggest uninstalling it if you are having performance problems. Ontrack is what I use and it works pretty good for me and is easily customizable unlike Norton. I have suffered no performance depletions\interruptions at all Good Luck.

by jack-of-all-trades

I tried this, but to no avail. At this point, I can say for sure that my problem was one of the hard disks that was slowly "crashing." Replaced drive & reload go it going again.

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