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by liaor

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My Win2K Professional used to startup relatively fast, but now it is really slow.

The slowdown is just before the logon screen, the point before it displays "Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to logon" (I set it to do that. That is normal.)

The status message says "Applying Security Policy..." and the system does some HD access that is in a pattern.

After a couple of minutes (3~5) (this step usually took at most 1 minute).

I checked the System Event Log and I get Event 2013, which states that "The C: disk is at or near capacity. You may need to delete some files. ".

Now, the funny thing is, my Win2K is on D:, not C:. Also, C: has 1.16 GB of 11.5 GB free. I have no virutal memory allocated to C:

What gives?

Thank you for your help.

liao_r

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by dpalsen

First, this just stinks of a possible virus problem. assuming that's not the issue, you might want to check your virtual memory settings. If it's trying to use drive C, it may be loading something that's REALLY memory intensive.

-Dave

by dpalsen

First, this just stinks of a possible virus problem. assuming that's not the issue, you might want to check your virtual memory settings. If it's trying to use drive C, it may be loading something that's REALLY memory intensive.

-Dave

by cdobbin

Actually kind of a question and an answer.

I have noticed that if I leave a disk in my cd-rom that my win2k machine is very slow to boot, I have verified in the BIOS that the cd-rom is not the first boot device, has anyone else experienced this???
I take it you are using a dual boot setup for win2k to be on the d-drive? You said it was 2k pro, but, this error(event 2013) is caused by a active directory domain controller trying to start the service on a disk with not enough space. Did you see an error message once you logged in?
Check in the event log for error ID:1393 & 428 as well.
Hope this helps.

by bill

Despite the fact that you have 1.1Gb free, it's only about 10% of the drive, I've found W2K to be very 'Unix' like in that it likes a minimum of about 20% free to operate well.

You didn't mention how much space is free on your 'D' drive, (which is your 'boot' drive for W2K right?) the drive letter might be an incorrect reference in that I've also noticed that W2K 'expects' that it's installed on the 'C' drive.

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