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by larrys

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I am looking for an answer to why WIN2000 is so slow after the system has been up, and running for a time. It is eratic in it's speed. One minute it is fine then another it is so slow. My page file is large and I have placed it on another hard disk,I have 256MB memory. There are several others with the same problem and we need some advice and a solution to our problem. I will see the processor peak out to max even when I am not using or doing anything on it, just looking at the performance monitor.

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by maunteljw

What process is taking up your system resources? I have noted that some Win2K boxes end up having a Winlogon process that eats processor time for lunch. After I upgraded them to SP1, I had no further problem. Reguardless what process it is, that is where you should begin to look. Then, track down what that process does and see if there is something wrong with it. Maybe look on Technet on the Microsoft website.

Hope this helps.

by larrys

I have been keeping an eye on the processes to seew which one is the problem. I can find the one on my system which is qbdagent.exe, I end it all is well. Then on the other systems it will very which one is the system hog, but I haven't seen Winlogon to be the hog so far. Thanks I will continue to keep an eye on things.

by maunteljw

What process is taking up your system resources? I have noted that some Win2K boxes end up having a Winlogon process that eats processor time for lunch. After I upgraded them to SP1, I had no further problem. Reguardless what process it is, that is where you should begin to look. Then, track down what that process does and see if there is something wrong with it. Maybe look on Technet on the Microsoft website.

Hope this helps.

by philthegreat

1) The problem may lies with SP1 if you have just upgraded to it.
The best way to cure the disease is to uninstall it and all the components will be fine (my friend has used this method with good result.)
2) If not, check for the softwares which is automatically started when you start the win2000 for example, one needs an internet connection; for MSN messager or Norton Liveupdate.....
stop them from autostart.

by larrys

Very good answer about SP1 yes all systems that I support have SP1. I actualy placed SP1 on to get rid of the problem. It didn't. But I surely will give it a try.

by kgosnell

Roughly one of two things, a voltage drop , or a occupying of one or more necessary caching areas , because if something was filling the memory you would see it. The Voltage drop would slow the processor by decreasing the clock speed as it is vtg dependant, under certain circumstances extranious cable connects can back feed enough vtg to suppress the vtg to the processor clock. I can give you a couple test apps that will determine which caching is being used. First , empty the Temp File , on98SE it is C:\Windows\Temp (Don't worry , Win will tell you which files you can't delete ) , next make a tiny AVI file under 300KB, to use this tr click and select properties, select preview, run it through , this clears the cache and memory of the Video, next do the same for the audio using a Win Wave file as small as possible, run DiskCleanup before using the tests and empty the trash Bin, wait until it slows , and try one of the tests to see which is being utilized. Likely it's the Temp filetoo full but thats only one possibility. Lastly do a deep scan for a Virus\Worm. If you are connected , the also do logging as it may be a cyber Peeping Tom or a Auto Peeper in or outgoing. Luck

by quahsays

hi, regardless of how big your pagefile is, W2k has this habit of moving between RAM and HDD...
i supposed you have already checked out on the fragmentation percentage, and free space? anything below 1gig is a no-no for W2k, keep the free space at least 2gig and above.
so far, my experience when W2k is slow is due to fragmentation and low disk space. other than that, yes, the WinLogon did gave me some problem but it's now gone after I re-installed.
if you have ensured all components are working as they are, then fragmentation is my best bet.

by larrys

What I finaly did was to add memory total at 526mb this sped things up quite a bit. I am very surprised that this gave such an improvement. If it was a large and highly used system ok but for such small usage. In turn from now on I will set all Y2K network Servers or pear to pear systems with a lot of memory.

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