Extreme slowdown while working offline in Win2k
Friday, May 13, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dr. Claw
(1 messages posted)
Hello all,
I am a Win2000 Pro user who has made the move to the Win2K series from years of using
Windows 98.
This Windows 2000 install was clean -- the "system" hard drive was reformatted; it
was not an "upgrade" install from Windows 98. While I enjoy the loss of headaches
over the constant memory crunch found in the daily operations of Windows 98, since
moving to Windows 2K I have recieved a few new ones. Here's the first of which:
When working offline in Windows 2000 (i.e. a situation where my cable modem is in
standby mode, or the connection is interrupted so that it is not present), my machine
slows down horribly. I don't run out of memory, yet my CPU is on 100% load during
this period. As I am a novice-intermediate user of this OS, I am unsure if this is
a Windows setting, or a byproduct of one of the programs I am running.
Here are a few details about my home system:
AMD Athlon 750 Mhz processor
(motherboard is ECS K7VZA with BIOS version 3.4b)
384 MB RAM
2 hard drives (20 GB - Win2k/system/programs only, 80GB - storage)
I have upgraded Windows 2000 to Service Pack 4.
one thing I think might be contributing to this problem is the use of Norton System
Works 2005, but I can't tell for sure.
The opening Windows boot sequence used to only take seconds, but now, it takes several
minutes to start up all the programs I've allowed to start up using the msconfig
utility.
As of the last scanning, there are no viruses or any other spyware problems on the
machine (as far as several utilities can tell).
This slowdown becomes especially annoying if my internet connection somehow becomes
interrupted (I use a cable modem).
Is this the nature of Windows 2000, or a problem that can be remedied?
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