re: Extreme slowdown while working offline in Win2k
Friday, May 13, 2005 at 4:16 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11847 messages posted)
Dr. Claw
It's hard to say what you have running in the background that's slowing down the
machine but it's a good bet it's Norton junk..
But you can try and run it down with the TaskMrg.
CTRL-ALT-DEL and see what processes is using the CPU to a total of 100% or the biggest
draw on it.
A Note****your CPU should not be over 1% most of the time if that...it may spike
to 100% for just a sec. and then drop back down.
Once you find the item that's using the CPU the most highlight it and end the task
for it.
You can also use this tool to disable it or set it for manual start at boot up.
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Download Service Controller
From:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4313.html
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You said that you are using msconfig, try the tool below for more control of your
startup programs.
download StartUp CPL
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=619
Look for it in your Control Panel
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Also go to
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
to see what program files are ask to do when they are set to run and do run..
On Friday, May 13, 2005 at 1:50 pm, Dr. Claw wrote:
>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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