re: Tip for restoring a sluggish computer Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 2:23 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by NigelHH (1325 messages posted) That is certainly somtehing to check. However, a warning about disabling stuff using msconfig. I had an XP PC that was running so... slow .... it would take over a minute to list the contents of the Windows folder in explorer. I tried any number of things, including disabling stuff in msconfig. I must have disabled one thing too many, as the next boot the OS said it needed activation. So I activated it. (or so I thought, as the process reported that it was successful). I ended up with a PC that permanently had a new graphic image on the Welcome screen saying that it was out of the grace period, and it would request activation on every boot. Nothing I could do would fix this, (not even a system restore to a point BEFORE), so I installed XP afresh, and the PC then "went like a bought one"... So beware getting too keen with msconfig.... Written in response to: Tip for restoring a sluggish computer (normanw: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 9:32 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Tip for restoring a sluggish computer (normanw: Tue, Mar 17, 2009, 9:32 pm) re: Tip for restoring a sluggish computer (MartinM: Wed, Mar 18, 2009, 3:12 am) re: Tip for restoring a sluggish computer (normanw: Wed, Mar 18, 2009, 3:22 am) re: Tip for restoring a sluggish computer (NigelHH: Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 2:23 pm) re: Tip for restoring a sluggish computer (vishu: Sun, Mar 22, 2009, 9:46 am) re: Tip for restoring a sluggish computer (normanw: Sun, Mar 22, 2009, 7:12 pm) Footnote ... (normanw: Fri, Aug 7, 2009, 6:50 pm) re: startup and shutdown problems (Gerri: Wed, Aug 26, 2009, 8:20 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum