A
Al Dykes
Someone I do some computer work for asked me to look at his 13 month
old Gateway desktop and find out wht it's so slow.
It's a 2GHz (ISTR) machine with 256MB ram and he's an accountant.
Some gui accouting applications but no games.
when I stared it was dog, dog, slow. I cleaned out the sypware and
defragged and turned off the XP gui crap. Perfectdisk defrag says that
there is no bizarre file fragmenttaion problem.
There is nothing strange in the Event Viewer
This machine has a about 50 processes running that I have not been
able to identify but this guy has a couple printers, a a PDA and
complex business software so lots of them are probably OK. None of
them are sucking CPU cycles or memory.
It's better, but it still takes too many seconds to loaunch MS Word
by itself with plentry of free memory.
He's asked me back. The first thing I'm going to do is try some disk
read-write speed benchmark.
What else can I look for ?
old Gateway desktop and find out wht it's so slow.
It's a 2GHz (ISTR) machine with 256MB ram and he's an accountant.
Some gui accouting applications but no games.
when I stared it was dog, dog, slow. I cleaned out the sypware and
defragged and turned off the XP gui crap. Perfectdisk defrag says that
there is no bizarre file fragmenttaion problem.
There is nothing strange in the Event Viewer
This machine has a about 50 processes running that I have not been
able to identify but this guy has a couple printers, a a PDA and
complex business software so lots of them are probably OK. None of
them are sucking CPU cycles or memory.
It's better, but it still takes too many seconds to loaunch MS Word
by itself with plentry of free memory.
He's asked me back. The first thing I'm going to do is try some disk
read-write speed benchmark.
What else can I look for ?