performance affected by My Documents?

[Guest]

Hi,

I've seen various posts where people mention that the 'My documents' folder
can affect performance as it gets bigger. Is this quantifiable at all?
My XP home system has started taking ages for the profile to load. I've
disabled all possible services and used Bootvis.exe, etc - it seems to boot
to the login quite quickly but after login the system is controlled by
something and nothing responds within a practical time. After about 3-5
minutes I can get programs to open reasonably quickly but it still seems
slow. Any recommendations?

Cheers,

Timboi

 

[Burt]

Timboi,
The My Documents folder was an issue with 98 and ME if it became
"bloated",
but according to what I have read recently, XP somewhat cured that problem.
As for your slow boot, this could possibly be contributed to your Virus Scan
program or any other number of items.. Have you run AdAware 6 and/or SpyBot
Search and Destroy... If not, I would suggest you do.. There could be some
spyware
on your unit that could cause this..
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

http://www.safer-networking.org/ The latter is SpyBot Search and
Destroy.

If and when you download these programs, after you install them, you MUST
to the updates before running each of the programs. They are both quite
user
friendly.
HTH,
--
Burt
The Old Alaskan
MVP's listed on TECKPAGE
http://www.cvinternet.net/~smokydog
http://www.cvinternet.net/~smokydog/teckpage.htm

 

[Chuck]

You can always try moving the contents to another folder and see if it makes
a difference.
There are likely the proverbial 101 things that can slow down booting. One
of my pet peves is the size of the registry.
Applications and hardware seem to add far more than ought to be necessary to
the registry. Worse, uninstalls don't always clean up properly.

 

[Guest]

Burt,

Thanks for your reply. I do have Spybot (updated) and have also run the
Cleanup wizard. I was playing about last night and created a new profile and
that seemed to load reasonably quickly so I think the problem is my profile.
The system tray takes a long time to populate itself - I think i'll see if
the new profile improves in the end.

Cheers,

Timboi

 

[Guest]

Burt,

It looks like it was my profile. I created a new profile and this seems to
have resolved the problem somewhat. The other problem is that my computer at
work is a fair bit better than my computer at home (the specs don't look that
different on paper but it seems the performance is quite different).

Cheers,

Timboi