Windows Slow after Loading Security Patch.

[Chris Cairns]

I did the critical updates as soon as the recent flaw was announced. Ever
since then my notebook has slowed down quite a bit. I have also heard
complaints from fellow employees that their desktops slowed down as well.
We were running great until just after applying the patch.

I really don't think it's virus related because we run antivirus on all
desktops and servers as well as our email is scanned before it arrives. Our
virus definitions are updated on a daily basis and pushed to the
workstations. We also have a cisco firewall in place. I have also looked
for rougue applications running and can find nothing in particular taking
up cpu or memory.

Anyone else having this problem?

 

[kurttrail]

I did the critical updates as soon as the recent flaw was announced.
Ever since then my notebook has slowed down quite a bit. I have
also heard complaints from fellow employees that their desktops
slowed down as well. We were running great until just after applying
the patch.

I really don't think it's virus related because we run antivirus on
all desktops and servers as well as our email is scanned before it
arrives. Our virus definitions are updated on a daily basis and
pushed to the workstations. We also have a cisco firewall in place.
I have also looked for rougue applications running and can find
nothing in particular taking up cpu or memory.

Anyone else having this problem?

Personally, I suspect the previous IE Culmulative patch released the
week before, but it does seem certain apps are taking longer to open up,
especially MS Office apps, so I wouldn't doubt the NAV has a hand in it.
At home, where I use 2K & AVG, everything seems to be working as normal,
but at work with XP & NAV, it seems to me that Office documents take
about twice as long to open than they did just a couple of weeks ago.
And this is over multiple machines, not just on the machine I use at
work.

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