XP Slowdown?

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Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)
 
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)
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No, MS is not doing anything with XP
 
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?
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Unless both are taking System Restore snapshots (which is triggered by
time), or doing background defragmentation (when idle); I could only guess
that the other 10 VMs are using the CPU.
 
Todd said:
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)
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And what did Task Manager tell you ?

Is the runaway thing a svchost ?

If the OS is WinXP Pro, then this will give
the contents of a svchost. The busy svchost
could be the one with wuauserv in it.

tasklist /svc

HTH,
Paul
 
Todd said:
Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)
Click to expand...

Frankenstein is a vengeful dude . . . (<;
 
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)
Click to expand...


The age is catching up (like most living things) with XP. Perhaps it's
time move on to Windows 8.1 on a new 64 bit machine.
 
Paul said:
And what did Task Manager tell you ?
Is the runaway thing a svchost ?

If the OS is WinXP Pro, then this will give
the contents of a svchost. The busy svchost
could be the one with wuauserv in it.

tasklist /svc

HTH,
Click to expand...
 
The age is catching up (like most living things) with XP. Perhaps it's
time move on to Windows 8.1 on a new 64 bit machine.
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One of my VM's is Frankenstein (w8). Frankie is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.
Swear word have not been created yet to adequately describe it
 
Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

:-)
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One of them today gave me a note at boot up that something
was wrong with my registry and its had to be recovered.
I don't remember the exact message. And this VM is back
to full speed.

I still need to try the other one.
 
One of them today gave me a note at boot up that something
was wrong with my registry and its had to be recovered.
I don't remember the exact message. And this VM is back
to full speed.

I still need to try the other one.
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I just let the other one sit there headless for a day, and
it cleared up too. I wonder if Kaspersky was doing some
kind of update and/or scan
 
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