After SP2 installation... ?

[chicagofan]

So far all that has happened is the pc would not awake from "Stand By"
for the first time; and it seems to take twice as long to start up and
shut down, as it did before SP2.

Any simple things to check on these changes? Should I disable the
Windows firewall, if I am using CA's EZ Trust[or any other firewall]?
Could that be why it is slower?
bj

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Restart in Safe Mode, do a disk clean up, defrag the drive.

Clean out your pre-fetch folder:
a.. Open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete
files, reboot. It is recommended that you do this every month

Start > Run > type in: "msconfig" without quotes > startup (tab), uncheck
any unnecessary programs that might be starting up with the system and
restart.

Andre

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

You will find useful advice here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=windowsxpsp2
and here: (888) SP2HELP or (888) 772-4357.

 

[MR]

you said this::
Clean out your pre-fetch folder:

a.. Open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete
files, reboot. It is recommended that you do this every month

What are all those files in there that I see and are they safe to delete???
What should I not delete in there- I dont want to delete stuff there that I
will regret later. thanks

Restart in Safe Mode, do a disk clean up, defrag the drive.

Start > Run > type in: "msconfig" without quotes > startup (tab),

uncheck
any unnecessary programs that might be starting up with the system and
restart.

Andre

So far all that has happened is the pc would not awake from "Stand By" for
the first time; and it seems to take twice as long to start up and shut
down, as it did before SP2.

Any simple things to check on these changes? Should I disable the Windows
firewall, if I am using CA's EZ Trust[or any other firewall]? Could that
be why it is slower?
bj