davieboy234 said:
Hi I have a few users experiencing the same problem as follows,
when the computer is connected to the network and they try to open any file
ie excel spreadsheet by browsing through explorer it can take up to 2 minutes
to open.
Here are some possibles.
Application Slow-Downs in Windows XP
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/47.htm
Control Panel > Network Connections > Right-click your main network
connection, choose
Properties > Double-click "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" > Click Advanced
button > Select WINS tab.
The solution I've seen recommended and posted in various places is to
remove the check mark beside "Enable LMHOSTS lookup" on the WINS tab
and/or "Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP." People report that the
application slow-downs go away.
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Disable Indexing Services
http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=1335
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html
Indexing services is a small program that hogs HUGE amounts of RAM and
can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system
process indexing and updates lists of the files on your system, so you
can search for them quickly, but it's completley unnecessary.
To disable it, go to the Control Panel and click Add or Remove
Programs. Click the Add/Remove Window Components. Simply untick the
Indexing services and click Next!
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HOW TO: Set Performance Options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308417
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http://www.technobabble.com.au/technobabble/html/tweaks/access.htm
http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=guide&dId=145&dPage=3
Just like Windows 2000, Windows XP still fails to set the DMA mode
correctly for the IDE device designated as the slaves on the primary
IDE and secondary IDE channels. Most CD-ROMS are capable of supporting
DMA mode, but the default in XP is still PIO. Setting it to DMA won't
make your CD-ROM faster, but it will consume less CPU cycles. Here's
how:
Open the Device Manager. One way to do that is to right-click on "My
Computer", select the Hardware tab, and select Device Manager.
Expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and double-click on "Primary IDE
Channel".
Under the "Advanced Settings" tab, check the "Device 1" setting. More
than likely, your current transfer mode is set to PIO.
Set it to "DMA if available".
Repeat the step for the "Secondary IDE Channel" if you have devices
attached to it. Reboot.
Enabling DMA in XP.
http://www.blackmaxpc.com/Guides/DMA.htm
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/foru...9/2002/05/1/885
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/IDE-DMA.asp
http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=7625
http://www.optorite.com/manual/English/manual/dma.htm
Problems enabling DMA in XP.
http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6645
http://www.compguysinc.com/techweb/hardware/dma66.shtml
http://www.windowsxpatoz.com/cgi-bin/performance/index.cgi?answer=1036284156&id=1036282433
If the computer persists on having only PIO after reboot even though
the hard drive is a flashing super-duper ATA133 and transfer mode set
to "DMA if available", then you have to do the following:
Remove the primary device in the device manager and reboot! Voilà, now
the harddrive should be running in DMA mode.
Repeat on the secondary IDE channel if necessary.
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Disable XP support for zip files
http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/022654.html
http://www.technobabble.com.au/technobabble/html/tweaks/access.htm
Windows XP has built-in support for .ZIP files, so that you can view
them as normal folders. However, the system uses a sizeable portion of
resources doing this, so disabling this feature can increase
performance. It's easy to do, you just have to un-register the
zipfldr.dll, by going to Start -> Run... Copy & Paste > regsvr32 /u
zipfldr.dll < , then press Enter. You should see a message telling you
the command was succesfully applied.
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Unknown hard drive activity.
Right click an empty part of your desktop > Properties > Display
Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Desktop Items.
Down the bottom of that screen, uncheck > Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard
every 60 days.
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Try to avoid having a paging file on the same drive as the system
files.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308417
HOW TO: Move the Paging File in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307886
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Clear virtual memory on shutdown
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-02-27.htm
Windows does not normally clear or recreate the page file. On a heavily
used system this can be both a security threat and performance drop.
Enabling this setting will cause Windows to clear the page file
whenever the system is shutdown. This also means shutdown will be
slower.
Classic View
Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy >
Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options.
Category View
Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative
Tools > Local Security Policy > Security Settings > Local Policies >
Security Options.
Scroll down to "Shutdown:
Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile". Right click and select properties then
click "Enabled".
Note: Please note on systems with large amounts of memory, and
therefore large swap-file, this tweak could cause a delay at shutdown
due to the additional time taken to clear the data from the file.
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Auto Delete Temporary Folder
http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=2021
First go into gpedit.msc ( only available in the Pro version of XP )
Start > Run, copy & paste > gpedit.msc & press Enter
Next select -> Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates >
Windows Components > Terminal Services > Temporary Folder
Then right click "Do Not Delete Temp Folder Upon Exit"
Go to properties and hit Disabled.
Now next time Windows puts a temp file in that folder it will
automatically delete it when its done!
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If your computer is NOT a laptop/notebook then you can stop Hibernate.
Hibernation, reserves disk space equal to your RAM.
http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=guide&dId=145&dPage=5
The mysterious hiberfil.sys
http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/hiberfil-sys-xp.html
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System Restore Point
Start > My Computer > right click & select Properties.
Select System Restore & untick > Turn off System Restore on all drives.
Select the drive with the operating system on, click Settings & set it
on Min or higher if you feel more comfortable with the extra backups.
Any other drive or partition, click Settings & tick > Turn off System
Restore on this drive.
