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I have recently upgraded my system to SP2 of Windows XP Pro, and I'm having a
very strange performance problem. I searched through the newsgroups, but
didn't see anything like this one. The symptoms are that the system is
sluggish, but anything that fiddles with the user interface is extremely
slow. For example, in Windows Explorer, if I click on a menu item, it takes
5 seconds to poplulate and display the menu. If I try to save a web page
from IE, it takes about 6 seconds to bring up the save-as dialog. Dragging a
window is extremely slow, and the window outline takes several seconds to
catch up to the cursor position. Scrolling is similarly slooow.
But a straight compile in Visual Studio seems to proceed just slightly
slower than before. If I bring up the task manager on an idle system, the
process consumes 16 percent of the CPU. I tried a diagnostic boot. The
system is slightly faster but not a lot. The task manager on an idle system
still uses about 13 percent of the CPU. CPU is a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4. I also
tried uninstalling SP2, but the performance problem didn't go away. I'm
stumped as to how to further narrow down what's wrong.
very strange performance problem. I searched through the newsgroups, but
didn't see anything like this one. The symptoms are that the system is
sluggish, but anything that fiddles with the user interface is extremely
slow. For example, in Windows Explorer, if I click on a menu item, it takes
5 seconds to poplulate and display the menu. If I try to save a web page
from IE, it takes about 6 seconds to bring up the save-as dialog. Dragging a
window is extremely slow, and the window outline takes several seconds to
catch up to the cursor position. Scrolling is similarly slooow.
But a straight compile in Visual Studio seems to proceed just slightly
slower than before. If I bring up the task manager on an idle system, the
process consumes 16 percent of the CPU. I tried a diagnostic boot. The
system is slightly faster but not a lot. The task manager on an idle system
still uses about 13 percent of the CPU. CPU is a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4. I also
tried uninstalling SP2, but the performance problem didn't go away. I'm
stumped as to how to further narrow down what's wrong.