Serious performance degradation after installing XP Service Pack 2

[Victor Rodrigues]

Hi,

I finally got around to installing XP SP2 and to my complete horror
application performance was signifantly affected after the
installation. In many applications this performance degradation is
manifested by a slow update of the UI. As example hovering the mouse
over a toolbar would take about a second for the button to appear
highlighted, or opening a window with a navigation bar would take about
3-5 seconds to paint the navigation bar groups.

I initially attempted to see what I could do to improve the performance
and disabled the firewall etc but to no avail. So I uninstalled SP2 and
once that was done everything reverted back to normal and the time
taken to perform the actions I mention above is way less than a second.

I have an IBM Thinkpad T42p if that will help.

Look forward to your suggestions.

Regards,

Victor Rodrigues

 

[Guest]

Please see

How to successfully install Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/winxpsp2install.htm

Good Luck!
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How to optimize Windows XP, 2000, ME
for the best performance (Step-by-step Visual Guide):
http://www.fixyourwindows.com

 

[Guest]

P.S. Nice notebook!

 

[Vanguardx]

Hi,

I finally got around to installing XP SP2 and to my complete horror
application performance was signifantly affected after the
installation. In many applications this performance degradation is
manifested by a slow update of the UI. As example hovering the mouse
over a toolbar would take about a second for the button to appear
highlighted, or opening a window with a navigation bar would take
about 3-5 seconds to paint the navigation bar groups.

<snip>

Did a defrag help at all? After all, SP-2 replaced LOTS of files all
over the place.