System *really* slow since I installed SP2

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ross M. Greenberg
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I am not an expert, but I can tell you that you won't get much of a response
from this newsgroup unless you give more details. You refer to your system.
What is the size of your hard drive? How much RAM do you have? You see it is
just possible that you have so little space that the addition of SP2, with
its back up files, may be overloading your system. But it may be something
else. So please tell everyone more about your system. I hope that this will
help someone in this group to help you.
 
In my case it was not SP2 that really slowed things down, it was the latest
version of Java. Once it auto updated, my IE would start about 30 secs after
clicking the icon. Everything else was fine. I went to my Control Panel and
removed Java Update 6 which reverted it back to 5 and I was fine after that.

Depending on if this is what you are experiencing, try that. It is a known
issue.

Sam
 
Ross said:
Launching IE6 is **very** slow! OE, too. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Ross
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How long has it been? It can take several days and 3 or 4 reboots for
it to speed up. First defrag. The boot prefetch will kick in after the
3 rd reboot. It takes several days for the prefetch folder to be
rebuilt. And the in built optimization kicks in every 3 days. After
that defrag again. If the system is still slow after some days try some
clean boot troubleshooting to see what may be hanging up on startup. A
program may need to be uninstalled / reinstalled:

How to troubleshoot by using the System Configuration utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353
 
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