Win2000 booting and running slow

[Sherwin Dubren]

Admittedly, I am trying to push my old system by running Windows 2000 on
it. It has a pentium 166 MHz cpu and 96 Meg of ram. Things I have
already checked are: cleaning internet cache and cookies, defragging
disk
drives, turning Norton Anti-Virus off/on, and playing with the swap size
areas of the various logical drives. Nothing helps. I am not running
any
big jobs in background, and don't see any cpu hogs from task manager
after
it finally boots. It loads programs slowly, as well. Am I missing
something. It seems like at one time, the system was running faster. I
suspect the wrong size swap areas. I also have my system loaded on
logical drive 'H' instead of 'C'(hasn't enough room for system stuff).
Also, I have two disc drives with 'H' as the second drive. If the
second
drive is not the 'master' drive, could this be the problem?

Sherwin Dubren

 

[Josef Stalin]

Admittedly, I am trying to push my old system by running Windows 2000 on
it. It has a pentium 166 MHz cpu and 96 Meg of ram. Things I have
already checked are: cleaning internet cache and cookies, defragging
disk
drives, turning Norton Anti-Virus off/on, and playing with the swap size
areas of the various logical drives. Nothing helps. I am not running
any
big jobs in background, and don't see any cpu hogs from task manager
after
it finally boots. It loads programs slowly, as well. Am I missing
something. It seems like at one time, the system was running faster. I
suspect the wrong size swap areas. I also have my system loaded on
logical drive 'H' instead of 'C'(hasn't enough room for system stuff).
Also, I have two disc drives with 'H' as the second drive. If the
second
drive is not the 'master' drive, could this be the problem?

Sherwin Dubren

96MB of RAM? Surely you jest? I have a 433MHz machine which I thought was
quite slow until I added an additional 512RAM so that it now has 768MB. Now
it's quite the screamer. I don't know if it's cost efficient for you to
upgrade a 133MHz machine but I would bring the RAM up to at least 512MB if
that's the route you want to take. Also, what's the RPM of your hard disk.
I replaced my slow hard disk with a much faster hard disk and got quite the
performance boost there too. If you do buy new memory, the memory *may* be
compatible with a new computer so there's no loss.

Uncle Josef

 

[Guest]

is this server or pro? the min req for pro are 166 mhz and 64 megs of ram , with 128 suggested, those are the minimums. so if you use the minimums you get the minimum. if its server i'm supprised it did the install, by a new mobo. if it's server, shut down all non essential services, ie: dhcp, dns, etc. that will help