Win2000Pro performance issues

[Fingerscan]

Any ideas about how to monitor (and resolve) performance
issues on Win2K professional. My system performance has
slowed considerably of late to the point where opening a
file takes 35 seconds before you get the message that
Nortons antivirus is scanning it, and then another 25
seconds before it opens fully. Sometimes the delay is so
great that the system comes back with the message "File
not found"

There is a hell of a lot of disk activity at the time.
Usually attempting to open the file again works the second
time. I have defragged the disks and still the same issue.

Usually there is only something like 20% cpu utilisation
at the time and about 60% memory utilisation. It seems to
be worse after the last mandatory update was loaded for
Windows and Offfice.

Still 4 gigabytes free space on the C drive.

Any suggestions?

 

[Tommy]

Any ideas about how to monitor (and resolve) performance
issues on Win2K professional. My system performance has
slowed considerably of late to the point where opening a
file takes 35 seconds before you get the message that
Nortons antivirus is scanning it, and then another 25
seconds before it opens fully. Sometimes the delay is so
great that the system comes back with the message "File
not found"

There is a hell of a lot of disk activity at the time.
Usually attempting to open the file again works the second
time. I have defragged the disks and still the same issue.

Usually there is only something like 20% cpu utilisation
at the time and about 60% memory utilisation. It seems to
be worse after the last mandatory update was loaded for
Windows and Offfice.

Still 4 gigabytes free space on the C drive.

Any suggestions?

Something is eating cpu time. ctl alt del, task manager, processes, cpu ;
see what process is eating cpu time. Should do a complete pc cleanup,
chkdsk, av and spybot scan. See my site for links.