windows has slowed down to a crawl

[sherwindu]

For the past week, my PC has been running slow. No new hardware and I
have
checked out RAM and the Hard Drive. This is on Windows 2000 with SP4.
I
also ran virus checking with Norton and AVG. I have 512 Meg of data on
my
ASUS board with an Athlon 1.33 Gig cpu. I see no new programs in my
startup
list. Is there any way to pin down this problem?

Sherwin

 

[Juan Perez]

Hi:

You can startup your server without 3rd party software and services. In
windows XP you normally use MSconfig command, but this command is not avail.
Solution is to copy from a Windows Xp installation de files msconfig.exe and
msconfig.chm

%SystemRoot%\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\Binaries\msconfig.exe

%SystemRoot%\Help\msconfig.chm

copy to

%SystemRoot%\system32

%SystemRoot%\help

respectively or from the windows XP cd rom:


expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ch_ %systemroot%\help\msconfig.chm

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ex_ %systemroot%\system32\msconfig.exe

(Originally from Ramón Sola [MS MVP])

 

[sherwindu]

Hi:

You can startup your server without 3rd party software and services. In
windows XP you normally use MSconfig command, but this command is not avail.
Solution is to copy from a Windows Xp installation de files msconfig.exe and
msconfig.chm

%SystemRoot%\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\Binaries\msconfig.exe

%SystemRoot%\Help\msconfig.chm

copy to

%SystemRoot%\system32

%SystemRoot%\help

respectively or from the windows XP cd rom:

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ch_ %systemroot%\help\msconfig.chm

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ex_ %systemroot%\system32\msconfig.exe

(Originally from Ramón Sola [MS MVP])

Hi Juan,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. However, I am not running Windows XP. I
also am not running a server. Other than that, I don't think your fixes will
work.
I believe you can do the same thing in windows 2000 by booting up into Safe
Mode.
In my case, that made no difference with the PC slowdown.

Sherwin

 

[DL]

Are you saying in Safe mode the PC is also slow?

msconfig is available here, if you dont have access to a winxp PC
http://www.perfectdrivers.com/howto/msconfig.html

Hi:

You can startup your server without 3rd party software and services. In
windows XP you normally use MSconfig command, but this command is not
avail.
Solution is to copy from a Windows Xp installation de files msconfig.exe
and
msconfig.chm

%SystemRoot%\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\Binaries\msconfig.exe

%SystemRoot%\Help\msconfig.chm

copy to

%SystemRoot%\system32

%SystemRoot%\help

respectively or from the windows XP cd rom:

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ch_ %systemroot%\help\msconfig.chm

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ex_ %systemroot%\system32\msconfig.exe

(Originally from Ramón Sola [MS MVP])

Hi Juan,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. However, I am not running Windows
XP. I
also am not running a server. Other than that, I don't think your fixes
will
work.
I believe you can do the same thing in windows 2000 by booting up into
Safe
Mode.
In my case, that made no difference with the PC slowdown.

Sherwin

 

[Juan Perez]

Hi:

That´s right, basically what we preten is to isolate the problem, if it is a
3rd party problem or a Ms problem. You boot in normal mode, but without the
3rd party software and services.

--
Un saludo
Juan Perez

Are you saying in Safe mode the PC is also slow?

msconfig is available here, if you dont have access to a winxp PC
http://www.perfectdrivers.com/howto/msconfig.html

Hi:

You can startup your server without 3rd party software and services. In
windows XP you normally use MSconfig command, but this command is not
avail.
Solution is to copy from a Windows Xp installation de files msconfig.exe
and
msconfig.chm

%SystemRoot%\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\Binaries\msconfig.exe

%SystemRoot%\Help\msconfig.chm

copy to

%SystemRoot%\system32

%SystemRoot%\help

respectively or from the windows XP cd rom:

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ch_ %systemroot%\help\msconfig.chm

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ex_ %systemroot%\system32\msconfig.exe

(Originally from Ramón Sola [MS MVP])

Hi Juan,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. However, I am not running Windows
XP. I
also am not running a server. Other than that, I don't think your fixes
will
work.
I believe you can do the same thing in windows 2000 by booting up into
Safe
Mode.
In my case, that made no difference with the PC slowdown.

Sherwin