Windows XP

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Harry Boardman

I just upgraded from Windows 2000 Pro to Windows XP Pro.
Everything works as expected except every time I try to
expand a folder in any application, including Explor and
Word Pad, it takes from two to three minutes for the
folder to open.

In Excel, I get a message stating "Excel is waiting for
another application to complete an OLE action".

I think there is something running in the background
which is scanning the server or some such thing, but
nothing shows up on the Taskbar.

I ran a virus check and came up clean. I have sufficient
resources for XP (384MB RAM and over 1 GIG free on the
hard drive.

I am using a Dell Latitude C600 laptop which runs at
697MHz.

Any suggestions?
 
XP requires alot of free space on the HDD. For example Defrag will need >15%
of free space.

The System Restore Files build up to a large volume as does internet cache
[temporary internet files]. I should think that you need to run in this
order:

Disk CLeanup - remove all temp files and internet temp files
Disk Defrag - to organise the HDD efficiently and enable it to work faster

With all due respect your configuration is at the lower end of the scale for
XP and will tend to be slow compared with anything at todays specs of >3GHz
CPU, >512Mb RAM, >100Gb HDD.
 
-----Original Message-----
I just upgraded from Windows 2000 Pro to Windows XP Pro.
Everything works as expected except every time I try to
expand a folder in any application, including Explor and
Word Pad, it takes from two to three minutes for the
folder to open.

In Excel, I get a message stating "Excel is waiting for
another application to complete an OLE action".

I think there is something running in the background
which is scanning the server or some such thing, but
nothing shows up on the Taskbar.

I ran a virus check and came up clean. I have sufficient
resources for XP (384MB RAM and over 1 GIG free on the
hard drive.

I am using a Dell Latitude C600 laptop which runs at
697MHz.

Any suggestions?
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Goto Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services
Click to expand...
and scroll down to the Indexing Service. Click on it
disable it and also stop the service if it is running.
Check BlackViper.com to see what other services you might
be able to safely disable.
 
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