XP Home Slow Performance

[Guest]

I have found several XP Home PCs with extremely slow performance and an event
viewer with the security section full of success audits. up to 40 per minute.
How do I turn off user audits on XP Home???

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have found several XP Home PCs with extremely slow performance
and an event viewer with the security section full of success
audits. up to 40 per minute. How do I turn off user audits on XP
Home???

I doubt the auditing is slowing your computer down. May want to look into
Spyware/Adware/Trojans/Worms/Viruses and other memory eating/Internet eating
applications.

Event Viewer -> Help -> Contents -> Event Viewer -> How To -> Customize
Event Logs

You do not have the level of control you would have in Windows XP
Professional.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your post. I have mainly noticed this on Dell PCs both laptops and
desktops, and with XP Home. I have cleansed the PCs as much as possible with
MS Antispyware; AVG antivirus; careful hand examination of all the registry's
run and run services items. The PCs appear to be clean but somehow auditing
was turned on and on XP Home there is no secedit.exe or gpedit.exe or local
poilicy editor etc. Symptoms are similar to MS Knowledgebase Article ID :
831905 but the solutions for XP Pro won't work for XP Home. I saw an article
online about using auditpol.exe from the 2000 resource kit to turn off the
extreme auditing.

Best Regards,

Giorgio Torregrosa (Captain Coconut)
PC911.Biz