XP Pro SP2 slow for one user only

[Nathan Schwam]

My sister's system on a dell has four users plus a guest user. 1mb Ram on a
Dell dimension 8200. The problem is my sister's profile is slow. Painfully
slow. Especially web surfing. Bootup is slow but I have seen worse. The
other users have fine performance. But not my sister. I used CleanUp on
her profile only (leaving the cookies in place) to no avail. I turned off
indexing. No change.

She's not computer savvy, her husband is but he's out of town for 2 months
at a time and he's been unable to find the problem in the past.

Anyone know why only one User would be so slow?

Should I continue the standard procedure of turning off services and
deleting useless programs and turning off stuff that needlessly uses RAM?

I tried to Google this problem but couldn't really find anything quite like
this. Thank you for any advice/pointers.

 

[Nepatsfan]

in message

My sister's system on a dell has four users plus a guest
user. 1mb Ram on a Dell dimension 8200. The problem is my
sister's profile is slow. Painfully slow. Especially web
surfing. Bootup is slow but I have seen worse. The other
users have fine performance. But not my sister. I used
CleanUp on her profile only (leaving the cookies in place)
to no avail. I turned off indexing. No change.

She's not computer savvy, her husband is but he's out of
town for 2 months at a time and he's been unable to find the
problem in the past.

Anyone know why only one User would be so slow?

Should I continue the standard procedure of turning off
services and deleting useless programs and turning off stuff
that needlessly uses RAM?

I tried to Google this problem but couldn't really find
anything quite like this. Thank you for any advice/pointers.

Create a new user account for your sister. Log on with that
account at least once and start copying her data files, things
like the My Documents folder, into the new user accounts folder
in Documents and Settings. Copy here email files and address
book into the new account. Export her favorites from the old
account and import them into the new account. If the
performance it acceptable with the new account, tell her to use
it for a reasonable amount of time before deleting the old
account.

Good luck

Nepatsfan