XP Slowdown?

[Todd]

Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

 

[philoÂ]

Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

No, MS is not doing anything with XP

 

[JJ]

Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Unless both are taking System Restore snapshots (which is triggered by
time), or doing background defragmentation (when idle); I could only guess
that the other 10 VMs are using the CPU.

 

[Paul]

Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

And what did Task Manager tell you ?

Is the runaway thing a svchost ?

If the OS is WinXP Pro, then this will give
the contents of a svchost. The busy svchost
could be the one with wuauserv in it.

tasklist /svc

HTH,
Paul

 

[Phantom Post]

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

Frankenstein is a vengeful dude . . . (<;

 

[Good Guy]

Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

The age is catching up (like most living things) with XP. Perhaps it's
time move on to Windows 8.1 on a new 64 bit machine.

 

[Hot-Text]

And what did Task Manager tell you ?
Is the runaway thing a svchost ?

If the OS is WinXP Pro, then this will give
the contents of a svchost. The busy svchost
could be the one with wuauserv in it.

tasklist /svc

HTH,

 

[Todd]

the other 10 VMs are using the CPU

I usually only run two at once. Sometimes I
will hit 4.

 

[Todd]

And what did Task Manager tell you ?

When I could finally get in to it, it was around 4%

 

[Todd]

Frankenstein is a vengeful dude . . . (<;

 

[Todd]

The age is catching up (like most living things) with XP. Perhaps it's
time move on to Windows 8.1 on a new 64 bit machine.

One of my VM's is Frankenstein (w8). Frankie is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.
Swear word have not been created yet to adequately describe it

 

[Good Guy]

One of my VM's is Frankenstein (w8). Frankie is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.
Swear word have not been created yet to adequately describe it

You can go to Microsoft HQ and tell them what you think of them:

<http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwi...to-hear-about-the-next-chapter-of-windows-10/>

 

[Todd]

You can go to Microsoft HQ and tell them what you think of them:

<http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwi...to-hear-about-the-next-chapter-of-windows-10/>

Lets hope 10 is better

 

[Todd]

Hi All,

I have two KVM virtual machines running XP-Pro-Sp3.
Suddenly, both a slower than molasses. The rest
of my 10 VM's are find, including the non-XP M$
ones.

Is M$ up to something? Playing hard ball with the
hold outs?

Many thanks,
-T

And it is an aluminum foil hat not a tin foil hat.

One of them today gave me a note at boot up that something
was wrong with my registry and its had to be recovered.
I don't remember the exact message. And this VM is back
to full speed.

I still need to try the other one.

 

[Todd]

One of them today gave me a note at boot up that something
was wrong with my registry and its had to be recovered.
I don't remember the exact message. And this VM is back
to full speed.

I still need to try the other one.

I just let the other one sit there headless for a day, and
it cleared up too. I wonder if Kaspersky was doing some
kind of update and/or scan