xp professional (hog)
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A couple weeks ago I built a new system and put winxp on it. Enough time has passed that I can say the operating system is a total hog. I have tried shutting off restore feature, indexing, unused services, skins, removed start up items. The system is still very slow. The system boots fairly quickly, but the response time during normal usage is just aweful. The system is a 1.8A P4 and has 512 megs of DDR ram. Its very frustrating that my old 300 mhz system running windows 98 rivals this machine. This isnt a tech support forum so I dont expect anyone to try and diagnos my machine. It would be nice to know tho if anyone out there that uses both and can tell me if win2k is any better?
I had only one bad experience (My First ever with OS). I set CG's screen saver as the default screen saver and as usual left my work machine running. When I came back in the morning I found that there was a blue screen. I had no option but to reboot it. It worked ok that time. Then again after 2-3 weeks time I forgot about it and set it again as my default screen saver by mistake. This morning again there was a blue screen. But the machine will no longer boot. So I had to reformat the whole stuff. I like to take adventures so it was not a bad thing for me. The problem seems to be in my display driver. (Oh I would love to say that the problem was in CG's screen saver but looks like it was not the case) My XP works fine except that it hangs mometarily sometime all of a sudden. I have found no cure for it.
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A couple weeks ago I built a new system and put winxp on it. Enough time has passed that I can say the operating system is a total hog. I have tried shutting off restore feature, indexing, unused services, skins, removed start up items. The system is still very slow. The system boots fairly quickly, but the response time during normal usage is just aweful. The system is a 1.8A P4 and has 512 megs of DDR ram. Its very frustrating that my old 300 mhz system running windows 98 rivals this machine. This isnt a tech support forum so I dont expect anyone to try and diagnos my machine. It would be nice to know tho if anyone out there that uses both and can tell me if win2k is any better?
I'm running XP on my main home machine. 2.2ghz w/512mb Ram. I've never had it slow down my system. I installed win2k on my 1gig 512Mb "kick around" machine and it seems slower than XP to me. I also use 2k at work on a 300mhz with 256mb ram X| REALLY SLOW! I've not had any slowdown problems with XP. nay
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After kicking it around on one box for a month or so I converted all my personal use boxes to XP. I love it. I loaded it on my 300mhz P3 256K machine (kick around box), and it actually ran faster after the new OS was installed. Unquestionably a first in my OS upgrade experience. On my Laptop (P3 900mhz/256K), well, it rocks. I love the speed of the new hibernate. At home the family log-in screen works well enough that my 4 year old has her own account, and I don't have to leave her mucking around on my account to play Scoobie-Doo or Magic Schoolbus. On my office box (P4/1.8G/512K Rambus) it's solid as a rock. My only complaint about the OS is that I use Remote Desktop extensively, and after a while it mucks up explorer.exe, forcing me to kill the task and restart it. If you're having that terrible an experience, something has to be wrong. Check out your M/B manufacturer's website and see if there's a bios upgrade, and check to ensure you're running all the proper drivers. David http://www.dundas.com
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I had only one bad experience (My First ever with OS). I set CG's screen saver as the default screen saver and as usual left my work machine running. When I came back in the morning I found that there was a blue screen. I had no option but to reboot it. It worked ok that time. Then again after 2-3 weeks time I forgot about it and set it again as my default screen saver by mistake. This morning again there was a blue screen. But the machine will no longer boot. So I had to reformat the whole stuff. I like to take adventures so it was not a bad thing for me. The problem seems to be in my display driver. (Oh I would love to say that the problem was in CG's screen saver but looks like it was not the case) My XP works fine except that it hangs mometarily sometime all of a sudden. I have found no cure for it.
Rama Krishna wrote: I set CG's screen saver as the default screen saver and as usual left my work machine running. When I came back in the morning I found that there was a blue screen. :omg: Have you tried installing the QFE for GDI+? Its not fully optimized; but it may fix a bug that is showing itself when you let it run for so long. James "Java is free - and worth every penny." - Christian Graus
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Rama Krishna wrote: I set CG's screen saver as the default screen saver and as usual left my work machine running. When I came back in the morning I found that there was a blue screen. :omg: Have you tried installing the QFE for GDI+? Its not fully optimized; but it may fix a bug that is showing itself when you let it run for so long. James "Java is free - and worth every penny." - Christian Graus
Yep that was the first thing I did. Looked like it help at first but actually it didn't.
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A couple weeks ago I built a new system and put winxp on it. Enough time has passed that I can say the operating system is a total hog. I have tried shutting off restore feature, indexing, unused services, skins, removed start up items. The system is still very slow. The system boots fairly quickly, but the response time during normal usage is just aweful. The system is a 1.8A P4 and has 512 megs of DDR ram. Its very frustrating that my old 300 mhz system running windows 98 rivals this machine. This isnt a tech support forum so I dont expect anyone to try and diagnos my machine. It would be nice to know tho if anyone out there that uses both and can tell me if win2k is any better?
I run XP at home on a AMD TBIRD 1.33 GHz machine with 512 PC133 memory X| It seems to run fine. However, after awhile I now get this long pause after the computer boots into windows where I can't double click or run anything and after awhile the problem goes away. However, I now have 10 Copies of Explorer running that I have to now close 9 and some times I get "Not Responding". Hmmm...maybe I do have a problem, now that I think about it. Code4Food ---- "There is no try; only do or do not" -Yoda
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I run XP at home on a AMD TBIRD 1.33 GHz machine with 512 PC133 memory X| It seems to run fine. However, after awhile I now get this long pause after the computer boots into windows where I can't double click or run anything and after awhile the problem goes away. However, I now have 10 Copies of Explorer running that I have to now close 9 and some times I get "Not Responding". Hmmm...maybe I do have a problem, now that I think about it. Code4Food ---- "There is no try; only do or do not" -Yoda
Code4Food wrote: However, after awhile I now get this long pause after the computer boots into windows where I can't double click or run anything and after awhile the problem goes away. Similar to what I am facing. I think it is by design
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Yep that was the first thing I did. Looked like it help at first but actually it didn't.
Hmmm, well I'll throw it on my "server" and see what happens :) Prior to the final update I had the screen saver running for days at a time so it was stable up to that point. Do you know what settings you used? James "Java is free - and worth every penny." - Christian Graus
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Hmmm, well I'll throw it on my "server" and see what happens :) Prior to the final update I had the screen saver running for days at a time so it was stable up to that point. Do you know what settings you used? James "Java is free - and worth every penny." - Christian Graus
James T. Johnson wrote: Do you know what settings you used? I don't remeber exact settings. (It has been a long time) But I was displaying all CPian's images with fading etc. Again I think the problem lies with the display driver. The managed code cannot possibly kill the machine to the point of blue screen. The crash occured in the display driver.
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A couple weeks ago I built a new system and put winxp on it. Enough time has passed that I can say the operating system is a total hog. I have tried shutting off restore feature, indexing, unused services, skins, removed start up items. The system is still very slow. The system boots fairly quickly, but the response time during normal usage is just aweful. The system is a 1.8A P4 and has 512 megs of DDR ram. Its very frustrating that my old 300 mhz system running windows 98 rivals this machine. This isnt a tech support forum so I dont expect anyone to try and diagnos my machine. It would be nice to know tho if anyone out there that uses both and can tell me if win2k is any better?
Most likely driver issues. I have a 700 celeron that runs faster on XP. -:suss:Matt Newman / Windows XP Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179
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A couple weeks ago I built a new system and put winxp on it. Enough time has passed that I can say the operating system is a total hog. I have tried shutting off restore feature, indexing, unused services, skins, removed start up items. The system is still very slow. The system boots fairly quickly, but the response time during normal usage is just aweful. The system is a 1.8A P4 and has 512 megs of DDR ram. Its very frustrating that my old 300 mhz system running windows 98 rivals this machine. This isnt a tech support forum so I dont expect anyone to try and diagnos my machine. It would be nice to know tho if anyone out there that uses both and can tell me if win2k is any better?
In what way is it slower? I first found the video to be damn slow and when I moved and resized windows there was a lot of flicker. Then I found that XP was using a default video driver. Upgrading the video driver did the trick for me Nish
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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After kicking it around on one box for a month or so I converted all my personal use boxes to XP. I love it. I loaded it on my 300mhz P3 256K machine (kick around box), and it actually ran faster after the new OS was installed. Unquestionably a first in my OS upgrade experience. On my Laptop (P3 900mhz/256K), well, it rocks. I love the speed of the new hibernate. At home the family log-in screen works well enough that my 4 year old has her own account, and I don't have to leave her mucking around on my account to play Scoobie-Doo or Magic Schoolbus. On my office box (P4/1.8G/512K Rambus) it's solid as a rock. My only complaint about the OS is that I use Remote Desktop extensively, and after a while it mucks up explorer.exe, forcing me to kill the task and restart it. If you're having that terrible an experience, something has to be wrong. Check out your M/B manufacturer's website and see if there's a bios upgrade, and check to ensure you're running all the proper drivers. David http://www.dundas.com
David Cunningham wrote: my 4 year old has her own account, and I don't have to leave her mucking around on my account to ply Scoobie-Doo or Magic Schoolbus I assume you've installed Visual Studio .NET for her as well? cheers, Chris Maunder "Sometimes everything is deep and philosophical and other times, well it's not so deep or philosophical" - Tom Archer, being philosophical.
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David Cunningham wrote: my 4 year old has her own account, and I don't have to leave her mucking around on my account to ply Scoobie-Doo or Magic Schoolbus I assume you've installed Visual Studio .NET for her as well? cheers, Chris Maunder "Sometimes everything is deep and philosophical and other times, well it's not so deep or philosophical" - Tom Archer, being philosophical.
She says they're teaching Java at her pre-school, so she wanted JBuilder. Go figure. David http://www.dundas.com
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She says they're teaching Java at her pre-school, so she wanted JBuilder. Go figure. David http://www.dundas.com
Kids these days. :rolleyes: cheers, Chris Maunder
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In what way is it slower? I first found the video to be damn slow and when I moved and resized windows there was a lot of flicker. Then I found that XP was using a default video driver. Upgrading the video driver did the trick for me Nish
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
The start menus also have a built in delay before they'r drawn. You can disable that feature in Display settings I believe. Todd Smith
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In what way is it slower? I first found the video to be damn slow and when I moved and resized windows there was a lot of flicker. Then I found that XP was using a default video driver. Upgrading the video driver did the trick for me Nish
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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I run XP at home on a AMD TBIRD 1.33 GHz machine with 512 PC133 memory X| It seems to run fine. However, after awhile I now get this long pause after the computer boots into windows where I can't double click or run anything and after awhile the problem goes away. However, I now have 10 Copies of Explorer running that I have to now close 9 and some times I get "Not Responding". Hmmm...maybe I do have a problem, now that I think about it. Code4Food ---- "There is no try; only do or do not" -Yoda
Oh I have the same problem, clicking on icons will have no effect for a while X| I thought its 'cause of my poor configuration(p3 733 128mb :-( ) Kannan
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The file system and the menus bother me the most. Sometimes if I open a folder with say 12 items inside it will take several seconds for them to display. This happens all the time with control panel.
Mine does that when display large amounts of pictures(in thumbnails)
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Mine does that when display large amounts of pictures(in thumbnails)
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After kicking it around on one box for a month or so I converted all my personal use boxes to XP. I love it. I loaded it on my 300mhz P3 256K machine (kick around box), and it actually ran faster after the new OS was installed. Unquestionably a first in my OS upgrade experience. On my Laptop (P3 900mhz/256K), well, it rocks. I love the speed of the new hibernate. At home the family log-in screen works well enough that my 4 year old has her own account, and I don't have to leave her mucking around on my account to play Scoobie-Doo or Magic Schoolbus. On my office box (P4/1.8G/512K Rambus) it's solid as a rock. My only complaint about the OS is that I use Remote Desktop extensively, and after a while it mucks up explorer.exe, forcing me to kill the task and restart it. If you're having that terrible an experience, something has to be wrong. Check out your M/B manufacturer's website and see if there's a bios upgrade, and check to ensure you're running all the proper drivers. David http://www.dundas.com
David Cunningham wrote: ave her mucking around on my account to play Scoobie-Doo or Magic Schoolbus. Countrary to what Chris may have thought, I find myself wondering why you'd have the Magic Schoolbus on your account anyway... :rolleyes: * Well okay, but the joke does kind of work if you take a deep breath beforehand and read it with your eyes shut.
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