Has anybody experienced this problem??
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Command prompt (Windows XP, SP2, all updates) has become *painfully slow* :( When typing it takes 2 seconds or more for a character to appear, also the commnad prompt window does not move smoothly accross the screen. Anybody ever experienced this?
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Command prompt (Windows XP, SP2, all updates) has become *painfully slow* :( When typing it takes 2 seconds or more for a character to appear, also the commnad prompt window does not move smoothly accross the screen. Anybody ever experienced this?
It sounds like your video acceleration settings have been turned down. Go into Control Panel > Display > Settings tab, click Advanced, go to Troubleshoot tab and move the Hardware Acceleration slider all the way to the right. Typically this setting is turned down automatically when a video driver fault is detected. Consider checking for an updated video driver. Also check that your current video driver is correct for your hardware. Finally, ensure you're using the XP command prompt, cmd.exe, rather than the 16-bit Windows 9x-compatible command.com. cmd.exe is a lot faster. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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It sounds like your video acceleration settings have been turned down. Go into Control Panel > Display > Settings tab, click Advanced, go to Troubleshoot tab and move the Hardware Acceleration slider all the way to the right. Typically this setting is turned down automatically when a video driver fault is detected. Consider checking for an updated video driver. Also check that your current video driver is correct for your hardware. Finally, ensure you're using the XP command prompt, cmd.exe, rather than the 16-bit Windows 9x-compatible command.com. cmd.exe is a lot faster. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
Hmmm, I checked that, but unfortunately that does not seem to be the case :( However, here is some new development. When I restart my machine cmd works fine, so I thought it must be some application causing this and it seems I was right. As soon as I open Word 2003, cmd slows way down, the more documents I open, the slower it gets. Anybody knows why in earth Word would slow down the cmd?
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Hmmm, I checked that, but unfortunately that does not seem to be the case :( However, here is some new development. When I restart my machine cmd works fine, so I thought it must be some application causing this and it seems I was right. As soon as I open Word 2003, cmd slows way down, the more documents I open, the slower it gets. Anybody knows why in earth Word would slow down the cmd?
There are many way that I suggest you to check it: 1. Check the physical memory of your computer. How much your capacity of the physical memory? 2. Check the size of the page file. To check it go to the
PropertyofMy Computer->Advancetab ->Settingbutton underPerformancegroup and Click on theAdvancetab of the appear dialog box. To change the size of the virtual memory, click on theChangebutton. Then set the size for the virtual memory. Or you can move the page file to the other drive to optimize your computer performance. 3. Check the hard ware component for your computer. Whether you have to much device driver to load during the time that your computer start. So it will consume you a lot of memory from your computer. 4. Check thePerformanceunderAdministrative toolto identify the current operation of your computer.
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It sounds like your video acceleration settings have been turned down. Go into Control Panel > Display > Settings tab, click Advanced, go to Troubleshoot tab and move the Hardware Acceleration slider all the way to the right. Typically this setting is turned down automatically when a video driver fault is detected. Consider checking for an updated video driver. Also check that your current video driver is correct for your hardware. Finally, ensure you're using the XP command prompt, cmd.exe, rather than the 16-bit Windows 9x-compatible command.com. cmd.exe is a lot faster. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
Mike, Can the same thing happen just after a fresh upgrade to Win XP SP2? Could not restart but then applied a registry fix for AMD64. Can now restart but was slow to get to login screen. But now I just get a blank screen with my default wallpaper. Ctrl+Alt+Del works to get task manager. Then icons and taskbar appeared after 5-10 mins. All operations very very slow. Then I had to leave for work on Monday morning. Won't be home again until tomorrow night. Kevin