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Home > Forums > Desktop Software > PC Operating Systems > Microsoft: Windows 2000 Professional Forum

How to imrpove the performance of my workstation !

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wing (TechnicalUser)

31 Aug 00 16:23

Hi ,

I have a Pentium 133MHZ workstation with 64MB of RAM and running win2k pro on it. I don't know why after the installtion of Norton Anti-Virus 2000 (version 6.0), the machine become very slow. So I unintall the NAV 2000 from that machine.

MAy I know besides by doint his, how can I reduce the overhaed of this workstation ?

I am not 100% sure which services I can disbale in the mean time to improve the perforamnce ?

Please advise

MasterRacker (MIS)

1 Sep 00 9:04

Norton's stuff tends to add a lot of overhead. I don't know what else you can do.

You need a faster machine. I wouldn't recommend NT or Win2k on anything less than a 266Mhz machine with 128 MB RAM.

Jeff
masterracker@hotmail.com

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