MY computer slow

[bwarner]

Sometimes accessing the drives on my P4 XP Pro machine are way too slow. When I click on My Computer (or Windows Explorer), it can take up to a couple of minutes to display my drives. It doesn't happen all the time, but too often. I have a similar problem at work with my XP Pro machine there as well. My home PC is connected to a router along with another PC, my office PC is on a Netware network. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Barry

 

[cdogg]

Do steps 3-8 in this FAQ:

faq615-3144


~cdogg
[tab]"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind";
[tab][tab]- Aristotle
[tab][navy]For general rules and guidelines to get better answers, click here:[/navy] faq219-2884

 

[bcastner]

My guess is a WIA issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;819017

 

[cdogg]

oh yes, my bad Bill! I somehow overlooked that it was a drive access problem. I was thinking it was just a general slowness issue.


~cdogg
[tab]"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind";
[tab][tab]- Aristotle
[tab][navy]For general rules and guidelines to get better answers, click here:[/navy] faq219-2884

 

[bcastner]

cdogg, there is no silver bullet to kill this problem.

Some notes from past forum discussions:

. Have you defragged the disks recently?
. Have you cleaned the registry recently?
. If you ever installed PGP Privacy, make certain it is either enabled or uninstalled. Never disabled.
. Roxio/Symantec GoBack can lead to this situation
. If these are not-local drives, but remote shares that are proving slow to browse, make this simple registry edit:

Open the Registry Editor and expand this branch:-

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace

Select this key:- (select the whole folder)

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

Then choose Registry, Export Registry File (to make a backup copy of the key in case you want to restore it), and delete the key.

 

[bcastner]

Last thought: check your virtual memory settings. Let Windows handle them to start with, and read the following as to how to adjust them over time, including utilities that will help:

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

 

[bcastner]

In the interests of completeness:

This makes a big difference:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;819101

 

[bwarner]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I've already made several of the changes and will see how it performs the next few days. I have not ever cleaned the registry - what registry cleaner do you recommend I use?

Barry

 

[bcastner]

bwarner,

The last time this was raised there were several votes for:

. jv16 - It is supposedly possible to find the freeware version still. The 30-day trial version:

http://www.macecraft.com/brief_pt/

. RegVac:

http://www.superwin.com/regvac.htm

. ToniArts Easy Cleaner - freeware:

http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

For novices the RegVac product has some nice features.