Slow performance 1

[claritypc]

I am running windows2000 server SP4 on a Dell Laptop with a 1.8Ghz processor and 512MB RAM

The system performance is quite slow and I am looking for any ideas about the cause of this problem and a way to fix it.

An example of the problem follows: Browsing through the start menu takes one or two seconds to bring up submenus and requires around 20% of the cpu power.

A simple cell copy in excel takes 3 - 5 seconds and requires 100% cpu power.

Any task seems to take a very high % of cpu power. When viewing CPU usage history in windows task manager, any activity causes 100% cpu power then the system drops down to 3 - 7%

Memory usage is around 200MB

Any ideas are appreciated.

Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks

 

[Niksen]

I have tried similar many times, and i have seen bad performance aswell.

One thing is that laptop IDE harddrives is not amongst the fastest. so just paging can burn alot cpu cycles.

Another, server defaults to priorities background processes. you can set this to foreground if need.

run msconfig ( yo can copy this file from xp or 98 )
and remove all unnessesary under startup.

uninstall all windows components not needed.

disable all services not needed, e.g. spool and so on.

remove all makup-crap e.g. shadows on menus and mouse.

update drivers, not least graphics.

run a defragger that can do boot-time defragging and make a boot-time defrag with MFT and pagefile defrag.
then run a normal defrag. the win build-inn is not nearly as good as a "real one". diskeeper is good or the o&o this is espacially important on a laptop.

in taskmanager under view -> select columnes -> select I/O write bytes and I/O read bytes. and watch processes that are read/writing alot. this is a very nice diagnostic trick.

i hope this isnt too banal, best intent.

mvh Nicolai

 

[claritypc]

Thanks for the ideas.

It's looking more like a hardware issue. I think there is something wrong with the processor. It is a speedstep cpu and this feature seems to be not functioning correctly. I'm having the cpu replaced