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Win2K slowness re-visited 1

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wybnormal

wybnormal

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A while back I posted a question about my WIn2K being just dog slow on cut n'paste and other functions. I read a comment/hint in Windows 2000 mag and doggone if it didnt work. I checked the profiles sizes.. my profile was over 10 meg in size. I backed up favorites and my desktop, blew away the profile, recreated, restored the files and the profile is now under 4 meg and running lickity split. I tried it a second time on my laptop with the same results. I have a profile where certain apps would crash and burn( word pad, word, sniffer) and now with a new profile, they run fine. Apparently something happens when I've had a few crashes and it either ruins the profile or fills it with crap. Not sure which right now.. not that it matters much.

Anyone else had this trouble/fix? thoughts on how to prevent it ? Or we just suck it up and put it down as a "feature" of Win2K?

MikeS
"Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock" Wynn Catlin
 
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All I can offer is that it's not the size of the profile - our users all have profiles of 100-200 MB due to offline mail stores and no troubles.
Heath Racine
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It was in the paper version of July's mag. I dont know when they post it to the web site. It's the "Readers Tips" or something like that. It's in the first 20 pages or so... very near the start of the mag. I dont have it with me so I'm running off memory here. Scary thought!!

MikeS
"Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock" Wynn Catlin
 
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Yes i had a somewhat of a problem. I had a customer who programs who was doing visual basic code in Excel. Somehow the code affected the profile that it make his system slow but once i deleted his profile it worked fine I have no idea what causes it. He has to do this at least once a week and yes I did a fresh install even an fdisk to make sure.
 
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What a great "feature" :-(

BTW- this held true for WIn2K, + SP1 and still holds true for SP2 ( so far)

MikeS
"Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock" Wynn Catlin
 
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This seems ridiculous to have to delete a profile frequently. Surely there is something else to this mystery. Our users sometimes have profiles which are 4-10 GB in size because of the documents they store on their hard drives. (I deal with laptop users mostly.) Many of my users complain about how slow their machines run after a few months of running Win2K. Most of these machines were originally built for 98 or NT4.0. I have one curious user that whose machine crashes once and a while. Of course it never repeats when I have the machine.... I hate it that my users have to endure such poor performance, but I am stumped. The other techs just shrug and trash Microsoft.
 
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clientadmin : Check if he does anything abnormal with the system meaning putting stuff that he is not supposed to. Ask him what does he do before the system just crashes. If it does not happen to you, means he is doing something to make it crash. Hope that helps.
 
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