Need a slowdown program

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Exray

When I try to "ask for assistance" under Win XP, I get messages that "a
program could not start". This is not an uncommon problem, judging from the
number of times people have asked about it on newsgroups, but aside from
solutions that start with fdisk/format, there aren't all that many answers.

I'd like to debug what's going on, but like most modern computers, mine is
so damned fast that things like error messages just appear while dozens of
files are being found, opened, read, and closed, and hundreds or thousands
of registry accesses are being made.

What I would love to have would be a simple application that, in essence,
eats cycles and slows the machine. It would have a little slider bar that
essentially would slow the machine to a horrible crawl at one extreme and
would let the machine blast away as normal at the other extreme. Does any
such or similar exist for the NT/2K/XP world?

Thank you
 
oops....found one myself....http://www.the-underdogs.org/tools/turbo.zip

Exray wrote:
| | When I try to "ask for assistance" under Win XP, I get messages
| | that "a program could not start". This is not an uncommon problem,
| | judging from the number of times people have asked about it on
| | newsgroups, but aside from solutions that start with fdisk/format,
| | there aren't all that many answers.
| |
| | I'd like to debug what's going on, but like most modern computers,
| | mine is so damned fast that things like error messages just appear
| | while dozens of files are being found, opened, read, and closed,
| | and hundreds or thousands of registry accesses are being made.
| |
| | What I would love to have would be a simple application that, in
| | essence, eats cycles and slows the machine. It would have a little
| | slider bar that essentially would slow the machine to a horrible
| | crawl at one extreme and would let the machine blast away as normal
| | at the other extreme. Does any such or similar exist for the
| | NT/2K/XP world?
| |
| | Thank you
 
Why not just run a vcheck of your hd, that should slow 'er
down somewhat...

br1ght
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| When I try to "ask for assistance" under Win XP, I get
messages that "a
| program could not start". This is not an uncommon
problem, judging from the
| number of times people have asked about it on newsgroups,
but aside from
| solutions that start with fdisk/format, there aren't all
that many answers.
|
| I'd like to debug what's going on, but like most modern
computers, mine is
| so damned fast that things like error messages just appear
while dozens of
| files are being found, opened, read, and closed, and
hundreds or thousands
| of registry accesses are being made.
|
| What I would love to have would be a simple application
that, in essence,
| eats cycles and slows the machine. It would have a little
slider bar that
| essentially would slow the machine to a horrible crawl at
one extreme and
| would let the machine blast away as normal at the other
extreme. Does any
| such or similar exist for the NT/2K/XP world?
|
| Thank you
|
|
 
When I try to "ask for assistance" under Win XP, I get messages that "a
program could not start". This is not an uncommon problem, judging from the
number of times people have asked about it on newsgroups, but aside from
solutions that start with fdisk/format, there aren't all that many answers.

I'd like to debug what's going on, but like most modern computers, mine is
so damned fast that things like error messages just appear while dozens of
files are being found, opened, read, and closed, and hundreds or thousands
of registry accesses are being made.

What I would love to have would be a simple application that, in essence,
eats cycles and slows the machine. It would have a little slider bar that
essentially would slow the machine to a horrible crawl at one extreme and
would let the machine blast away as normal at the other extreme. Does any
such or similar exist for the NT/2K/XP world?

Thank you
Click to expand...

I had a small called bootlog analyzer or something like
that. It was set to run at boot time in 9x, ME, etc. It
would record every process loaded along with the time
required. It would also log load failures which can be a
big help. I found that sometimes it would try to load a
long gone app for several seconds. It was only a matter of
searching the .ini files or registry for the load commands
to delete them. bla is read with a text editor which makes
it easy to search.

http://www.vision4.dial.pipex.com/

I believe XP, it can be set to log the boot sequence
generating a bootlog.txt file like bla. I found the
following searching the help and support panel:

Enable Boot Logging

Starts while logging all the drivers and services that were
loaded (or not loaded) by the system to a file. This file is
called ntbtlog.txt and it is located in the %windir%
directory. Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, and Safe
Mode with Command Prompt add to the boot log a list of all
the drivers and services that are loaded. The boot log is
useful in determining the exact cause of system startup
problems.
 
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