windows has slowed down to a crawl

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sherwindu

For the past week, my PC has been running slow. No new hardware and I
have
checked out RAM and the Hard Drive. This is on Windows 2000 with SP4.
I
also ran virus checking with Norton and AVG. I have 512 Meg of data on
my
ASUS board with an Athlon 1.33 Gig cpu. I see no new programs in my
startup
list. Is there any way to pin down this problem?

Sherwin
 
Hi:

You can startup your server without 3rd party software and services. In
windows XP you normally use MSconfig command, but this command is not avail.
Solution is to copy from a Windows Xp installation de files msconfig.exe and
msconfig.chm

%SystemRoot%\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\Binaries\msconfig.exe

%SystemRoot%\Help\msconfig.chm

copy to

%SystemRoot%\system32

%SystemRoot%\help

respectively or from the windows XP cd rom:


expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ch_ %systemroot%\help\msconfig.chm

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ex_ %systemroot%\system32\msconfig.exe

(Originally from Ramón Sola [MS MVP])
 
Juan said:
Hi:

You can startup your server without 3rd party software and services. In
windows XP you normally use MSconfig command, but this command is not avail.
Solution is to copy from a Windows Xp installation de files msconfig.exe and
msconfig.chm

%SystemRoot%\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\Binaries\msconfig.exe

%SystemRoot%\Help\msconfig.chm

copy to

%SystemRoot%\system32

%SystemRoot%\help

respectively or from the windows XP cd rom:

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ch_ %systemroot%\help\msconfig.chm

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ex_ %systemroot%\system32\msconfig.exe

(Originally from Ramón Sola [MS MVP])
Click to expand...

Hi Juan,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. However, I am not running Windows XP. I
also am not running a server. Other than that, I don't think your fixes will
work.
I believe you can do the same thing in windows 2000 by booting up into Safe
Mode.
In my case, that made no difference with the PC slowdown.

Sherwin
 
Are you saying in Safe mode the PC is also slow?

msconfig is available here, if you dont have access to a winxp PC
http://www.perfectdrivers.com/howto/msconfig.html


sherwindu said:
Juan said:
Hi:

You can startup your server without 3rd party software and services. In
windows XP you normally use MSconfig command, but this command is not
avail.
Solution is to copy from a Windows Xp installation de files msconfig.exe
and
msconfig.chm

%SystemRoot%\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\Binaries\msconfig.exe

%SystemRoot%\Help\msconfig.chm

copy to

%SystemRoot%\system32

%SystemRoot%\help

respectively or from the windows XP cd rom:

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ch_ %systemroot%\help\msconfig.chm

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ex_ %systemroot%\system32\msconfig.exe

(Originally from Ramón Sola [MS MVP])
Click to expand...

Hi Juan,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. However, I am not running Windows
XP. I
also am not running a server. Other than that, I don't think your fixes
will
work.
I believe you can do the same thing in windows 2000 by booting up into
Safe
Mode.
In my case, that made no difference with the PC slowdown.

Sherwin
Click to expand...
 
Hi:

That´s right, basically what we preten is to isolate the problem, if it is a
3rd party problem or a Ms problem. You boot in normal mode, but without the
3rd party software and services.

--
Un saludo
Juan Perez


DL said:
Are you saying in Safe mode the PC is also slow?

msconfig is available here, if you dont have access to a winxp PC
http://www.perfectdrivers.com/howto/msconfig.html


sherwindu said:
Juan said:
Hi:

You can startup your server without 3rd party software and services. In
windows XP you normally use MSconfig command, but this command is not
avail.
Solution is to copy from a Windows Xp installation de files msconfig.exe
and
msconfig.chm

%SystemRoot%\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\Binaries\msconfig.exe

%SystemRoot%\Help\msconfig.chm

copy to

%SystemRoot%\system32

%SystemRoot%\help

respectively or from the windows XP cd rom:

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ch_ %systemroot%\help\msconfig.chm

expand <x>:\i386\msconfig.ex_ %systemroot%\system32\msconfig.exe

(Originally from Ramón Sola [MS MVP])
Click to expand...

Hi Juan,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. However, I am not running Windows
XP. I
also am not running a server. Other than that, I don't think your fixes
will
work.
I believe you can do the same thing in windows 2000 by booting up into
Safe
Mode.
In my case, that made no difference with the PC slowdown.

Sherwin
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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