TSGL: Dell Dimension - too slow

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi All,

thanks for all the ideas that came my direction  ;-)
Might help me solve the problem.

The machine isn't really "old", it has a Pentium 4 if I'm not mistaken, 
running Win XP SP2 with 1 GB Ram at 2800 GHz I think.

The program I mentioned btw wasn't msconfig or startup inspector, I've 
got half a dozen of these and guess controling the standard startup 
situation isn't the problem here (I'll check this more in depth though).

A special thanks to Don for the hint to Microsoft's Bootvis.exe - I'll 
try to find it on the web and maybe clear up what may happen in the 
background. But I'm aware that clearing up the background startup 
process(es) might not solve the overall slugishness of the machine. It 
still could give me a hint.

Meanwhile I'll continue with the obvious checks & tests, especially with 
defragging, looking for the "High Perfomance Mode" in Bios and checking 
what else may be behind the slow performance.

Thanks again
Tilman

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Von: "Tilman Brandl" <t.brandl.2 at tplus.at>
An: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2006 12:57
Betreff: TSGL: Dell Dimension - too slow


> Hi,
>
> (I'm trying to send this again - my latest message apparently didn't
> make it)
> --------------------
>
> I'm trying to help a friend with her (older) Dell Dimension 2400
> computer. Main problem is a CD-drive that doesn't work, but that's not
> where I need help, I believe.
>
> My question is: What might be Dell-specific reasons for a noticeable
> slow-down on these machines? From what she has hardware-wise her PC
> should be as fast as my own no-name machine, but it isn't !
>
> I'm going to check through all the usual problem zones, like start-up
> files & behaviour, missing or wrong drives and so on. Is there 
> anything
> I should beware of that might be different on Dells than on other
> machines ?
>
> Btw - there was a program mentioned here at some time that would give
> detailed information about what happens during boot & startup. If any 
> of
> you can recall it's name, what was it?
>
> Thanks
> Tilman