TSGL: Dell Dimension - too slow

[Don Penlington]

Tilman wrote:
>I'll anyway check for hardware problems, haven't done this yet. And
>defragmentation might help a bit too (although from own experience: I've
>never had a drive fragmented in a way that it made a PC slow like this
>one,>>


I agree with you about defrag, unless maybe it's never been defragged.

I've lost this thread a bit, but I assume it's just as slow in Safe 
Mode---which tends to eliminate software and driver probs and points more 
to a corrupt XP installation.

Registry restore usually makes a huge difference, if there are any backups 
available.

Unplug all the hardware peripherals, see if that makes a difference. 
Printers especially can be sources of slowdowns, perhaps something stuck in 
Spooler and looping, or a Lexmark which has been removed but are notorious 
for leaving drivers behind which are difficult to eliminate and which still 
want to load at startup whatever you try to do to remove them. They'll 
interfere with later printers----(I'm battling with one right now on a 
friends computer).

Check Printer properties in Control Panel and Device Manager to make sure 
there aren't any uncompleted printer tasks trying to load.

Don Penlington


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