TSGL: Dell Dimension - too slow

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi Don,

I've been told meanwhile that the main drive of that Dell has been 
defragged recently.

The problem anyway (or most of it) seems gone after I changed the bios 
settings for drives that hadn't been installed. Switched from 'Auto' to 
'not installed' or similar. Now bootup ist FAAAAST: it's now down to 25 
% of the 3 minutes it took before - 45 seconds!

Thanks for your continued support and great ideas

Tilman

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
Von: "Don Penlington" <deepend at tpg.com.au>
An: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2006 03:12
Betreff: Re: TSGL: Dell Dimension - too slow


> 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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