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XP Pro slowdowns

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by pleblanc13, 2005/01/29.

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  1. 2005/01/29
    pleblanc13

    pleblanc13 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi, I have two very strange problems that have developed.

    1. Deleting a file can take up to 60 seconds. For sure, the first delete after bootup will take 60 seconds. Then it takes two seconds until I go a long time (a couple of days) using the machine before trying to delete a file, and then it takes sixty seconds again. I have turned off the indexing.

    2. Shutdown takes forever to go from selecting Start, Turn off Computer, to the dialog that lets you select Restart or Shutdown. That's only if the machine had been left on for a couple of days or more. Otherwise, it seems to shut down normally.

    I have 3/4 GB of RAM and a 2.3GHZ CPU, so resources shouldn't be a problem.

    Space used: 17 out of 37 GB. I've never defragged it in two years.

    I have a sense that the more I use virtual memory (and I do run some memory intensive programs like Eclipse IDE for Java, etc.) the worse the problem gets. I let the system set the virtual memory.

    Does this ring any bells for anybody? Paul
     
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    PeteC

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    If you're running FAT 32 I would defrag soonest. Even if you are running NTFS which is more tolerant of fragmentation I would still suggest a defrag - 2 years is a long time :)

    I ues Diskeeper which is written by the same folk who wrote the defragger for XP - version 9 is the best (and latest) and will defrag as and when required on a 'Set it and Forget it' basis.

    If you have not already done so I would clean up spyware with AdAware and Spybot - see Quicklinks in my sig and it wouldn't harm to run Disk Cleanup, but do not 'Compress old files'.

    You may be well advised to set a fixed size Paging File (Swap File) which will prevent fragmentation. My guess is that your MFT is heavily fragmented too which will not be helping matters - Diskeeper can deal with that on a boot time defrag.
     
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    pleblanc13 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Pete, thanks, I think the fixed size Swap File sounds ((excellent)) as I've noticed that once swapping begins it gets very drawn out, indeed. It's NTFS and it has been forever since I've defragged so this is what I'm going to do tonight.

    The MFT can become fragmented? Holy ****, I thought they buffered it so that fragmentation would never happen as it expanded. I was wrong.

    Thanks, Pete ..... paul
     
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    Also I found a prob with mine! it had slow boot, slow opening of files,ect what I found was that my hard drive Had switch to PIO. unstead of UDMA 5
    Where I found it was in device manager under (ide ata/atapi controlers) primary IDE channel, Right click then properties, click on the advanced settings tab and look to see what mode your running in mine said PIO! which should of been udma 5 To corect correct this I uninstalled the drivers and rebooted! wxppsp2 found the new device and installed the drivers! and told me to reboot! Now all is well back to UDMA 5 It cut my boot time in half! and everything is running fine Just thought it was worth a look
     
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