There's probably ghost devices on the scsi bus, and Windows thinks all is well, thus you can rescan and nothing changes. In Safe Mode, go into...
ptsnoop is part of the modem port driver for your PCTel winmodem. It's going to load no matter what you do, unless you take that modem out and...
LOL, me three! :D
Unless "Legacy USB support" is enabled in BIOS, the USB keyboard will ONLY work in Windows, after USB drivers have loaded.
gammaepsilon, my "preoccupation" with free physical memory is ONLY on startup. The more free, the more room for apps, without going to the disk...
You could just mount it, and use BIOS to select the boot drive. Alternatively, you could attempt a 3rd party boot manager, but it may not work,...
You can limit XP to the original 16 IRQ's, providing you don't have devices that take up more than that. Disable com 1 and 2 in BIOS, to free up...
and never will.
Uninstall the whole mess, then reinstall, and select "Custom ", install only the AV.
Thanks for confirming the "update" thing Bill. Nice to see that it just works, the way it should. Now if they could get Partition Magic and Nero...
Actually that's part of what may be slowing down the boot time. Try what Tony has suggested, and see. As for AVG, I really can't say if you'll...
Now that you have AVG, your free RAM is up to 71 meg, from ~5 meg! I'd say that's about a 1400% increase. Nothing (negligable) swap file use, and...
Exactly!
Yes, that's my article :D A swap of 1.8 meg is excellent, very little use at all, however, only having between 2 and 5 meg of free physical ram...
I have also found that doing all the critical updates at once is fine. Just don't bother doing ANY driver updates. If you want a driver update,...
It's in "System" processes, thus it's probably a driver issue. Have you checked modem, sound, and video drivers in particular? It's got to be a...
In general, Windows updates are fine, EXCEPT, EXCEPT! driver updates. I never get them, ever. If you have an NVidia chipset video card, go to...
It's an HP. Have you disabled, uninstalled all the extra software you don't need? Have you tried it with McAfee uninstalled? A NIC is your...
What CPU, motherboard, chipset, and video card? How much RAM? Have you looked at http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm
Dump McAfee, and it will probably be twice as fast. If you have a NIC in that computer, and are using DHCP, that can account for another lengthy...
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