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Number : 5012 Date : 2003-07-11 Author : David Connett Subject : Re: *OT* (Off topic) WIN98SE SLOW DOWN Size(KB) : 4
Kam: Well! There goes my weekend! Seriously, Kam, your suggestions are very good. As for the small icons, I have that controlled to be the PCMCIA card Removal; Sound Volume; & Battery Condition. I have been watching Startup in MSCONFIG & the AUTOEXEC.BAT I had not gotten into Sysmon.exe nor the \backup directories. I did acquire, install, & run both AdAdware from LAVASOFT & AVG 6.0 from GRISOFT (separately, of course) and attempted to pick up the XXCOPY /CLONE that I ran (previously) for 37 hours and let it run over night. It appeared to 'lock-up' on a very large file & when I stopped it my report @ 7:30, this morning, the close screen was: (5 file failures - exit code 105; 579 Folders, TD: 343,895,266 Files scanned 11,429, Directories created: 7, Directories Deleted: 1, Action speed: 0.3402 MB/Min, 60,654 Seconds Thanks again. I will report after I check out the Monitor & Backup files and after rerunning the spyware & Virus Scans. D G Connett ----- Original Message ----- From: Kan Yabumoto To: xxcopy@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [xxcopy] *OT* (Off topic) WIN98SE SLOW DOWN D G Connett wrote: > Over the past 3 to 4 weeks I have been experiencing > a SLOW DOWN on my WIN98SE laptop Computer. Everyone's computer is different. When I look at someone else's Windows system, the first thing I look at is the right bottom corner. When I find more than ten little tray icons, the user is either a real guru who knows what he is doing and customizes his system to his ultimate satisfaction, or a relatively naive person who accepts any garbage when an application suggests a quick (or express) install. After months of usage, the computer usually accumulates a lot of tray icons and the user often has no clue as to what are they... Usually, each of them represents a resident program which is running in the background. For example, when you install Norton's AntiVirus (and SystemWork) package, it treats you like an idiot and choose the most idiot-proof settings which often slows down your Pentium 3.06 GHz machine to a cheaper machine like a 800 MHz obsolete system. Before doing any drastic action (e.g., a re-install of Win98), I suggest you strip down most of the tray-icons (uninstall the software which puts the tray icon there). For example, in my opinion, running the AntiVirus scanner at all time is mostly waste of time. One thing which really bothers me with the AntiVirus is that when a file is copied from one place in a drive to another, even though the source file has been repeatedly scanned for virus, the AntiVirus program will open and read the entire file byte-by-byte as soon as the copy job ends and the file closed. It makes more sense if the file has been brought in by download from the Internet or from remote host via LAN. If your system has an Autoexec.bat file, you should look into it and if there are a lot of programs being invoked (which may act like a TSR), you should try commenting them out (put "REM" to the leftmost column of the line). Also, look into the CONFIG.SYS file and if you find a strange DEVICE=... line, you may try running without it. Also, you should check the System monitor tool (C:\windows\sysmon.exe) and keep eye on various system resources. I would not be surprised if it is caused by just one device driver which is polling something in a very inefficient way (as a bug of some sort). Some applications are written in some strange way that hogs the CPU times in an unexpected way. Even my very stable XP-Pro system slows down tremendously when I open up a DOS Box and run Borland's Turbo Debugger (to debug the XXCOPY16.EXE program), the entire system slows down considerably when the Turbo Debugger in some state. I keep eye on my CPU usage on XP using the Task Manager (the Sysmon.exe tool is for the Win9X family only) which let me examine which task is stealing all the CPUtime. I don't know which tool is good for Win 9X to examine the overall CPU-time allotment to various tasks. Here's another approach which removes recently added device drivers. If you have much older versions of the system registry file (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT --- usually a hidden file), you should swap the current one with the older one. Also, you should look into the C:\WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP\ directory, where older sets of key system files are archived for you (RB001.CAB, etc.). A few weeks ago, I posted a technique how to revert to older system registry files: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/message/4887 Kan Yabumoto Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe eMail to: Or to post a message, send eMail to --------------------------------------------------------------- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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