performance issues

I have Windows XP Professional installed on AMD Athlon XP
2000+ processor, 256MB RAM and ASUS mother board. I also
have following softwares installed:
MS Visusal Studio .Net 2003
MS Office XP
MS SQL Server 2000
AVG 6.0 Anti-virus software

My system is getting teribally slow day by day. I even
formatted C:/ and re-installed XP and all the softwares
hoping it would work fine. It takes hell a lot of time
booting up and lot of time to respond for application
requests. It was not like this earlier.

What should i need to exatract every bit of performance
from system

Hi,

I would say that you need more memory. 256 Mb is not a lot
when you are running .Net, SQL and the O/S.

Memory is very cheap these days !!

Regards,

Tim

>-----Original Message-----
>I have Windows XP Professional installed on AMD Athlon XP
>2000+ processor, 256MB RAM and ASUS mother board. I also
>have following softwares installed:
>MS Visusal Studio .Net 2003
>MS Office XP
>MS SQL Server 2000
>AVG 6.0 Anti-virus software
>
>My system is getting teribally slow day by day. I even
>formatted C:/ and re-installed XP and all the softwares
>hoping it would work fine. It takes hell a lot of time
>booting up and lot of time to respond for application
>requests. It was not like this earlier.
>
>What should i need to exatract every bit of performance
>from system
>.
>

I would like to know how to, restrict the amount of PF
usage. Right know my computer uses around 233MB. I would
like to bring it to 128MB.

Also is there any way that, I can restrict the number of
process that running on my computer.

Check out www.blackviper.com for a complete list of start-up programs/processes and information on the ones that you can safely disable.

Pagefile usage. How much RAM memory is installed?

In general terms 256 mb RAM is the accepted norm in these newsgroups but 512 mb is advocated by many. Most consider the 128 mb minimum specified by Microsoft to be insufficient to achieve an acceptable level of performance but it can be made to work. However, you may have to give up more than you would like.

What hard disk(s) do you have? Are / how are they partitioned? How much free space?

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Hope this helps.

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"rhemanth@mail.smu.edu" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1853e01c42011$5892e010$a601280a@phx.gbl...

> I would like to know how to, restrict the amount of PF
> usage. Right know my computer uses around 233MB. I would
> like to bring it to 128MB.
>
> Also is there any way that, I can restrict the number of
> process that running on my computer.

"rhemanth@mail.smu.edu" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I would like to know how to, restrict the amount of PF
>usage. Right know my computer uses around 233MB. I would
>like to bring it to 128MB.

Why?

There are two ways of doing this:

1. Install more RAM
2. Have fewer applications open at any given time.


Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

I have XP Pro installed on a Toshiba Satellite laptop,
1.8GHz Pentium IV, 256 Mb RAM. It was a clean install
with a new machine. I am running Office, Acrobat, scanner
software, and a few other odds and ends such as a time
clock program. All of the many updates and patches are
installed. I have full administrative rights to the
machine.
XP does some things very well, but in other areas it seems
to have taken a large step backward from previous OS
versions. My chief complaint is that in some operations
it is very slow. It always has been, since the machine
was new. In particular, deleting a file (network or
local) takes up to ten seconds. Also, shut down takes
several minutes, and about one time out of five stops at
the final blue screen.
The other problem with speed occurs especially after the
computer has been inactive and gone on standby. When it
wakes up again, it writes to the hard drive constantly for
at least five minutes. During that time whatever it is
doing to attempt to revive itself consumes system
resources so extensively that it is virtually impossible
to so much as navigate in Windows Explorer or access a
menu in Word. Such operations are very slow, and
attempting them can lead to freezes. I am using the
laptop on AC power most of the time, so power conservation
is not much of an issue.
I have been into msconfig to disable what I recognize as
unnecessary, such as Acrobat Assistant and HP Share-to-
Web, which came with the scanner. I would like to disable
everything I don't need, which leads me to the question of
what is necessary at Startup. Same for Services. I have
disabled the worthless Error Reporting Service, but would
like to disable anything I can that consumes system
resources.
What else can I do to speed up this clunker? All of the
gains in XP are lost because of a few time-consuming,
resource-hogging "features". If I could disable some of
the extra garbage that is going on behind the scenes and
devote the extra processor time to the work I am trying to
do, this could actually be a pretty good OS.
Now if they would only do something about Find.

Poor system performance can be the result of a single problem or a
combination of factors. Listed
below are issues, which you may wish to examine if you are experiencing poor
performance after
the boot process has completed. Some items may help with slow starting of
Windows XP but the
list has not been prepared for tackling that problem. Work through the list
until you achieve an
acceptable result.

Regular and effective housekeeping is essential. What you do and how often
you do it will depend
on how you use your computer. A suggested routine may include:

1. In Outlook Express empty your Deleted Items folder.
2. In Outlook Express run File, Folder, Compact All whilst OFFLINE.
3. Run Disk Cleanup. Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk
Cleanup with
Temporary Internet Files, Offline Web Pages (optional), and Recycle Bin
selected for
deletion. If you have more than one drive / partition you may need to do
this operation for
each drive / partition.
4. Remove Cookies. Start, Control Panel, Internet Options, General, Delete
Cookies.
5. Run Disk Defragmenter.

Check whether you could reduce the number of days the History of sites
visited is retained. Start,
Control Panel, Internet Options, General, History.

Spyware causes many problems. If not installed download Adaware and / or
update Reference file
from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/ and use it to remove
parasites. If Spyware
persists as a problem try a Hosts file.
http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/what_is_hosts.html

Slow performance resulting from insufficient memory, causing over reliance
on virtual memory,
may be especially noticed by those upgrading to Windows XP from an earlier
version of Windows.
Windows XP will run with 64 MB of RAM memory. However, a minimum of 256 MB
is
recommended and many users will recommend 512 MB. You may check on pagefile
(virtual
memory) usage with Page File Monitor for XP:

http://www.dougknox.com/

Check how much free space you have on the hard drive / partition where your
pagefile is located.
You need a minimum of 15% but 20% or more is better.

Check your setting for the Indexing Service. Start, Administrative Tools,
Services, Indexing
Service. The default setting is Manual. Check that it is not running. More
information here:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/serv...dexing_Service

You can have too many programmes running in the background. Close
programmes/windows after
use. Check whether all the programmes loading when Windows is started are
really necessary.
http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm

Check whether you can identify slow performance with a particular programme.
Look in Google to
see whether others have encountered the same problem and found a solution.
http://groups.google.com/

Are there any error messages in Event Viewer? You can access Event Viewer by
selecting Start,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the
error, information
regarding Event ID: and Source Description is important.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FCA

Stourport, Worcs, England
Enquire, plan and execute.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


"Bruce" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:226a301c45d20$100890f0$a501280a@phx.gbl...

> I have XP Pro installed on a Toshiba Satellite laptop,
> 1.8GHz Pentium IV, 256 Mb RAM. It was a clean install
> with a new machine. I am running Office, Acrobat, scanner
> software, and a few other odds and ends such as a time
> clock program. All of the many updates and patches are
> installed. I have full administrative rights to the
> machine.
> XP does some things very well, but in other areas it seems
> to have taken a large step backward from previous OS
> versions. My chief complaint is that in some operations
> it is very slow. It always has been, since the machine
> was new. In particular, deleting a file (network or
> local) takes up to ten seconds. Also, shut down takes
> several minutes, and about one time out of five stops at
> the final blue screen.
> The other problem with speed occurs especially after the
> computer has been inactive and gone on standby. When it
> wakes up again, it writes to the hard drive constantly for
> at least five minutes. During that time whatever it is
> doing to attempt to revive itself consumes system
> resources so extensively that it is virtually impossible
> to so much as navigate in Windows Explorer or access a
> menu in Word. Such operations are very slow, and
> attempting them can lead to freezes. I am using the
> laptop on AC power most of the time, so power conservation
> is not much of an issue.
> I have been into msconfig to disable what I recognize as
> unnecessary, such as Acrobat Assistant and HP Share-to-
> Web, which came with the scanner. I would like to disable
> everything I don't need, which leads me to the question of
> what is necessary at Startup. Same for Services. I have
> disabled the worthless Error Reporting Service, but would
> like to disable anything I can that consumes system
> resources.
> What else can I do to speed up this clunker? All of the
> gains in XP are lost because of a few time-consuming,
> resource-hogging "features". If I could disable some of
> the extra garbage that is going on behind the scenes and
> devote the extra processor time to the work I am trying to
> do, this could actually be a pretty good OS.
> Now if they would only do something about Find.