slowdown in opening files and popup menu

Posted: 06-30-2003, 11:44 PM
I think you've got a bad case of "computer under-load
syndrome" (I just made that up don't use it anywhere else,
unless you want to sound like an idiot too). Try a test,
bring up the task manager (the easy way is the press
Ctrl+Alt+Delete), then look at the bottom of the window
and see how many processes are running. Then try all this
again after you've gotten on the network. If that number
is huge, then we've found your problem. You see, the more
running processes the more drain on your system's
resources. Not good. And when you're on a network, your
computer running processes usually skyrocket. See if you
can changes the preferences on some programs to stop them
from starting when you boot up. But make sure you don't
need these programs all the time. Or else you might try to
mess with something and the program that's usually there
to handle it, isn't there. Good luck!
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Re: slowdown in opening files and popup menu
Posted: 07-01-2003, 02:34 AM
Check out www.blackviper.com for more information about services and which
ones you can turn off. This should help speed up your system. A nice utility
called XP Smoker may help too. You can get it at http://www.xp-smoker.com/
"Steve" <svanesch@esri.com> wrote in message
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> My machine has picked up a problem, it takes forever to
> open files from Windows file Explorer. Further, it takes
> serveral minutes for the popup menu to appear if you
> right-click on most file types. Some types like .bat
> files work but most do not.
>
> If I close my network connection, all is fine. As soon
> as I put it back on the network it again becomes
> unuseable.
>
> I don't know how this problem started, could have been a
> HotFix I installed, or Messenger, or anything. I have no
> ideas.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve

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slowdown in opening files and popup menu
Posted: 07-01-2003, 04:44 PM
I think my post made it sound like I'm a novice but I've
been using Windows for many years. I believe this
problem is a bug in Office 2002 or something like that.
My company has a Systems group and they could not solve
the problem either.
>-----Original Message-----
>I think you've got a bad case of "computer under-load
>syndrome" (I just made that up don't use it anywhere
else,
>unless you want to sound like an idiot too). Try a test,
>bring up the task manager (the easy way is the press
>Ctrl+Alt+Delete), then look at the bottom of the window
>and see how many processes are running. Then try all
this
>again after you've gotten on the network. If that number
>is huge, then we've found your problem. You see, the
more
>running processes the more drain on your system's
>resources. Not good. And when you're on a network, your
>computer running processes usually skyrocket. See if you
>can changes the preferences on some programs to stop
them
>from starting when you boot up. But make sure you don't
>need these programs all the time. Or else you might try
to
>mess with something and the program that's usually there
>to handle it, isn't there. Good luck!
>.
>
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