Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 11:35:37 CST 2005
Hi Jon, I know you've already gotten some other tips, but one other thing you also might want to do is to do a diagnostic on the hard drive. When the hard drive on one of my systems died recently it first showed as a terribly slow system. I did the Error check and it speeded it up considerably. Then I did the Error Check with test all sectors and it killed it..... GK On 11/8/05, Jon Tydda <Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all > > I've got a user here who's always complaining about her pc being slow. I > usually tell her to run disk cleanup and defrag, then restart the pc and > it'll be ok, and usually it is. Yesterday however, I ran them, and it was > still just as slow afterwards, so I threw her off it and hit it with > literally everything - deleted all the temp files that disk cleanup doesn't > remove, ran spybot and microsoft anti-spyware, ran a virus scan, emptied all > the cookies and internet objects out of internet explorer, updated as much > software as I could (windows update is blocked by the company firewall, yet > office update isn't...), rebooted it, ran disk cleanup again, then defragged > it three times. > > It's still running very slowly. When you change sheets in excel it stops and > thinks about it for 10-20 seconds, and browsing on the network is horrible. > I'm out of ideas... I've looked at the server, there's nothing untoward > going on there that I can see, and that was only restarted itself on Friday. > I don't think it's a network issue because everyone would be complaining, > wouldn't they? I've certainly not noticed anything slow on the network > unless you're in a folder with 1000+ files. > > The pc in question is a P4 1.7 with 512mb RAM. She's asked for more memory, > but I don't think it's going to help, as the tasks she's asking it to do are > hardly memory intensive. > > Does anyone have any thoughts on what it could be, or what I've missed in > terms of scanning? > > > Jon > > > The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally > privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject > to the legal notice available on request from : webmaster at alcontrol.co.uk > ALcontrol Laboratories is a trading division of ALcontrol UK Limited. > Registered Office: Templeborough House, Mill Close, Rotherham, S60 1BZ. > Registered in England and Wales No 4057291 > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com