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June 20, 2003

Speeding up a Windows system

Speeding up a Windows system: Over the years, my W2K laptop (700 Mhz) has become increasingly slower. It takes longer to start programs and the explorer takes forever to show the files on each drive. Everything seems to have slowed to a crawl. Short of reformatting the whole thing - what can I do? Are there tools available that will tell me why the performance has dropped and what may be the cause?

Posted by Matthew at June 20, 2003 02:39 PM

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Maybe the MFT (Master File Table) is fragmented.

Posted by: Andreas Kuckartz at June 21, 2003 12:21 AM

Try defragmenting.
Try running registry sanity checking programs (e.g. norton)

Try jv16's regcleaner, remove obsolete entries from your registry.

just some ideas.

Posted by: e9 at June 21, 2003 06:40 AM