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I've noticed a slowing down on a Dell Workstation with dual 300MHz
processors and 256MB of RAM running NT 4.0 sp5. I installed the OS from
scratch myself about 1.5 to 2 years ago. Is this OS decay a real thing
and if so what causes it or can prevent it? I've got Diskeeper
installed to automatically defrag the HD and I do other periodic
preventive maintenance to it as well.
I suspect that key OS files get slightly corrupted and cause minor
flakiness. I've seen a similar kind of OS decay on Macintoshes too!
Sometimes you just have to reboot from a Mac OS CD, trash the system
suitcase and finder and reinstall the OS. Other times I have done a
backup and then reformatted the HD and then a full install or a
reinstall of the whole system folder.
On the PC above I tried reinstalling sp5 but that didn't seem to do any
good. I know there's a sp6 out for NT4 but I didn't have it at the time
and still haven't bothered to download it.
> Curtis Wilcox wrote:
>
> Use performance monitoring to log various things including CPU use and
> pagefile use.
>
> You haven't described the machine. What's the processor, the RAM, etc.? Was
> Win2k clean installed or was it an upgrade (if an upgrade, from what)?
> >Mark Schaefer wrote:
> >I've installed Windows 2000 Pro on a Dell Desktop in early September, and
> >added SR-1.
> >
> >Lately the entire system is slowing down too much to be acceptable.
> >
> >Office 2000, QuickBooks Pro, IE 5.5, 56K modem access to Internet, that kind
> >of stuff is on machine.
> >
> >I've defragged, and scan disked etc. But no change.
> >
> >(Opening a folder from My Computer can take 6 or 7 seconds to open it up,
> >even tho the hard drive light starts the moment you click the folder.)
> >
> >Any advice? Other than reinstalling the OS...
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