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Breaking XP into its fastest form
I'm using a program called Quemu to run a virtual machine on another computer of mine. The computer I'm using this on is slow and has a lot of admin locks on it. I've gotten a copy of Windows XP to ...
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Is the XP VMM a bottleneck on a multi core machine?
I have a dual Xeon hex core machine running an IO intensive application. (WinXP 32) I am seeing a hardware driver (1/2 user mode, 1/2 kernel, streaming data) that is using 6k delta page faults per ...
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Disk cache: Preventing one process from grinding my machine to a halt?
I'm trying to run a very long and slow (but important) background process on my computer. It took all weekend and is still running.
The problem is that this process scans dozens of GBs of disk files (...
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Slow computer processing
I run a 1.66 Ghz Duo Core with 512 RAM. I had rebuilt my OS about a month ago, started it as Windows XP SP2. then I updated it to Windows XP SP3 and installed all the latest updates about 90 of them. ...
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Computer temporarily unresponsive at start-up after June Windows Update
I've noticed that since I installed the monthly Windows XP Updates on Tue 14 June 2011, my PC is temporarily unresponsive on start-up, say for a minute or two. Afterwards, the problem goes away (...
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Lots of disk I/O despite free RAM
I have a windows XP installation on a A7N8x machine with an Athlon XP processor and 1GB of RAM. I'm using this as a development machine with just Firefox/Chrome (usually a 10-15 tabs open) and Eclipse ...
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Coming out of standby sometimes my XP SP3 machine "stutters" with high CPU
I've got an XP SP3 machine with an odd problem when coming out of standby sometimes. After starting back up the machine will rhythmically stutter at a fixed interval with one of my four cores pegged ...
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Major HDD slowdown after hot swap of another drive
Earlier I inserted a SATA drive into a simple one drive backplane I have. After a "detect hardware changes" the drive appeared, and worked correctly. Later, I removed it.
Since that time, my ...
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Why does my guest virtual machine keep freezing?
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In the past when my guest VM froze, I looked at windows task manager and saw very little ram. This led me to conclude "the host put the VM out of physical memory and into virtual memory (...
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Does changing Windows XP theme to classic enhance performance?
A lot of my colleagues and friends who are still using Windows XP use the Windows Classic theme (i.e. the Win98-like theme, unlike the XP theme). Some of them just like it, but some others say that ...
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Fonts cause of performance issues?
I have the dubious honor of cleaning up my father in law's malware infested laptop. I think I almost have the malware issue solved, and now I am turning my attention to general performance. Do you ...
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Ways to reduce the disk size of Windows XP
According to Microsoft's documentation an installation of XP SP3 peaks at 1.5GB
However, in my case the actual size of C:\WINDOWS is 12 GB, amounting to a ten-fold difference.
Neither CCleaner nor ...
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Why is access to my web site is slow for me but fast for other visitors? My access to other sites is fast
I have a single Windows XP laptop and my site is on on an external shared host.
Other visitors to my site all say that it loads fast. But when I try to access it from my laptop, the first page ...
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Work Desktop is extremely slow, can't figure out why [duplicate]
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What are the first steps for diagnosing a slow machine?
So I received this HP Desktop at work, running WindowsXP SP3, specs are good enough for XP, with a good video card:
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How to upgrade, if at all
I have a Dell Dimension E510 running Windows XP. Its most important gaming specs are:
Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz CPU
1 GB of RAM (with a max of 4 GB)
ATI Radeon X300 with 128 MB
Typically I enjoy ...
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