Thread: My MCE 2004 is intolerably slow

Mine did the same when I installed Norton Antivirus.. Since that time, I had
a crash on my pc and I had to reinstall everything now all is fine... maybe
this is stupid, but just save your work, and install MCE again in formatting
everything...



"Nigel Andrews" wrote:

> For some while I have put up with my MCE 2004 being very slow (10 mins to
> boot-up, 1 minute to open a browser window, video stepping and pausing). Now
> the thing has gone ridiculous.
> It takes about 20 mins to boot even into Safe Mode and opening even a DOS
> window takes 2 minutes!
>
> I ran a chkdsk and a defrag a few weeks back but that made no difference to
> the slowness then.
>
> During alll the times I am waiting the disk light is constantly alight.
>
> I can't think what it can be busy doing in all this time.
>
> Can anyone help or suggest an application that will be good at sorting this
> out
>
> Nigel
> P.S. Around the time it first started to slow down I had just upgraded to
> the Computer Associates version of PestPatrol. I am hanging onto their
> support in case they are the fault. But if it is so slow just in Safe Mode I
> don't even think they can be to blame?
> P.P.S I have tried uninstalling PP but the slowness doesn't go away!
>
>
>

sounds like the performance of my Tivo Series2 unit... ;-)


"Nigel Andrews" <nandrews2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OIqMe.9369$6i5.8860@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net...
> For some while I have put up with my MCE 2004 being very slow (10 mins to
> boot-up, 1 minute to open a browser window, video stepping and pausing).
> Now
> the thing has gone ridiculous.
> It takes about 20 mins to boot even into Safe Mode and opening even a DOS
> window takes 2 minutes!
>
> I ran a chkdsk and a defrag a few weeks back but that made no difference
> to
> the slowness then.
>
> During alll the times I am waiting the disk light is constantly alight.
>
> I can't think what it can be busy doing in all this time.
>
> Can anyone help or suggest an application that will be good at sorting
> this
> out
>
> Nigel
> P.S. Around the time it first started to slow down I had just upgraded to
> the Computer Associates version of PestPatrol. I am hanging onto their
> support in case they are the fault. But if it is so slow just in Safe Mode
> I
> don't even think they can be to blame?
> P.P.S I have tried uninstalling PP but the slowness doesn't go away!
>
>