Comp getting more sluggish...

[ugh]

Hi all,

I'm using an Athlon XP 1600+, 256RAM and an EPOX 8KHA+ with Win2k SP2. I've beginning to experience sluggish performance when booting up the system and also after playing some games like MOHAA and Undying recently. The menus at the Start button pops up quite slowly as if the hard disk has to be accessed quite a number of times. I've set teh swap file to 350MB in a FAT partition and 10MB in the NTFS partition where Win2k is installed.

Anyone has any idea what's going on? BTW, will defragging help? It's been a while... 😀

 

[ojai00]

Yea, try defragging and scanning your disk. Your files may be fragmented, causing the slow performance because the hard disk has to go all over the place to find a file. You can try Scandisk to fix any errors that you may have on your drive. Hope this helps.

 

[sean2002]

Your disk is probably very fragmented. The defragger that comes with windows does not do a complete job on all the files and can't touch the MFT. Try using perfectdisk 2000 as it will defrag all your files in a single pass. The windows defragger and the full version of diskeeper are multi pass defraggers and do not do a very good job.

 

[ugh]

<< Your disk is probably very fragmented. The defragger that comes with windows does not do a complete job on all the files and can't touch the MFT. Try using perfectdisk 2000 as it will defrag all your files in a single pass. The windows defragger and the full version of diskeeper are multi pass defraggers and do not do a very good job. >>



Thanks for the rec. I'll see hwo much speed boost it can get me 😀