Help! I upgraded to W2K and now my computer is too slow

[Manuel]

:disgust:

I upgraded from W98 SE to 2000 professional in my HP computer and now the thing absolutely crawls! The hard drive grinds all the time as if it's being paged. I had 96MB, I removed the 32MB stick and I added 128MB so now I have 192MB. The processor is a PII 400 Mz. The computer has actually performed better in the past when I had both OS installed and a dual boot set up. I purposely installed 2000 Pro from scratch and reformatted the hard drive. I'm totally confused, the computer should run better but instead it's much worse than before. Please give me some leads into what to look for.
Also, I have another computer in the network that is performing pretty slowly. It's an old slow machine but should do better than it does with win98 SE (it has done before). I'm thinking about re-installing W98 SE again from a formatted hard drive but I don't want the same results as I had with the HP. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Oh yeah, I have done virus scans and check/removed Nimda.

 

[Abzstrak]

read some sites to tweak it, it WILL be slower, deal with it or upgrade your hardware.... or go back to win98

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

This was a fresh install on a Fdisked/formatted drive? If your drive is thrashing all the time, sounds like it is using alot of virtual RAM..192 MB is a good start, but I would recommend no less than 256MB for 2k/XP. 2K will probably run slightly slower than 98SE on your machine, but it shouldn't be THAT noticeable..

 

[dahunan]

Maybe the indexing service is causing a problem?

Turn off indexing
Install the Windows 2000 Service Packs

Your system should be fine

Also, find tip sites that help you with optimizing

Here is one example

 

[puck]

I did something similar. I have a PIII-300 IBM system that was "ok" with win95 and when I upgraded to win2kpro it was noticeably slower, especially the boot time. The hard drive was an old 5.25 ATA33 which sucked, and after spending a little for a 20GB ATA66 drive win2k ran drastically faster. And I didn't even get a new IDE controller! If your HD is a real old piece of junk drop $100 bucks on a decent HD and you will see a big difference.

 

[TMPadmin]

I wouldn?t go any lower than 256 on a W2K system. You can do it but it will take its time. You may want to up you swap file I generally partition the hard drive into an OS and Programs drives (C and D) then give a 25-30MB Swap on C and for a 128MB ram 128-512. I tend to make them larger than usual depending on the function of the computer...
Check processes under task manager, which will tell you what is chewing up your resources.
Do a Check disk. I've seen bad sectors cause a HD to constantly grind away. Long shot since check disk was only put in for Tech Support Specialists to lessen their call times.
Make sure you are using all MS approved W2K drivers or even go to the device?s manufacturer?s web site and download and install the latest.
Worst case, remove all hardware except your video and ram and see if there is any improvement another long shot but that will narrow down the driver issues.

Hope something here helps
tmpadmin