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Of course XP bogs down, but WHY?

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thatbox

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Just finished a night of massive photoshopping (120MB+ PSD files, I'm sure you've done stuff more massive, but it's huge for my PC), and as always Windows is running like a lame scarecrow, even after the page file has gone back down to a normal level (from 450MB to ~120MB). I just want to know WHY it remains slow even after I'm all done. Can anybody tell me?
[1600+, 512MB PC2100, 30GB ATA-133 OS HDD]
 
Windows probably won't release the memory so it can start quicker next time. This is typical of Windows. It's a lot better in XP than any other Windows version.
 
Try these solutions...

1. Disable the Indexing Service. Start>Run>Type: services.msc>Find: Indexing Service>Right Click: Properties>Startup Type: Disabled. Disabling this will force Windows not to track file usage and Microsoft has admitted that this degrades performance.
2. Disable System Restore! This will not only free up a lot of hard drive space but your computer wont always be making new restore points and sapping resources.
3. Force Windows to unload all software DLL's when it is finished with them. See here. (This is basically what Bad_Dude's solution does except without the restart.)

-Por
 
Wouldnt just logging off and computer and logging back in fix all memory leaks and such? that usually works for me when i notice windows XP is getting slow..which is almost never
 
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