Guest Susan Trott Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Our XP workstation running SP 2 has started slowing significantly since the last update. Today it hangs when we go to My Computer, but it doesn't when I launch other software. Last week it started having difficulty with 51% memory usage and I was unable to determine what was taking up the memory. We have 4GB memory on the system, running a 500GB OS drive on a P4 Duo Core 2 system. This workstation serves as our peer-to-peer file server and has three data drives all 500 GB as well as an outboard 500GB Maxtor drive for backups. We have had a number of problems with this machine - including hard drive suddenly failing for no reason. Could all this be related? Thanks in advance for any advice provided.
Guest Allan Posted June 22, 2008 Posted June 22, 2008 Re: Win XP hanging when I go to "My Computer" "Susan Trott" <Susan Trott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8D653D94-9DDB-4712-B57E-8C7D3315CD9A@microsoft.com... > Our XP workstation running SP 2 has started slowing significantly since > the > last update. Today it hangs when we go to My Computer, but it doesn't when > I > launch other software. Last week it started having difficulty with 51% > memory > usage and I was unable to determine what was taking up the memory. > We have 4GB memory on the system, running a 500GB OS drive on a P4 Duo > Core > 2 system. This workstation serves as our peer-to-peer file server and has > three data drives all 500 GB as well as an outboard 500GB Maxtor drive for > backups. We have had a number of problems with this machine - including > hard > drive suddenly failing for no reason. Could all this be related? Thanks in > advance for any advice provided. Try running hardware diagnostics programs. http://www.tufftest.com/ (free/no cost version is available) -- Allan
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