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Re: XFree speed problems with W2k
- From: Koos Vriezen <k dot vriezen at vgelder dot com>
- To: "PD Dr. Edward Wornar" <edi at serbski-institut dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:21:47 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: XFree speed problems with W2k
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, PD Dr. Edward Wornar wrote:
> > On W2k it takes minutes to get de xdm login screen, while eating a lot of
> > CPU time. Everyting you do from then is slow and CPU expensive.
> > The W2k boxes have SP2 installed.
>
> What is SP2? I have experienced speed problems with win98 which went away
> after
> - disabling virus scanners running in background like McAffee
> - disabling ATI Graphic utilities (disable and remove from registry)
> which do next to nothing but eat up to 85% of the resources.
Thanks, it was Norten AV's auto protect. Funny, only W2k suffers from it.
BTW, SP2 comes from W2ksp2.exe of 103 Mb (don't ask me more).
Regards,
Koos Vriezen