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Story: Inspiron owners complain of SP2 slowdown
Posted by: Jim Parker (Friday 3 September 2004, 10:46 PM)
Inspiron XP Service Pack 2 Slowdown Fix
I accidentally stumbled into a fix for the Inspiron slowdown problem, but I'm not sure what the fix really was.
My own machine was slowing down drastically, so I uninstalled and then reinstalled several items, including:
-Client for MS Networks
-QoS Packet Scheduler
-File and Printer Sharing
Plus I Disabled, then re-enabled several Servces, according to a list I found in The Register, which ren an article about security holes in the XP's SP2. After my system was crapped up by the suggestions in Reg's article, I put all those things back in place, and suddenly, my Inspiron was running just fine again.
Somewhere in there, SP2 must have screwed up something, but my mucking around fixed it. No idea which setting did the trick. Maybe y'all can isolate a particular one.
This probably doesn't help a bit, but I didn't change my CPU driver.
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Story: Inspiron owners complain of SP2 slowdown
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I have had a couple of customers who downloaded SP... Anonymous -
I own a Sony and it did got very slow after I'd do... Anonymous
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THERE IS NO PROBLEM HERE. SP2 MAKES SOME ENHANCEME... InspironTech
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Slowdown Fixed!! My Inspiron 1150 also slowe... Marc -
I find this interesting since I have an HP AMD Ath... Anonymous
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Inspiron XP Service Pack 2 Slowdown Fix
I accident... Jim Parker -
Dell proudly recommend Windows XP to customers on... Anonymous
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While, it is terribly unfortunate that there... Adam
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> As such they haven't once publicly ann... Anonymous -
Clue in, folks. Windows is, and will always be, a... Mort Blort
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Have similar system speed loss w/ SP2 been reporte... Larry Buchman
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Like tying a bowling ball to a turtle...
My I... Mike P.
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I thought my new computer was awfully slow! Thus... Anonymous
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I don't have an Inspiron. I built my machine mysel... Gus
