Windows Xp PRO Problems

...if you say so ...dont want to give it another go?

there is more than one profile and both do the same

nothing from diags(windows diags) going to try hdd manufacturer diag

512MB RAM

psychic skills...umm...hmmm.... ok....ermm..

inconsistent?

so anything in the event viewer??

Task manager???

did you try and disable the AV...did it improve any???

512 is not enough ram to run XP...well

Its probably paging alot...slowing the machine down...and if the hardrive is going then it will get really slow as it will have issues writing ...should show up in the event log though


MLF

By @ n3w c0mp00ter

I think I read somewhere that notebook HDD have special on-board controller memory or a partition where it stores "BAD Block" information. Why some have 8+ megabytes which could be shared memory. When the memory gets filled, it spends most of its time indexing what is good and bad constantly in a multi-threaded OS. Remember the days that you had to do a low-level format using the manufactures recovery tools. Doing a regular format was not good enough. You can check for bad blocks after format.

I tested this theory by imaging a customer's slow HDD and throwing the image on a fresh HDD. Seemed speedier. HP, our service provider, did not like that method under contract since they were always backlogged.