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Re: XFree speed problems with W2k
- From: "PD Dr. Edward Wornar" <edi at serbski-institut dot de>
- To: k dot vriezen at vgelder dot com
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 13:53:12 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: XFree speed problems with W2k
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204041242480.3584-100000@santiago.intern>
> 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.
Hope this helps
Edi