Is It Just Me

Ferradine · Post by **Ferradine** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:25 pm

I notice one thing really annoying about xp home. The fact that when I right click on mydesktop for the context menu it take a good 2-4seconds is there anyway to change this. The right click anywhere else is fine an in all other old versions of windows it was instantaneous.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:11 pm

See if you are missing any files:

Put XP disk in, click on exit when it comes up, leave disk in, you may be missing critical system files, type in RUN box sfc /scannow and click OK. (Space between c and /) Takes about 10 minutes

TruckerT · Post by **TruckerT** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 4:59 pm

Lobo, does that work in Windows 2000 Pro also???

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 5:19 pm

it should work in 2k

wareagle · Post by **wareagle** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 11:36 pm

For W2K go to command prompt and type sfc/scannow and It will ask for W2K disk.

Ferradine · Post by **Ferradine** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:58 am

Unfortunatley I don't have the Windows XP disk, I own and IBM which incorperates the winxp files on a hidden partition on the hardrive that I have no access to unless I reformat my hardrive. When I did the scan it came up with a lot of corrupt files requiring the windows xp disk, is there anything else I can do?

V_LESTAT · Post by **V_LESTAT** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 4:48 am

holy cow guys, can they do that ? not give the man a Windows CD ?

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:42 am

Trucker T,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;q222471

Ferradine · Post by **Ferradine** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:09 pm

Would it help if I have a folder in my Root Drive called I386 with all windows drivers, it was something IBM put on my root probally because they were not giving people the CD.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:19 pm

See if any of your missing files are here:

http://dll.yaroslavl.ru/index.php3?in_char=M

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:22 pm

Or:

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index.shtml

Ferradine · Post by **Ferradine** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:45 pm

but when I do the scan it doesnt let me know what I am missing just says insert disk. would I have to do a manual overide on the missing files

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:48 pm

I don't know?

takahita · Post by **takahita** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:52 pm

Originally posted by Ferradine
I notice one thing really annoying about xp home. The fact that when I right click on mydesktop for the context menu it take a good 2-4seconds is there anyway to change this. The right click anywhere else is fine an in all other old versions of windows it was instantaneous.

I have Xp home as well and I have the same problem. Although, I am not sure it is a problem since it has happened even after a reinstall.

How much RAM do you have? I am sure that is my problem since I only have 128 MB.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:53 pm

That is weird, no disk I just don't know, maybe if you uninstall SP1 then reinstall it

Ferradine · Post by **Ferradine** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 2:31 am

Yeah IBM uses the f11 function to install and reinstall windows

Here

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 7:13 am

Ferradine your profile says you have only 128MB of RAM? That is nowhere near enough to run XP efficiently, XP is a resource HOG upgrade it to atleast 256MB or even better 384-512MB, you will think you have a new pc. Also what is running in the background? All you really need running full-time is your firewall and AV app.

takahita · Post by **takahita** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:00 am

Again, I don't think it is a problem, but only a shortage of resources because it takes that long for me too the FIRST time, but it pops right up the second time. I guess that is because it was put into cache of something.

The creator of this thread and I simply have a shortage of system resources in my opinion and I don't think a reinstall is necessary.

Ferradine · Post by **Ferradine** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:14 pm

I guess I could use a little more ram, but I can go in safemode and have litterally the same problem.

Ferradine · Post by **Ferradine** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:16 pm

Interesting.... I opened task manager and made sure nothing is running that shouldnt be. I go to the performance tab and right click on my desktop CPU usage Goes to an instant 100% and ram doesnt even move?

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