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Is It Just Me
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:25 pm
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:11 pm
by Lobo
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
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 4:59 pm
by TruckerT
Lobo, does that work in Windows 2000 Pro also???
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 5:19 pm
by mccoffee
it should work in 2k
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 11:36 pm
by wareagle
For W2K go to command prompt and type sfc/scannow and It will ask for W2K disk.
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:58 am
by Ferradine
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?
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 4:48 am
by V_LESTAT
holy cow guys, can they do that ? not give the man a Windows CD ?
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:42 am
by Lobo
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:09 pm
by Ferradine
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.
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:19 pm
by Lobo
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:22 pm
by Lobo
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:45 pm
by Ferradine
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
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:48 pm
by Lobo
I don't know?
Re: Is It Just Me
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:52 pm
by takahita
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.
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:53 pm
by Lobo
That is weird, no disk I just don't know, maybe if you uninstall SP1 then reinstall it
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 2:31 am
by Ferradine
Yeah IBM uses the f11 function to install and reinstall windows
Here
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 7:13 am
by mnosteele52
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.
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:00 am
by takahita
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.
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:14 pm
by Ferradine
I guess I could use a little more ram, but I can go in safemode and have litterally the same problem.
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:16 pm
by Ferradine
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?