On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, PD Dr. Edward Wornar wrote: > > 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.
Thanks, it was Norten AV's auto protect. Funny, only W2k suffers from it. BTW, SP2 comes from W2ksp2.exe of 103 Mb (don't ask me more). Regards, Koos Vriezen
