Do the "slow" machines have extra s/w installed on them? I would imagine additional drivers, and more "tinkering" type of users will usually end up with slower machines.... Start with the obvious - amount of ram, free disk space, c...@p in to the temp directory, temp internet files (if slow i/net performance). If a different user logs in is the machine then "faster", then maybe that suggests a bloated user profile.
________________________________ From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 30 March 2010 17:19 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SPEEDING UP WORKSTATIONS >From time to time, staff members complain that their workstations seem to be running slower. Many times, something as simple as defragmentation results in improvement, but not always. And of course I try to determine if the slowness is accessing the internet, or just accessing files on our servers. We're working on those issues. What concerns me is that as I move around doing updates from time to time, is the fact that while all our workstations are virtually identical configurations, they all do not seem to move equally fast when I do an upgrade locally. This is a small shop, so I am able to remember that it seems that it's usually the same machines that seem to move slower than others, and some even much faster than others when running local updates. Does anyone know of some software that might help me to determine what if any "issues" are slowing down certain machines? If anyone has suggestions as to possible causes and fixes, I'd sure like to have them. Murray This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England & Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: 85 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6PD http://www.qinetiq.com. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
