Do a DIFF of two different systems to see how much different they are.
Check the registry sizes of both systems, maybe one is blown out. Im assuming you have virus scanners on each system. Maybe one isn't as healthy, or possibly on a different definition. Maybe your not checking like for like - if you look at a system in the morning it might be running a scheduled scan, but another in the afternoon isn't (ie; different workloads.) What does Task Manager say? Do you use WSUS or equivalent and can confirm compared machines are same patch and SP levels. Have both machines got an equivalent (eg; roaming) profile or are you testing with different users between computers? Windows also self-manages a lot of things, registry size, pagefiles etc by default, which could result in performance differences. From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 3:19 AM 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
