![]() Things go slowly or not at all until the resource responds or the process times-out. Also try using SpyBot.Īre there invalid mapped network drives? Many many functions stall as the OS queries remote resources. Lots of hog spyware will actually show up there as installed software. Spyware is a biggie, but if you only found tracking cookies with Adaware, that's probably not it. There are ways to clean this up, but 'format c:' is easiest. What OS is she running? 95, 98, and Millenium performance degrades over time due to OS bloat. ![]() She would likely have seen some sort of disk access or data error by now if that was the issue. Having all 20,000 pictures in one folder would definitely be slow in accessing, but considering everything else is slow too, I would say that is probably not the problem. I can't imagine she needs immediate access to every one of them at all times.ġ0GB of free space is plenty. You might suggest she get an external drive or maybe burn some of those pictures to CDs. The need to clean up spyware and the like is of course also a possibility.ĭon't forget, even 3/4 full on a 40GB drive is still a relatively large 10GB of free space. Check here for the solution to that and some others. Windows does some stupid things with NTFS, which can be tweaked, but one thing is that it updates the Last Accessed timestamp on every file in a directory anytime you view the directory. However, the fact that it's made up of 20,000 pictures might make a difference, depending on how they're accessed. On extremely large drives there might be some slight loss of performance due to the amount of address space and the OS caching, but since huge drives tend to be in very fast PCs, the CPU speed kind of hides that sort of thing. The data sitting on the drive doesn't cause any performance degradation that you'd notice.
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