[Sussex] XP goes slow - help!

[Dominic Clay]

Difficult to know where the problem may lie, have you tried runing 'ipconfig
/all' when offline and checking to see if it is still trying to connect to
some remote services (gateway, DHCP) also the same principal for it's
routing table.  Try 'route print' and see if the Loopback is there or any
other spurious settings are obvious?

Anyone else???

Dominic

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Harding [mailto:derek at lagham.uklinux.net] 
Sent: 08 January 2003 19:54
To: SLUG
Subject: [Sussex] XP goes slow - help!


Hi,

I'm in the process of converting a small business to open source by
introducing things gradually, with some considerable success! They now have
a stable Linux server handling all the files and print services plus the
usual Internet interfaces.

However, the business in the next door office enticed me to load a USB modem
onto an XP standalone workstation. In the course of this, I had to reinstall
XP! They use Works not Office. Sinc the internet connectivity was achieved,
Works runs dead slow when the machine is _not_ online but reverts to normal
when it is. Works has also been reinstalled.

Coincidently, they have an XP standalone laptop (which I had nothing to do
with) and that, too, has been running Works apps. in reverse when not online
since it was given internet connectivity.

I haven't met this before, I assume that the system is trying to communicate
across the internet and it is the continued effort that slows everything
down. They aren't networked, downgrading is not an option (OpenOffice.org
will be installed in the next week, however!).

So, any ideas how I can turn of the go-slow juice? Crack that and I'm on the
way to a second open-source business client!

P.S. I'm still desparate for 8-12 NICs and a reasonable hub for one of my
pet charities if there are any going!

-- 
Best wishes,
Derek

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