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Old 15-12-2009, 05:45 PM
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kinetic (Steve)
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Help with Win XP laptop problem.

Hi,

Hopefully someone can help me with an XP laptop
which 2 nights ago has become almost frozen!

I was using it as remote desktop to the dome PC and
after capturing a set I went outside and logged on to
the outside PC to process the images.

I left the inside lappy running for probably an hour and when I came
back inside it was in power saving screen saver XP mode.

But nothing would rouse it so I did a reboot.
Nothing abnormal so far, but on reboot, XP was verrrrry slow.
Any action/click would take a good 5 mins to happen.
Ctrl-alt-del showed running tasks and nothing was hogging
the system except for the usual stuff...98% system idle process etc.

A few more cold boots, warm boots...no change , a very sluggish windows.

I can still get into safe mode, but also same sluggishness.
I can run AVG...still sluggish.
Any advice appreciated. I think a windows system file is corrupted or
something but I don't want to do a complete reload because I will lose
all of my image folders and imaging history etc.

Steve

Last edited by kinetic; 15-12-2009 at 05:57 PM.
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