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| I updated Windows 2000 on a different computer, and now it slowed to a crawl. I'm not positive if that was the cause or not, but it seemed to be the most probable cause.
edit: Sorry, I meant I installed critical updates
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| Did you install SP4? If not you should, it seems to be the best service pack so far for 2K, I have installed it on about 10 of my client's pcs and it has fixed a number of small glitches.
 
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| In which sense do you mean that? Did it become slower booting up, or did the overall performance go down drastically?
I have Windows 2000 on my computer and I agree it's quite a heavy machine (in terms of video editing, not gaming) and Windows 2000 is by far the slowest OS to boot up (got a triple boot to 98, 2K and XP). It was actually very fast in the beginning, but once all the drivers were installed, and some of the programs, it started taking around 60 seconds to boot completely. I installed all updates and patches except for Internet Explorer 6, .Net Framework and WMP9. But once booted up, it's faster than XP and 98.
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| mno: I did already install SP4, and I did not seem to have any problems after that.
Thomas: Sorry for being unclear. When I posted that, I thought it would actually start ... it seems to go especially slowly when booting up, and now it seems to be stuck with a desktop and not going any farther.
I was thinking this problem could be part of this different shell called the "Aston Shell" I was trying on it ... but then again, it even goes slowly at the windows splash screen.
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| You didn't mention this either, but I'll take a shot: did you check in Event Viewer for any error messages?
Also, which programs are set to start up automatically?
(Here, I have the "Windows is starting up..." screen for some 10-15 seconds, then I can log in. This is actually a bit faster compared to other Service Packs I've had in the past.)
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| Whoa ... in the event viewer, I am getting a lot of 'bad block' errors for my hard disk ... huh ... I guess that could be part of it ^_~
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| I guess that could be everything. My previous hard disk had bad sectors allover, causing Windows to slow down enormously too. I had to get another one because the 14 bad blocks were scattered around the whole drive.
You could run chkdsk c: /r but that will only fix the problem temporarily. When it comes to bad sectors, Windows isn't quite clever; say sector 1235 and 1237 are bad, then Windows will still use 1236 and the ones around but being so near of a bad sector will cause it to spread.
You're lucky if the bad sectors are all in one place. You could then make two partitions on your hard drive avoiding the bad sectors.
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| Last night, I decided that that hard drive was small, slow, and old ... I ordered a large, fast, new one ^_^
I might look into trying to use that hard drive as a spare. How do I find out if all the bad sectors are in one place? All of the errors in the event viewer were the same, if that means they are.
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