Hi all.
My work PC is shockingly slow to become responsive on boot up each day. The machine is running XP and first thing this morning for example I loaded up windows and launched outlook which took around 20 minutes with the computer not becoming responsive enough to use for another 30 minutes. This issue affects every PC in my office but no one reports the fault and it's generally accepted that that's just how things are.
I've repeatedly reported the problem to my IT department who have tried various things to fix it without much success (generally playing about with virtual memory settings) but I think the problem lies with the Sophos virus software.
From power up the hdd light is constantly on and this morning in the first half hour since powering on the PC there had been 40gb of I/O reads from Savservice.exe (Sophos) even though the program is not carrying out an active scan. Could this be causing the slow performance as the PC's seem to have less than 1gb of memory (897064K) and the peak commit charge for this morning was 1430892K? Is Sophos fighting with windows to use the HDD?
I can't fix the problem as I don't have admin rights but it would be helpful if I could identify the issue before contacting IT again as they don't seem to be able to do so.
Any advice would be appreciated even if it's just to tell me I'm way off the mark with this.
My work PC is shockingly slow to become responsive on boot up each day. The machine is running XP and first thing this morning for example I loaded up windows and launched outlook which took around 20 minutes with the computer not becoming responsive enough to use for another 30 minutes. This issue affects every PC in my office but no one reports the fault and it's generally accepted that that's just how things are.
I've repeatedly reported the problem to my IT department who have tried various things to fix it without much success (generally playing about with virtual memory settings) but I think the problem lies with the Sophos virus software.
From power up the hdd light is constantly on and this morning in the first half hour since powering on the PC there had been 40gb of I/O reads from Savservice.exe (Sophos) even though the program is not carrying out an active scan. Could this be causing the slow performance as the PC's seem to have less than 1gb of memory (897064K) and the peak commit charge for this morning was 1430892K? Is Sophos fighting with windows to use the HDD?
I can't fix the problem as I don't have admin rights but it would be helpful if I could identify the issue before contacting IT again as they don't seem to be able to do so.
Any advice would be appreciated even if it's just to tell me I'm way off the mark with this.