Xp PC extra slow...

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Hi everyone! I have a dual boot pc (XP/7) and gradually xp has become super slow at everything. That includes booting(about 7 min to stabilize), opening programs, opening browser, everything.
I checked and double checked for malaware and viruses and found nothing, That includes malawarebytes, nod32, kaspersky and more.
Any ideas? I already used Ccleaner, and checked what's running in the background with msconfig.
Many thanks

PS Hardware seems ok since when booted at win7 everything is fine! (Knock wood)
 
HDD. Defragged it to no avail...Even defragment took 1 whole day to complete...
I thought about reinstall and it does seem the logical solution BUT ... but i have MBR in XP drive so in order to keep having dual boot i must move it to the other HDD (the one with Win7) and then format and reinstall. And problem is i'm a bit afraid to do this...And not sure how to do it or how safe is it...
 
Sometimes when a machine starts to slow down its a sign of failing HD. Make a back up then test the drive. Boot the machine on a difference disk see is that better.
 
there's no reason at all now for anyone to still be using windows xp or vista, and later next year same reply for windows 7 even, all can be done on win 8.1 and with win 10 coming out soon next year, that will be going as well, all support dos still even with programs, so come out of the dark and into the light
 
zakblood said:
there's no reason at all now for anyone to still be using windows xp or vista, and later next year same reply for windows 7 even, all can be done on win 8.1 and with win 10 coming out soon next year, that will be going as well, all support dos still even with programs, so come out of the dark and into the light
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Wut.

The only unsupported version is XP. Vista has just under three years of extended support remaining.
 
bledd. said:
What do you need XP for on there?

If it's a certain program, then use virtual box
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I 'd like to have 2 machines, so dual boot is a convenience. One for e-banking and the other for internet browsing etc Games may be on both.
Would a 7?7 dual boot be possible? One "clean" and the other for everything else? Would you recomend it? Can it be done with the same Installation disc?
 
SOLVED!!!
I'm writing this in hope that it will help someone, somewhere.
It was a little thing very few people seem to be aware of. After your DVD makes 6 mistakes when reading a disc, the controller resets to a more primitive form called PIO (when before was DMA). This affects everything connected with the same cable and not only the DVD! You can and should check it from device manager, IDE controller, advanced settings. If you see PIO is bad news. Then just follow instuctions from this link and you are good to go!

http://winhlp.com/node/10

;)
 
zer said:
SOLVED!!!
I'm writing this in hope that it will help someone, somewhere.
It was a little thing very few people seem to be aware of. After your DVD makes 6 mistakes when reading a disc, the controller resets to a more primitive form called PIO (when before was DMA). This affects everything connected with the same cable and not only the DVD! You can and should check it from device manager, IDE controller, advanced settings. If you see PIO is bad news. Then just follow instuctions from this link and you are good to go!

http://winhlp.com/node/10

;)
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Nice find, though I can't remember you mentioning it being an IDE drive? I always kept my hard disks and Optical drives on separate channels back when I used IDE so I never had this issue.

But nice to know you sorted it. :)
 
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