XFree speed problems with W2k

[Koos Vriezen]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, PD Dr. Edward Wornar wrote:

> > On W2k it takes minutes to get de xdm login screen, while eating a lot of 
> > CPU time. Everyting you do from then is slow and CPU expensive.
> > The W2k boxes have SP2 installed.
> 
> What is SP2? I have experienced speed problems with win98 which went away
> after 
> - disabling virus scanners running in background like McAffee
> - disabling ATI Graphic utilities (disable and remove from registry)
>   which do next to nothing but eat up to 85% of the resources.

Thanks, it was Norten AV's auto protect. Funny, only W2k suffers from it.

BTW, SP2 comes from W2ksp2.exe of 103 Mb (don't ask me more).

Regards,

Koos Vriezen