WinXP heavy disk I/O with Antivirus enabled.

[LazyLion]

DDR2-667 SODIMM

Local stores in the vicinity don't have stock and same goes for their suppliers (the usual crowd). I phoned for this about two weeks ago and no go, ja I know I should have ordered online

Will call the local dudes after lunch again.

Thing is it takes ddr2-400 ram but that is very expensive so I'm going for the more common & cheaper ddr2-667 ram which should work by all accounts.

Laptop has to go back to it's owner today or first thing tomorrow morning as I'm leaving for the rest of the week.

OK, I think I have some of that... Pity I can't get it to you now.

I think I have 2 x 512 and 2 x 1024 dimms of DDR2-667

 

[ponder]

OK, I think I have some of that... Pity I can't get it to you now.

I think I have 2 x 512 and 2 x 1024 dimms of DDR2-667

Thanks Gary, will keep it in mind. He will just have to live with it until I get back next week. Doing him a favour anyway so I'm not to concerned.

 

[wetkit]

Well, there you have your 2 problems!!!
1. Memory - way too small, so win is using the swap file a lot.
2. AV - Have a look at the settings and change it so it only scans you e-mail and disable the file/HD access scanning.

 

[kingrob]

Not coming right here. Seeing the laptop only has 256MB of ram shared with video chipset I'm gonna try and throw some ram at it to solve the problem. Only problem is none of the local places seems to have stock, aaarrgggghhhhhh.

OUCH!!!

I did a XP SP3 install on a laptop with 256MB RAM.....took more than 2 hours.

Never again.

 

[ponder]

2. AV - Have a look at the settings and change it so it only scans you e-mail and disable the file/HD access scanning.

Not keen on doing that. It's only the startup that takes long. Once it has settled the it's pretty snappy.