Re: How to turn on/off Oracle 8i for Windows 2000 Pro?

W2K does more in the background ( to allow for recovery for instance and to check security ) and in general uses more resources than 98 or ME so it can be a little slower - I usually turn off indexing for most directories, especially those that change contents often..

Karsten Farell <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com> wrote:

>Keith Lee wrote:
>> Karsten:
>> Thank you for the advice. That did the trick!
>> BTW, do you know how to solve this problem?
>> I just installed Windows 2000 Pro with Service Pack 3 on my PC; and, so far so good except for one thing. I
>> notice that some apps don't open as fast they did under Windows 98SE. The best examples are IE 5.5 and any folder
>> window. Forte' Free Agent doesn't close as fast as it used to as well. Any suggestions on how to speed things up?
>> Here is my system:
>> AMD 1.1 GHZ
>> 512 SDRAM 133 MHZ
>> Gigabyte motherboard
>> 60 GB Maxtor ATA 133 hard drive
>> NTFS configured file system (would FAT32 be faster?)
>> Indexing installed
>>
>>
>> Keith Lee
>
>Well, I'm not a Windows geek, but I've noticed the same thing ... but
>it's the difference between my system at work (Win2k Pro) and at home
>(still the old WinME). At home, Explorer (both Windows and IE) pop up
>pretty quickly; at work, they're dogs. At first I thought it might be
>that I needed to defrag my hard disk ... but have you ever tried that
>with the default MS defrag utility? I'd look like one of those Halloween
>ghouls by the time it finished. I did let it run over the weekend once
>... but saw no noticeable speed improvement. So I chalked it up to a
>slow network ... or a slow Dell ... or both. But now that you have the
>trouble too on different hardware, perhaps it's just a Win2k quirk.

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