yeah, Steam is a mess. HL2 Ep 1 wasn't so special anyway, I don't think
I'll bother with it any more.
Nope, didn't install any Nero roll-back software that I'm aware of, but Nero
itself seems to carry a lot of bloat. I'll have to check that....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hayes Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:31 PM
Subject: RE: [H] curing system slowdown
Steam is exactly that. A steaming pile of shit. Legal owners of half life
should get the hacked versions that have steam taken out and recompiled -
MUCH faster and no monkey business.
XP doesn't slow down without a logical explanation, your problem should be
fixable. I would first look at basic things like what's loading up in your
msconfig. Check services, startup, and HKLM\...\Run.
You didn't install that roll-back software from nero did you? That may be
messing things up.
From: "Veech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
To: "The Hardware List" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: [H] curing system slowdown
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:48:57 -0700
I'm running XP Pro on a P4 3.0G system, 2G RAM. The thing used to fly,
and boot in about 30 - 40 seconds. Now it's taking about twice as long to
boot, in fact it takes a full two minutes from the time I hit the power
button till the time the hourglass image disappears on the desktop. That
feels like forever.
I've loaded and unloaded a few things recently. One program that may have
been a problem was Half-Life 2 Episode One. It required installing Steam,
a nightmare in itself (in fact, I may quit the HL series because of this
requirement). I installed Nero 6 as well, and for some reason I can't run
more than 3 or 4 operations on it (like copying complete discs from drive
to drive) without it finally freezing up the system and I have to reboot
it. Frustrating!
I did a defrag of the C drive, it helped just a bit. AdAware and SpyBot
come up clean.
So, what's a simple way to fix this? Is it to reinstall XP? Is there a
website or program you guys can recommend that will help me diagnose this
slowdown? Apparently Vista will have an app just for this purpose, but is
there anything available now that does the same thing?
thanks all..
