+1. A scripting of CCleaner and MyDefrag. Also, an odd thing to note, I recently found that resetting to defaults Firefox and then re-enabling my desired Add-ons and Plugins gave Firefox new found life:
Start Firefox in Safe Mode -> Check the Reset to Defaults box Other than that, I would do some application inventorying on the effected systems for comparisons, and start there. -- ME2 On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:24 AM, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > CCleaner seems to speed slow machines up somewhat. We deploy it on lots of > our client-end systems. > > > On 30 March 2010 17:18, Murray Freeman <mfree...@alanet.org> wrote: > >> From time to time, staff members complain that their workstations seem >> to be running slower. Many times, something as simple as defragmentation >> results in improvement, but not always. And of course I try to determine if >> the slowness is accessing the internet, or just accessing files on our >> servers. We're working on those issues. What concerns me is that as I move >> around doing updates from time to time, is the fact that while all our >> workstations are virtually identical configurations, they all do not seem to >> move equally fast when I do an upgrade locally. This is a small shop, so I >> am able to remember that it seems that it's usually the same machines that >> seem to move slower than others, and some even much faster than others when >> running local updates. Does anyone know of some software that might help me >> to determine what if any "issues" are slowing down certain machines? If >> anyone has suggestions as to possible causes and fixes, I'd sure like to >> have them. >> >> >> *Murray* >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
