Thanks for the tips - I shall try converting & also getting Control Panel to rebuild itself. I frequently use HD Valet &/or EasyCleaner & Diskeeper Lite to ditch junk files & old reg entries. No other system changes that I know of (barring something kids haven't told me about!).
Dave
I thought I'd read (several years ago, admittedly) that NT needed about 10MB in FAT on bootdrive. If not, I'd love to convert and consolidate several 2.046 MB FAT drives to bigger NTFS partitions
When booting, it boots as it should to desktop, but hangs for about 5 minutes until it completely opens a separate window with the empty directory L: Program. Then, any attempt at accessing a file in My Computer takes ages. It also takes about 5 min. for the icons in Control panel to show up...
Boot drive has approx. 175 MB free out of 2,046 (FAT, as are drives D& E - original HDD). Other logical drives on 2nd HDD are ~20MB, ~50% free and NTFS. Page files are 10MB on C: and 250MB on M:(which is empty except for this portion of page file. I've tried to free up space on boot drive...
NT 4.0 WS, SP6a, IE 6.0, etc., has suddenly become *very* slow (2-5 min.), but only when opening My Computer (including almost any function which tries to access directory trees) or Control Panel. Any application works just fine, including Save As..., and at normal speed. Eventually...
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