A couple of the clone workstations are slowing down during the day. They are running Win98SE, Outlook (Exchange), Office, and a proprietory software to track orders. The server is NT4.0-SP6a; Exchange 5. I am at a lose as to how to go about trouble shooting. Theworkstations have 96 MB RAM so I can't imagine the RAM is the problem. They all have mapped network drives.<br>Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Windows 98 SE slowing down
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Karl Blessing
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depends on the task, in any case my personal preference I dont like anything lower than 128Meg rams on the win98 machiens, but thats just me, usally win98 cant run great after staying on more than a day or two, also might want to have people run defrag weekly, fragmentations can definitly slow things down, also what kind of workload are these machiens getting through out the day? <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href= </a><br>Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)<br>
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I don't think the work load is outrageous. The system has 128 MB RAM. Do you think the Windows 98 defrag app is sufficient or are there better ones out there?<br><br>In a somewhat related matter: another computer failed when attempting to defrag. It also failed at DIskFix because of a problem with the C: drive. Can I assume that the hard drive is toast?<br><br>Thanks!!
You can't assume that the drive is toast becuase defrag failed, try running scandisk on the drive.<br><br>I agree with Karl, windows doesn't preform well if left on for more then a day or so.<br><br>In addition windows 98 has the task scheduler built into it, use it for weekly defrags. This may help out. Also suggest to the users that if the computers start to slow down to much, simple reboot them when they have 5 or 10 minutes to spare.<br><br>Where I work now, they used to run 98 to utilize the proprietary software but it crashed way to often and was generally very unstable. They changed over to NT and had no problems since then. I would recomend going to NT if that is not a problem, because NT doesn't have the memory or stability issues that 98 does.<br><br> <p>Troy Williams B.Eng.<br><a href=mailto:fenris@hotmail.com>fenris@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>
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in a developement area like myself, we want to keep our OS consistant with our customers , so if they have an error, we can at least regenerate it, or at least prevent it, by catching it ahead of time, I myself as far as defrag goes, prefer Norton SpeedDisk as my Defragger. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href= </a><br>Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)<br>
I agree with you Karl, in a development area you should have the same O/S as the customer, or at least have one computer with it for testing and debugging. I know where I work is not a development area and having problems with the O/S gives alot of people headaches including myself. Now NT is far from perfect but I find it works better on a production end when you need the computers to be fast and realiable when you have ten or so customers lined up waiting impatiently.<br><br>I too like norton speed disk, but in a pinch go with what is free. Besides getting a copy for each machine could be expensive. <p>Troy Williams B.Eng.<br><a href=mailto:fenris@hotmail.com>fenris@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>
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I have several clients and the one that is having the most workstation problems uses clones which were built by one of their employees. I am a little gun-shy of installing NT on clones. If they were Dells or Compaqs or other reliable brand names I think I would be less hesitant. What's the word on Windows ME? Is it more stabel that SE?
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What is a "clone", Billy? I was under the impression that all PCs not carrying the IBM brand is a clone. I have seen some branded clones that are real dogs; always slow and no upgrade path. I have always defined my needs clearly and gone to an OEM who has assembled to meet those needs, without hassle. In any event, slowing down is caused either by the OS or application, and will happen whether it's an IBM, branded clone, or non-branded clone.
Karl Blessing
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far as WinME goes, it has crashed in more games than in Win98(non-SE) as far as performance goes, many benchmarks shows that WinME offers no performance improvement over Win98, it's basically exactly the same as 98, except it has some visual tweaks to make it look a lil more like Win2k, some memory management is said to be better, and it has a couple features like system recovery, if you just want small features go for it, but if you are expecting, "more Stable, faster..." it's not even that. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href= </a><br>Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)<br>
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