Re: OT--sluggish partitions

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Jordan,

≪the one much lower
down on the drive has real problems.  It boots up but runs
so slowly -- and with so much *unnecessary* disk access --
as to be unusable.  For example, it might take Xy 5 minutes
to come up, after it is invoked.  When that happens with
things that are really light weight, like FreeCell or
Notepad, it's clearly a major problem.  However, if I leave
this W2K running for an hour or so and then return to the
computer, it will mostly run O.K. until I power down.
That seems very strange to me !≫

Maybe it's the dreaded Explorer memory leak. Open the Windows task
manager and kill the Explorer.exe process. This will temporarily blank
your desktop. Don't panic. Restart the explorer.exe using the "New Task"
 button in task mgr (see screen shot, connect the dots). This is a shot
in the dark. If that doesn't cure you're sluggish partition, I've no
idea what else to try.

If it takes ages to power down, then you may have a hive cleanup
problem. This is a known bug, solvable with a freeware patch from MS.