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From: Hector Santos on 20 Feb 2010 09:01
It is also quite possible these are early signs the drive is going
bad. I once lived with a drive that only OE seem to have a problem
with. It got to a point where trying to read mail slowed down the
disk. Over time, other it was slow to I/O and only under certain
apps. Eventually the GPF began to occur with OE only. Running Steve
Gibson's SpinRite found problems, marked out the clusters, and it
would last longer. But eventually it kaputs and storing anything else
need the same spots was no go.

Francois PIETTE wrote:

>>> Look for so called "security product". For example an antivirus
>>> program may
>>> be buggy and tak a lot of time processing the data.
>>> Also have a look at disk fragmentation and bad sectors.
>
>> I do not know about other softwares, but the disk is highly
>> fragmented.
>
> Defragment the disk is then mandatory.
> Having a too much fragmented disk not only result in poor performance
> but may result in a disk which can't no more be defragmented with defrag
> tool and require a full backup/formet/rerstore cycle.
>
>> On the computer experiencing slow response, does other software suffer
>> from
>> the same problem or is this specific to one application ?
>
> You have not answered this one.
>
> --
> francois.piette(a)overbyte.be
> The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare
> The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS)
> http://www.overbyte.be
>



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