Friday 9 November 2018

Windows XP: Why the machine slow for a minute when I put my machine for some time?


I have a question for windows behavior. I was running a bunch of applications in my xp, they run smoothly at that moment. Then I leave my machine alone for some time, say a night, a few hrs, when I come back, the machine will be very slow (loading sth), for a few minutes, then it come smooth finally.


I would like to know why it would slow when I leave the machine idle for some time (surely not hiberate)


What does the windows scheduler do? I guess it is some of the memory allocation problem.


Thanks Kit



Answer



Could be power management turning your hard drives off after 30min, try experimenting with changing those settings, like making them a short time and see if the symptoms happen sooner, and try making them longer and see if the symptoms come in later. See if the symptoms match the time set there. I can't guarantee that that causes that symptom but perhaps it does. You'd find out if you try that test though.


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