mine does that, cos its shite, especially when its five and i want to leave work. so i switch it off al the wall. still the frigging thing refuses to break.
how come my computer at home breaks every other week, but the one at work keeps going with out any problems. its getting to the point where im considering sticking a screw driver into it just so the company will have to buy a new one.
Dunno about your company's policies about power off and savings, but I just lock the damn thing down (W2K, not WXP, though) and turn the TV-Like-Thing ("monitor" I think they call it) and speakers off.
Almost zero time spent while both "leaving the office" and "getting back to work". :wink:
Other than that, I think someone here would say 'bin XP and install Linux instead'... :lol:
Dunno about your company's policies about power off and savings, but I just lock the damn thing down (W2K, not WXP, though) and turn the TV-Like-Thing ("monitor" I think they call it) and speakers off.
Almost zero time spent while both "leaving the office" and "getting back to work". :wink:
we get in trouble for that, lots of confidential things on our machines, we have a few passwords to work through to even start to use the pc.
Other than that, I think someone here would say 'bin XP and install Linux instead'... :lol:
The grass is greener on the other side. We use Linux at work, and it's no better than using Windows for the most part. Long logon/logoff times are more likely to be down to poorly implemented networks than anything else, and ridiculous tinfoil hat security procedures can apply to all operating systems. We've got atrocious machine generated passwords that we can't change; so, rather than having to run password cracking programs, any hacker would just need to chance on the right piece of paper that someone's cribbed theirs on.
Anyway, getting back to Chop's problem, is it really 3-4 minutes just for the menu to appear? That's seriously excessive; normally I'd expect a maximum of ten seconds even on a really heavily loaded system that was swapping like crazy. I'd guess that there's probably some ill-behaved application hogging a vital system resource. Try doing a system restore back to a week or so before you first noticed this. Failing that, run msconfig and clear out some of the crud from services and startup. A likely culprit would be your firewall or virus scanner, as they can really clobber system performance if poorly configured.
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how come my computer at home breaks every other week, but the one at work keeps going with out any problems. its getting to the point where im considering sticking a screw driver into it just so the company will have to buy a new one.
Almost zero time spent while both "leaving the office" and "getting back to work". :wink:
Other than that, I think someone here would say 'bin XP and install Linux instead'... :lol:
Regards,
Marcelo.
we get in trouble for that, lots of confidential things on our machines, we have a few passwords to work through to even start to use the pc.
The grass is greener on the other side. We use Linux at work, and it's no better than using Windows for the most part. Long logon/logoff times are more likely to be down to poorly implemented networks than anything else, and ridiculous tinfoil hat security procedures can apply to all operating systems. We've got atrocious machine generated passwords that we can't change; so, rather than having to run password cracking programs, any hacker would just need to chance on the right piece of paper that someone's cribbed theirs on.
Anyway, getting back to Chop's problem, is it really 3-4 minutes just for the menu to appear? That's seriously excessive; normally I'd expect a maximum of ten seconds even on a really heavily loaded system that was swapping like crazy. I'd guess that there's probably some ill-behaved application hogging a vital system resource. Try doing a system restore back to a week or so before you first noticed this. Failing that, run msconfig and clear out some of the crud from services and startup. A likely culprit would be your firewall or virus scanner, as they can really clobber system performance if poorly configured.