slow performance

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Hi

Please see if the following link helps:

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

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Will Denny
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"Klaus Langelüddeke" <Klaus Langelüddeke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Hello,
>
> i have a Dell Dimension 8300 running Windows XP Home.
>
> All seems well, unless more than one application has disk io. In this case
> all operations seems to run endless.
>
> Example: I make a daly backup to another pc. In this backup just a lot of
> files are copied over the network. The file copying process is running on
> the
> remote machine. The aquiered network bandwidth is about 1 to 2 MB/s.
>
> While running this backup no interactive working on the pc is possible,
> because a simple open of a word document can take up to 2 minutes.
>
> Any ideas!?
>
> Thanks
>
> Klaus Langelüddeke