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This takes two forms.
When logging in, login scripts run in little DOS boxes. However, as the DOS boxes appear in the taskbar (with the swishy XP effect) the computer slows right down. Majorly. When I move the mouse, it jumps around the screen at about 1fps. The also is true for the first time I load IE6.
When copying data to zip disks (about 40MB, usually), the system locks up for ~40 minutes until the data is copied.
These are school PCs (I hate zip disks, but it''s all we have), and is the only place where I''ve seen this. On our own network the students built, we don''t have these problems; the zip drives are fine, XP is blazingly responsive.
Could it be that disk cacheing is switched off? That''s the only thing I can think of...