microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain

What you have described is not necessarily the sign of a problem.
Disabling write caching can lead to incomplete writes.

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

C.T. wrote:
> I've been noticing that my computer is accessing things a bit slowly.
> Sometimes it takes a second or two to switch applications and bring up
> menus. After some use it can slow down much more than that.
>
> I have just disabled write caching and things have speeded up
> considerably. Is this a sign of a deep seated problem?
>
> I have a 1.8Ghz processor and 768MB of ram.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
> C.T.