re: Many machines slowing down lately, why?
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 8:39 am
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Posted by dennis
(1 messages posted)
One other possibility - I hate to admit it, but sometimes all the clutter, caches,
and generic bloat we see on a Windows platform actually serves a purpose.
In this case, it sounds like many of your users are probably heavy internet browsers.
As such, many of the sites they visit are probably glitzy news and social networking
sites. In the first few days that they get their newly refurbished system back it
has to work a lot harder, downloading all the graphical "junk" that make a modern
web page look so pretty.
All those background images, icons, banners, logos, headers, footers, emoticons,
etc., etc., all have to be downloaded again because you thoughtfully emptied their
trash. And even if your systems have great bandwidth and all the .gifs, .jpgs, and
scripts may individually be small, there are a lot of them. Furthermore, many of
them are probably coming from 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th-party sites and when you have
that many links in a row there's bound to be a traffic jam somewhere.
In short, I suspect that your users will probably stop complaining after a few days
as they will have visited their favorite sites a few times and their browsers will
be able to pull most of the graphics they need from the cache. If people continue
to complain I suggest that you casually say something like, "Yeah, I've noticed the
slowdowns myself and think it is caused by too many people surfing to non work-related
sites. If I keep getting complaints I might have to track down the worst abusers
and have their managers reprimand them for misuse of company time." I bet the complaints
stop quickly.
On Friday, July 25, 2008 at 8:35 am, William Mowbray wrote:
>Dave: One thing I fogot to mention or ask. When you set these people up on AVG,
do
>you set it to run automatically at a specified time? If AVG is running in the background
>then other operations on the computer will most certainly be much slower.
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