3 Steps to Troubleshooting Device Drivers

摘要

I'm waiting for an application to start..again. As I stare at the hourglass on my Windows XP desktop, I wonder what is slowing things down this time. I press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up Windows Task Manager and click the Processes tab. I'm ready to kill the offending process, but I find nothing but the usual System Idle Process at the top of the list. Over time, Windows system performance tends to degrade. Many performance problems can be resolved by eliminating unnecessary programs from startup, defragmenting the hard disk, and cleaning the registry. In my case, however, none of these actions worked. I don't usually get into desktop support issues but since it was my desktop, I was determined to find and resolve the problem.